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the accusations against Russell Brand the famed comedian actor and political commentator

stands accused by four different women, all of whom

are anonymous of various forms of sexual misconduct,

including an allegation of rape from one of those women.

The year-long investigation that culminated in these accusations was conducted by a consortium

of British media companies, including the newspaper Times of London that is owned by the Murdoch

family as well as the television network channel 4.

All of the allegations concern alleged behavior he undertook from the period of 2006 to 2013, when

Brand worked for Channel 4 as well as for the BBC. There are no allegations involving behavior after 2013. Prior to

publication of the Times article and the Channel 4 documentary, none of these

women had ever filed a criminal complaint and there are no indications that even

with the publication of these accusations they have done so yet.

Brant skyrocketed to cultural celebrity as a result of hosting numerous

television programs acting as the lead in several Hollywood studio films and

being married for a short time to the pop star Katie Perry. He has always

been political and was long associated with the British left, being a vocal

supporter of the British socialist Jeremy Corbin and himself identifying for a long time as a

Democratic socialist. But over the last several years brands politics has become

less susceptible to being ideologically pigeonholed for many of the same reasons

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