Timeline of events around Russell Brand allegations
Cole Parker, who worked with Russell Brand between 2000 and 2002, claimed that models were often warned by their agents about the comedian.
The first allegations came from four women who were featured in a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
Brand, 48, vehemently denied those claims but other women have since come forward, with the Met Police confirming they received a separate sexual assault allegation on Monday.
Comedian and writer Parker told BBC’s Newsnight he was “surprised” details were not made public sooner.
He said: “A lot of the modelling agents would sit down and tell their models, tell their stable, warn them about him.
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“Things like people go back to his house and they fool around and then if they didn’t want to go all the way, he had a reputation for sometimes getting angry or a bit nasty if people wouldn’t sleep with him the first time.
“And given the fact that he was a celebrity, very good-looking man, very funny, he didn’t really need to sort of operate that way.
“There would have been plenty of people who would have been happy to get themselves involved in a dalliance with him, he didn’t have to go with people who were reluctant to do so.”
Parker appeared on BBC Newsnight on Friday (September 22) to speak about the Get Him to the Greek star.
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Express.co.uk has contacted Russell Brand’s representatives for comment.
In a video released ahead of the reports being published, Brand described the allegations as “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks” against him.
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, [and] when I was in the movies,” he said.
“As I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.”
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