Russell Brand faces losing around £1million a year after being banned from profiting from videos he posts on YouTube.
Bosses of the social media website suspended his ability to earn cash from posts for “violating our creator responsibility policy”.
It follows the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary in which four women accused the 48-year-old of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.
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Brand denies the claims, saying all his relationships were consensual.
Police are now probing a separate sexual assault allegation against the star in London in 2003.
Industry experts say Brand could have earned around £1m a year posting YouTube videos.
(Image: Russell Brand)
Yesterday, the BBC removed some of his content from their apps.
The corporation is probing allegations about Brand’s time there between 2006 and 2008.
His book publisher has already paused all future projects with him. Last night it emerged Brand appeared to have “liked” a post on X, aka Twitter, taking a swipe at Phillip Schofield.
A user shared a gif of the ex-This Morning host smiling as he seemingly danced, with the caption: “If only #Dispatches.” Brand liked the tweet, posted before the show aired.
(Image: Youtube/ Russell Brand)
Responding to allegations, Brand said: “I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email. One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff like community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel. But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks, often very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.”
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“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies. And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that. Then almost too transparent, and I’m being transparent about it now as well. And to see that transparency metastasised into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question, is there another agenda at play?”
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