Set off warning: This text incorporates descriptions of sexual violence. Russell Model responded to rape allegations in a brand new video shared on social media, denying what he known as “very critical legal” claims forward of a current report by The Sunday Instances.
Based on The Sunday Instances, the British comic, 48, has been accused of sexual assault by 4 girls between 2006 and 2013. The report, which was revealed following a joint investigation with The Instances of London and the U.Ok. community Channel 4’s documentary crew “Dispatches,” particulars claims of “rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse” allegedly carried out by Model. A 90-minute documentary on the allegations, titled Russell Model: In Plain Sight is ready to air on Channel 4 on September 16, 2023, at 9 p.m. GMT. “5 girls, 4 of whom requested to stay nameless, agreed to share their tales of great sexual allegations in this system,” a rep for the present mentioned, per Selection.
The accusers, who stay nameless within the Instances’ report, shared their experiences of various levels of alleged sexual, emotional, and bodily abuse by Model. One girls alleged that Model raped her in opposition to a wall at his residence in Los Angeles. Based on the Instances, she was handled at a rape disaster heart later that day and despatched the comic textual content messages telling him that she felt he had taken benefit of her. “When a woman say[s] NO it means no,” one alleged textual content learn, to which Model purportedly replied that he was “very sorry.”
A second girl claims that she was solely 16 years outdated when she was assaulted by Model, who was 31 years outdated on the time. Throughout their relationship, which lasted about three months, she mentioned he referred to her as “the kid” and requested her to learn passages from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Lolita, which follows a predatory relationship between a middle-aged man and a 12-year-old woman. The girl additionally alleged that Model as soon as “compelled his penis down her throat” till she choked, and needed to punch him within the abdomen to make him cease.
A 3rd girl alleged that he sexually assaulted her once they labored collectively in Los Angeles. Based on the lady, Model threatened to take authorized motion in opposition to her if she spoke up about her expertise. The fourth girl additionally claimed she was sexually assaulted by Model, and described the actor as being each bodily and emotionally abusive throughout their relationship.
Russell Model’s response to rape allegations
Forward of the Time’s report, Model took to social media on September 15, 2023, to share that he “completely refutes” the claims being made in opposition to him, describing the allegations as “extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults.”
“I’ve obtained two extraordinarily disturbing letters, or a letter and an e mail, one from a mainstream media TV firm, one from a newspaper, itemizing a litany of extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults,” he mentioned initially of a virtually three-minute lengthy video. “However amidst this litany of astonishing, somewhat baroque assaults, are some very critical allegations that I completely refute.”
The comic, who first discovered fame as a bunch on MTV U.Ok., went on to deal with the timeline of the allegations. He characterised his relationships together with his accusers as “consensual,” having taken place throughout a time frame of “promiscuity.”
“These allegations pertain to the time after I was working within the mainstream, after I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, after I was within the motion pictures,” he shared. “And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I used to be very, very promiscuous. Now throughout that point of promiscuity, the relationships I had have been completely, all the time consensual.”
He continued, “I used to be all the time clear about that then—nearly too clear. And I’m being clear about it now as nicely. And to see that transparency metastasized into one thing legal, that I completely deny.”
The actor then went on to recommend that his “voice” has by no means been absolutely accepted by mainstream media, and speculated that these allegations are half of a bigger agenda in opposition to him. Whereas he didn’t title the Instances or Channel 4 explicitly, he known as out media entities for utilizing his experiences to “assault” him.
“I don’t thoughts them utilizing my books and my stand-up to speak about my promiscuous, consensual conduct previously. What I severely refute are these very, very, critical legal allegations,” he went on so as to add. “Additionally, it’s price mentioning that there are witnesses whose proof instantly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media retailers are attempting to assemble apparently, in what appears to me to be, a coordinated assault.”
Whereas Model didn’t dive any deeper into the claims being made in opposition to him because of their “critical nature,” he did make his stance clear. “I really feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they’re working very intently collectively,” he shared.
When you or somebody you already know has skilled sexual violence, free and confidential assist is obtainable. Name the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
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