A police squad set up to investigate historic sex crimes after the Jimmy Savile scandal is working on the Russell Brand case.
A spokesman for the Hydrant Programme said it was supporting the Metropolitan Police probe into Brand.
Four women appeared in Channel 4’s Dispatches accusing the comedian of predatory and abusive behaviour – including rape and sexual assault – at the height of his career. On Thursday (September 21), A second woman in America came forward to accuse the comedian of exposing himself to her in 2008 and laughing about it minutes later on his radio show.
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Brand, 48, denies all the allegations and claims he is the victim of a “co-ordinated attack” by the media.
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The Met has said it is investigating a sexual assault allegation against the star in London in 2003 reported to them after the documentary was screened.
A spokesman for the Hydrant Programme said: “We are working with the Metropolitan Police in support of their response to recent allegations.”
It comes after the news that Brand faces losing around £1million a year after being banned from profiting from videos he posts on YouTube.
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Bosses of the social media website suspended his ability to earn cash from posts for “violating our creator responsibility policy”.
Industry experts say Brand could have earned around £1m a year posting YouTube videos. The BBC has also 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. Earlier this wek, it emerged Brand appeared to have “liked” a post on X, aka Twitter, taking a swipe at Phillip Schofield.
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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.
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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