LONDON: The BBC and Channel 4, former employers of British actor and comedian Russell Brand, said Sunday they were investigating claims of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse over a seven-year period, which the 48-year-old has denied.
Four women have alleged sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, when Brand was at the height of his fame working as a presenter for BBC Radio 2, Channel 4 and acting in Hollywood movies, a joint media investigation said Saturday.The broadcasters BBC and Channel 4, along with the production company Banijay UK, said Sunday that they would open internal inquiries into the claims.'We are urgently looking into the issues raised,' a BBC spokesperson told AFP.
'He said he had received letters from a TV company and a newspaper listing 'a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.''Amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,' he said in the video clip posted online.
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