Russell Model has been accused of “rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse” in a brand new report by The Sunday Occasions of London.
The joint investigation with The Occasions of London and Channel 4’s documentary group “Dispatches” revealed on Saturday afternoon within the U.Okay. “Dispatches” will air its 90-minute documentary on the allegations on Saturday night on U.Okay. community Channel 4. “5 girls, 4 of whom requested to stay nameless, agreed to share their tales of significant sexual allegations in this system,” stated a rep for the present.
In accordance with The Sunday Occasions, the British comic, who initially discovered fame as a number on MTV U.Okay. earlier than starring in Hollywood movies comparable to “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek,” has been accused of sexual assault by 4 girls between 2006 and 2013.
He was married to singer Katy Perry between 2010 and 2012.
The newspaper reported that one alleged sufferer stated Model assaulted her when she was 16 (he was then in his 30s) throughout a three-month “emotionally and sexually abusive” relationship that included one incident the place he “pressured his penis down her throat,” inflicting her to choke. In one other incident she stated he eliminated a condom throughout intercourse with out her data. The girl additionally stated Model nicknamed her “the kid,” requested her to learn passages from Vladimir Nabokov novel “Lolita” throughout their time collectively and as soon as kissed her mom “on the mouth.”
One other alleged sufferer instructed the outlet she was raped by the comic in his Los Angeles house in 2012 whereas a 3rd, who was working with him in L.A., stated he sexually assaulted her at his West Hollywood house in 2013 and threatened to take authorized motion if she ever spoke concerning the incident publicly.
The Sunday Occasions has anonymized the alleged victims’ names.
Different allegations detailed within the report embody:
A 24-year-old runner claimed Model as soon as “flashed his penis” when she went into his dressing room and “insinuated that she may give him oral intercourse.”
Model’s former private assistant, Helen Berger, instructed the newspaper she witnessed Model displaying “intimate footage of ladies” to his buddies, together with footage of a girl she knew.
A feminine comic stated Model would repeatedly “chew my face” every time she noticed him whereas a male comic, Daniel Slott, instructed the newspaper he was conscious his feminine counterparts had been “warning one another about Russell” for years.
Model, who is because of carry out a stay present on the Wembley Park Theatre in London on Saturday night, pre-emptively denied the allegations in a YouTube video titled “So, This Is Taking place,” which he posted on Friday night U.Okay. time. Within the video Model stated he “completely refutes” the “litany of astonishing, reasonably baroque, assaults.”
“These allegations pertain to the time after I was working within the mainstream media, after I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, after I was within the films. And as I’ve written about extensively in my books I used to be very, very promiscuous. Now throughout that point of promiscuity the relationships I had had been completely all the time consensual. I used to be all the time clear about that then — virtually too clear — and I’m being clear about it now as effectively.”
The Sunday Occasions reported that after offering Model’s attorneys with the allegations they stated they had been “not ready” to answer and that additional communication went unanswered.
Model has encountered quite a few controversies throughout his profession. In his quite a few autobiographical works he has described how he was fired from his MTV internet hosting gig after coming to work the day after 9/11 dressed as Osama bin Laden and bringing his drug seller to the studio. He has additionally written at size about his prolific drug use and intercourse life.
In 2002 Model was reportedly sacked from U.Okay. radio station Xfm for studying pornographic materials on air and in 2008 he was suspended after which resigned from his BBC Radio 2 present after he left voice mails for “Fawlty Towers” actor Andrew Sachs saying he’d had a sexual relationship with Sachs’ granddaughter.
In 2019, Model appeared as a celeb visitor on a spin-off model of “The Nice British Bake-Off” throughout which he cooked biscuits within the form of his spouse’s nether areas.
Over latest years, Model has moved away from mainstream media and leisure, as an alternative reinventing himself as a “wellness guru” through direct-to-audience engagement by means of social media and stay occasions, the place he often assaults the media and political institutions. He has been accused of peddling conspiracy theories and COVID-19 misinformation.
Selection has reached out to Model and his reps, previous and current, for remark.
Learn Model’s full YouTube denial under:
“This isn’t the same old kind of video we make on this channel the place we critique, assault and undermine the information in all its corruption, as a result of on this story I’m the information.
I’ve acquired two extraordinarily disturbing letters — or a letter and an electronic mail — one from a mainstream media TV firm, one from a newspaper, itemizing a litany of extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults in addition to some fairly silly stuff like my Group Pageant needs to be stopped, that I shouldn’t be capable to assault mainstream media narratives on this channel, however amidst this litany of astonishing, reasonably baroque, assaults are some very severe allegations that I completely refute.
These allegations pertain to the time after I was working within the mainstream, after I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, after I was within the films. And as I’ve written about extensively in my books I used to be very, very promiscuous. Now throughout that point of promiscuity the relationships I had had been completely all the time consensual. I used to be all the time clear about that then — virtually too clear — and I’m being clear about it now as effectively.
And to see that transparency metastasized into one thing prison that I completely deny makes me query is there one other agenda at play, notably once we’ve seen coordinated media assaults earlier than like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medication that the mainstream media didn’t approve of and we noticed a spate of headlines from media retailers the world over utilizing the identical language. I’m conscious that you simply guys have been saying within the feedback for some time ‘Be careful, Russell, they’re comingfor you, you’re getting too near the reality. Russell Model didn’t kill himself.’
I do know {that a} yr in the past there was a spate of articles: ‘Russell Model’s a conspiracy theorist,’ ‘Russell Model’s proper wing.’ I’m conscious of reports media making cellphone calls, sending letters to individuals I do know, for ages and ages. It’s been clear to me — or at the very least it feels to me –like there’s a severe and concerted agenda to regulate these sort of areas and these sort of voices and I imply my voice alongside along with your voice.
I don’t thoughts them utilizing my books and my stand as much as discuss my promiscuous, consensual conduct up to now. What I critically refute are these very, very severe prison allegations. Additionally it’s value mentioning that there are witnesses whose proof instantly contradicts the narrative that these two mainstream media retailers try to assemble apparently in what appears to me to be a coordinated assault.
Now I don’t need to get into this any additional due to the intense nature of the allegations however I really feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they’re working very carefully collectively. We’re clearly going to look into this matter as a result of it’s very, very severe. Within the meantime I would like you to remain shut, keep awake, however extra essential than any of that when you can please keep free.”
