London — Police in London on Monday stated that they had acquired a report of alleged sexual assault after media revelations concerning the British comic and actor Russell Brand. A joint investigation by The Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4 tv on Saturday printed claims from four women of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse towards Brand.

Brand, 48, strongly denied the allegations, stemming from incidents that are stated to have taken place between 2006 and 2013, in a video assertion launched Friday night time.

He maintained that his relationships have all the time been “consensual,” even throughout a interval when he admitted being “very, very promiscuous.”

The Times and Sunday Times on Monday stated extra girls had come ahead to make claims about his habits within the early 2000s, with out giving additional particulars.

The revelations come amid criticism of how sexual assault instances are dealt with within the prison justice system within the U.Ok., in addition to how media organizations have dealt with related accusations of inappropriate habits by big-name stars. One of the organizations hit hardest by such allegations has been the Metropolitan Police itself, after a serving officer was convicted of the 2021 rape and homicide of a younger lady in London.

In a brief assertion, the Metropolitan Police stated: “On Sunday September 17, the Met received a report of a sexual assault which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003,” including that police have been “in contact with the woman and will be providing her with support.”

The power stated it had been in contact with the newspapers and the documentary makers at Channel 4 “to ensure that anyone who believes they have been the victim of a sexual offense is aware of how to report this to the police.”

Brand’s former employers the BBC and Channel 4, in addition to a manufacturing firm, have launched their very own investigations into the claims.

According to the newspapers and the documentary, Brand allegedly raped one lady in his Los Angeles residence. Another claims that he assaulted her throughout a three-month relationship when she was 16 and nonetheless at college.

Brand turned recognized internationally as the previous husband of pop star Katy Perry after forging a profession as a humorist, with near-the-knuckle routines, typically about medicine and intercourse.

He offered on tv actuality reveals and performed rock star Aldous Snow within the 2008 movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and its 2010 sequel “Get Him to the Greek.”

In current years he has grow to be a distinguished conspiracy theorist, utilizing his YouTube channel to query the COVID-19 pandemic to his almost seven million followers. He has argued that the worldwide pandemic was a cover-up by the worldwide elite to implement radical social change.