Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that BBC car picked up a 16 year old from school and took her to Russel Brand’s house.
Brand has added that because he is an “alternative media broadcaster competing with mainstream media”, which critics simply describe as pushing conspiracy theories, the allegations of abuse are a “concerted campaign”.
Since the allegations broke on Saturday (16 September), criticism of Brand’s past behaviour has been discussed widely on social media, including his 2007 radio interview with Jimmy Savile.
Savile died in 2011 and following his death, an investigation into sexual abuse allegations found he had at least 500 victims, a majority of which were children, and potentially included acts of necrophilia with corpses.
As rumours abound about the UK’s Channel 4 Dispatches program tonight at 9pm, a BBC Radio 2 clip has resurfaced of Russell Brand speaking with Jimmy Saville in 2007, and its creepy listening.
During the interview, Brand asks when he can meet Savile, who responds: “If you have got a sister you could meet me by bringing her along. I don’t usually meet fellas but if you have got a sister then that’s OK.”
“Well I haven’t got a sister but I have got a personal assistant and part of her job description is that anyone I demand she greet, meet, massages, she has to do it,” Brand replied.
“She’s very attractive, Jimmy. Would you like her to wear anything in particular Jimmy?”
Helen Berger, who worked as Brand’s personal assistant in 2006 and has labelled him a “narcissist”, told the Times that her being gay was “plus” for management.
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The manager “wanted to make sure that I would be safe. He just wanted a purely platonic situation,” she said.
She added Brand would only wear underwear whilst she worked and he would show off intimate photographs of women with friends.
“I’ve already had one person who’s contacted me talk to me about Brand. There will be numerous other people who are contacting either the authorities or other individuals.
“Russell Brand himself has been very clearly saying that there are things that have happened in the past, he puts it down to promiscuous relationships that he’s had.”
In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, he continued: “There is obviously an issue where consent is the question in point now.
“In the following days or weeks as this unfolds, whether or not the police [decide] to start an investigation – and don’t forget they have to have a complainant for that.
The modern news cycle is brutally quick. On Thursday and Friday, the 90-minute special episode of Channel 4’s investigative documentary strand, Dispatches, which was to air on Saturday night, was trending on social media because of the mystery around it: Channel 4 had declined to offer any information about what it contained. But by the time it did air, we knew exactly what it contained.
The programme is a collaboration between Dispatches and the Sunday Times and, as happens often when a TV show and a newspaper mount a joint investigation, the newspaper went public first. With the online print version published a few hours before broadcast, many viewers found themselves in the unusual position of watching a documentary having already read its key allegations.
Russell Brand interviewed Jimmy Savile.
London’s Metropolitan Police force said that since the allegations were made public it had received “a report of a sexual assault which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003.” That is three years before the earliest of the alleged assaults reported by the media outlets.
The police force said “officers are in contact with the woman and will be providing her with support.” It did not identify the alleged perpetrator as Brand, but referred to the newspaper and TV allegations in its statement. Police urged “anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago it was, to contact us.”
The police force said “officers are in contact with the woman and will be providing her with support.” It did not identify the alleged perpetrator as Brand, but referred to the newspaper and TV allegations in its statement. Police urged “anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago it was, to contact us.”
In a video statement released Friday in response to the media claims, Brand said that his relationships were “always consensual.”
The Times said Monday that more women had contacted the newspaper with allegations against Brand and they would be “rigorously checked.”
Four women are alleging sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013:
One woman alleges that Brand raped her without a condom against a wall in his Los Angeles home. She says Brand tried to stop her leaving until she told him she was going to the bathroom. She was treated at a rape crisis centre on the same day, which the Times says it has confirmed via medical records
A second woman, in the UK, alleges that Brand assaulted her when he was in his early 30s and she was 16 and still at school. She alleges he referred to her as “the child” during an emotionally abusive and controlling relationship. Looking back, she says, he “engaged in the behaviours of a groomer”
A third woman claims that Brand sexually assaulted her while she worked with him in Los Angeles. She alleges she repeatedly told Brand to get off her, and when he eventually relented he “flipped” and was “super angry”. She says he threatened to take legal action if she told anyone else about her allegation
In a video statement released Friday in response to the media claims, Brand said that his relationships were “always consensual.”
The Times said Monday that more women had contacted the newspaper with allegations against Brand and they would be “rigorously checked.”
