Intercourse assault claims towards Russell Model being investigated, UK police says | Information

British police mentioned they’d launched an investigation right into a variety of allegations of “non-recent” sexual offences following media stories that 4 girls had accused actor and comic Russell Model of a string of sexual assaults.

Earlier this month, the Sunday Instances newspaper and Channel 4 TV’s documentary present Dispatches reported that the ladies had accused Model, 48, of intercourse offences, together with rape, between 2006 and 2013.

Model has rejected the allegations, saying on his social media channels that he had by no means had nonconsensual intercourse.

“Following an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and The Sunday Instances, the Met has acquired quite a lot of allegations of sexual offences in London,” London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release.

“We’ve got additionally acquired quite a lot of allegations of sexual offences dedicated elsewhere within the nation and can examine these.”

Model, the previous husband of US singer Katy Perry, issued a video message earlier this month on social media to disclaim the “very critical prison allegations” hours earlier than they had been revealed on September 17.

The Instances and Dispatches mentioned one girl had made an allegation of rape, whereas one other mentioned Model assaulted her when she was 16 and nonetheless at college. Two of the accusers had reported the incidents occurred in Los Angeles.

Final week, YouTube introduced that Model will not earn a living from the video streaming website, the place his account has 6.6 million subscribers.

Different channels related to Model’s principal YouTube web page embrace Awakening With Russell (426,000 subscribers) and Soccer Is Good (about 20,000 subscribers) and Keep Free With Russell Model (22,200 subscribers).

Nevertheless – on-line video platform Rumble, the place Model additionally posts his content material and has greater than 1.4 million subscribers – has refused to cease his potential to earn a living from their website.

In reality, the Canada-based website condemned a letter by members of UK’s parliament expressing issues concerning the 48-year-old comic being nonetheless allowed to make use of the platform.

Rumble chief Chris Pavlovski mentioned it’s “deeply inappropriate and harmful that the UK parliament would try to manage who’s allowed to talk on our platform or to earn a dwelling from doing so”.