U.K. police open sexual offences investigation after allegations about Russell Brand

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LONDON — British police have opened a intercourse crimes investigation triggered by information studies about comic Russell Model.

London’s Metropolitan Police power stated Monday that it had “obtained plenty of allegations of sexual offences” after a tv documentary and newspaper investigations. It stated there have been no arrests.

Model, 48, denies allegations of sexual assault made by 4 ladies in a Channel 4 tv documentary and The Occasions and Sunday Occasions newspapers. The accusers, who haven’t been named, embody one who stated she was sexually assaulted throughout a relationship with him when she was 16. One other girl says Model raped her in Los Angeles in 2012.

The police power didn’t identify Model in its assertion, however referred to the latest articles and documentary. It stated detectives have been investigating allegations of “non-recent” sexual offences, each in London and elsewhere.

“We proceed to encourage anybody who believes they might have been a sufferer of a sexual offence, regardless of how way back it was, to contact us,” stated Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy of the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, who’s main the investigation.

A former star of British tv who appeared in a number of Hollywood movies, Model has largely disappeared from mainstream media however has constructed up a big following on-line with movies mixing wellness and conspiracy theories.

Final week YouTube stated it will cease Model from creating wealth from the streaming web site, the place he has 6.6 million subscribers, because of the “severe allegations” towards him.