Russell Model was charged with rape and sexual assault in the UK on Friday.
The 49-year-old comic, actor, and podcast host is particularly charged with one rely of rape, one rely of indecent assault, one rely of oral rape, and two counts of sexual assault, in keeping with London’s Metropolitan Police. He’ll seem in court docket on Could 2nd.
A 2023 joint investigation by The Sunday Instances, The Instances, and Channel 4 Dispatches within the UK uncovered allegations of rape, sexual assault, and abuse in opposition to Model, involving 4 ladies in incidents between 1999 and 2012. The Metropolitan Police later launched a felony investigation into Model in late 2023.
“The investigation stays open and detectives ask anybody who has been affected by this case, or anybody who has any data, to come back ahead and communicate with police,” Met Police detective superintendent Andy Furphy stated in a press release on Friday.
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Model has denied any wrongdoing, saying in a press release launched in 2023: “These allegations pertain to the time once I was working within the mainstream, once I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, once 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.”
Model has additionally recommended that the allegations are a part of a coordinated assault in opposition to him over his commentary in opposition to massive pharma and the COVID-19 vaccine.
“To see that transparency metastasized into one thing felony, that I completely deny, makes me query – is there one other agenda at play? I don’t thoughts them utilizing my books and my stand-up to speak about my promiscuous consensual conduct previously. What I significantly refute are these very, very severe felony allegations.”