Detectives investigating historic allegations of sexual assault in opposition to Russell Model have requested prosecutors to think about bringing prices in opposition to the actor and comic.
It follows a joint investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Sunday Occasions, printed in September 2023, through which 4 ladies accused Model of offences together with rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse.
The allegations date again to between 2006 and 2013, when the 49-year-old was on the top of his fame.
He has denied any wrongdoing and insisted his sexual relationships have been “completely all the time consensual”.
Following the preliminary media studies, the Metropolitan police confirmed it had “obtained quite a lot of allegations of sexual offences in London” and elsewhere within the nation.
On Saturday it stated “a person in his 40s had been interviewed by officers beneath warning on three separate events”.
“A file of proof has now been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service for his or her consideration,” it stated.
On the time of the alleged offences, Model was working as a presenter on BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 and as an actor in Hollywood, showing in movies together with Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
One lady informed Dispatches that Model entered a relationship together with her when he was 31 and he or she was 16.
She alleged that the connection, which lasted three months, was emotionally abusive and controlling and that Model would confer with her as “the kid”. One other lady alleged Model raped her in 2012 in his Los Angeles residence, including that she obtained remedy at a rape disaster centre the identical day, the Sunday Occasions reported.
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The paper stated she then messaged him to say she had been scared and felt taken benefit of, including: “When a woman say[s] NO it means no.” Model reportedly replied saying he was “very sorry”.
A 3rd lady stated Model sexually assaulted her whereas she labored with him in Los Angeles and that he threatened to taken authorized motion in opposition to her if she informed anybody, in response to the paper.
A fourth lady stated she had additionally been sexually assaulted by Model and that he had been “bodily and emotionally abusive” in the direction of her, the Sunday Occasions stated.
The paper stated the ladies it had spoken to didn’t know one another and had principally chosen to stay nameless.
Following the allegations, the BBC and Channel 4 eliminated materials that includes Model from their web sites, whereas YouTube stopped him being profitable from movies posted on his channel.