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accusations by four women of rape and sexual assaults, as well as emotional abuse, between 2006 and 2013. The allegations were revealed by a joint investigation of The Times, and
Channel4′‘s Dispatch programme. Brand denies the allegations and says his relationships were “always consensual”.During this period Brand also starred in films including Arthur
(2012),
Get Him To The Greek (2010), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) St Trinian’s (2007) and was the subject of a documentary by Ondi Timoner called Brand, A Second Coming, that opened the SXSW festival in 2015. The Times reported that two of the accusers claimed that the incidents occurred in Los Angeles. Two of the accusers reported the incidents occurred in Los Angeles.Today, The Times
said that more women have come forward with allegations about their treatment by Brand since the investigation was published over the weekend.On Friday, before the allegations were published, Brand released a video online where he denied the allegations.
“Amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” Brand said.“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies. And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,” Brand said.“Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.”
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