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Russell Model misplaced his agent within the wake of the horrific sexual assault accusations that got here out over the weekend.
As we beforehand reported, 4 ladies got here ahead to accuse the 48-year-old comic of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse in incidents that occurred between 2006 and 2013. In The Sunday Instances exposé, one of many victims – who used the pseudonym Alice – claimed she was solely 16 years outdated when a then 30-year-old Russell started a three-month relationship along with her in 2006. His administration on the time knew about their romance.
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Whereas the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star was “very charming and really attentive” at first, she mentioned he ultimately grew to become very controlling and “emotionally and sexually abusive.” At one level within the relationship, Alice alleged he even “compelled his penis down her throat,” inflicting her to choke, and wouldn’t cease till she punched him laborious within the abdomen. Terrible.
Years after their breakup, it seems Alice reached out to Russell’s expertise company Tavistock Wooden’s co-founder Angharad Wooden in 2020 and shared her horrific expertise with the actor. The sufferer informed them she solely needed an apology. However as a substitute, Alice obtained an “aggressive” message from an lawyer representing Russell insinuating that she needed cash. So that they have been conscious of those critical allegations for 3 years and did nothing?! They simply took his phrase for it? What the f**ok.
It was not till this week that the company determined to drop him after studying about all the accusations from The Sunday Instances. As for why the corporate took motion now? Tavistock Wooden informed Deadline in an announcement they have been “horribly misled” by Russell:
“Russell Model categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, however we now imagine we have been horribly misled by him. TW has terminated all skilled ties to Model.”
Wow…
Russell has denied the allegations. He preemptively fired again in a video posted on social media, insisting that this relationships have been “all the time consensual”:
“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 films. 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. I used to be all the time clear about that then — nearly too clear.”
Regardless of his makes an attempt to get forward of this scandal, Russell clearly is dealing with the results — with regards to his profession and within the courtroom of public opinion. Ideas, Perezcious readers? Sound OFF within the feedback beneath.
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