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News<\/span><\/p>\nRussell Brand Preemptively Denies "Astonishing" Criminal Allegations Set To Be Published In UK<\/h3>\n<\/article>\n
He claimed that this openness was being “metastasized into something criminal” and suggested that it was a “serious and concerted agenda” to silence him.<\/p>\n Brand has in recent years reinvented himself as a counter-culture guru, who questions mainstream media reporting and endorses conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n “It’s been clear to me, or at least it feels to me, like there’s a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices,” he continued.<\/p>\n “I don’t mind them using my books and my stand-up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.”<\/p>\n Brand claimed that he was aware of witnesses whose evidence “directly contradicts the narrative that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct.”<\/p>\n According to the reports, Brand entered into a relationship with a 16-year-old schoolgirl. In another instance, he was accused by a woman of raping her in his Los Angeles home, <\/p>\n A third woman said Brand sexually assaulted her while she worked with him in Los Angeles <\/p>\n The reports said several others had accused Brand of physical and emotional abuse, sexual harassment and bullying. <\/p>\n Most of the women wanted to remain anonymous. A documentary will be released today on Channel Four’s Dispatches series.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/tucker-2.jpg\")
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