Russell Model arrives at Westminster Magistrates’ court docket in London, Friday, Might 2, 2025, the place he faces, rape and sexual assault costs involving 4 girls.
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The political pundit and comic Russell Model has been launched on conditional bail till his listening to in London on Might 30, the court docket has confirmed with NPR. The information comes after Model’s court docket look earlier right this moment. The actor faces multiple charges of rape and sexual assault.
The allegations against Brand stem again to 2023, when The Occasions, The Sunday Occasions and Channel 4 revealed a joint investigation talking with 4 girls who accused Model of rape and sexual assault between 2006 and 2013. Model has since denied the allegations, saying that the relationships he had have been “completely and at all times consensual.”
In April 2025, the Metropolitan Police introduced that they had carried out an investigation and have been charging Model with a number of counts of rape and sexual assault. NPR has tried to succeed in out to Model’s representatives.
Within the early 2000s, Model was a rising star within the U.Okay. comedy and media scene, working for the BBC and MTV. His standing was elevated after internet hosting the TV present Huge Brother’s Huge Mouth, a spin-off of the favored actuality present Huge Brother. He turned extra well-known within the U.S. after appearing within the comedy motion pictures Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek.
Since then, he is pivoted to change into extra nicely referred to as an web commentator and pundit. Between his YouTube and Rumble channels, he is gained thousands and thousands of subscribers along with his movies criticizing globalism, the mainstream media and vaccines.
In current months, Brand has taken to social media to profess his conversion to Christianity. Within the run as much as the 2024 presidential election, Model joined right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson for an event within the battleground state of Arizona. There, he closed out the proceedings on his knees in prayer towards “the darkish and demonic forces” of the deep state.
