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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 girls 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 previous when a then 30-year-old Russell started a three-month relationship together 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 stated he ultimately grew to become very controlling and “emotionally and sexually abusive.” At one level within the relationship, Alice alleged he even “pressured his penis down her throat,” inflicting her to choke, and wouldn’t cease till she punched him onerous 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 wished an apology. However as a substitute, Alice received an “aggressive” message from an lawyer representing Russell insinuating that she wished cash. So that they had been conscious of those severe allegations for 3 years and did nothing?! They only 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 the entire accusations from The Sunday Instances. As for why the corporate took motion now? Tavistock Wooden informed Deadline in an announcement they had been “horribly misled” by Russell:
“Russell Model categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, however we now consider we had 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 had been “all the time consensual”:
“These allegations pertain to the time once I was working within the mainstream, once I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, once 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 had 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 going through the implications — in terms of his profession and within the court docket of public opinion. Ideas, Perezcious readers? Sound OFF within the feedback under.
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