NEW YORK POST
Russell Brand allegedly became so “preoccupied” with the innocence of the 16-year-old girl he is accused of sexually assaulting that he was “instantly aroused” when he learned she was a virgin, a disturbing new report reveals.
The woman, identified only as “Alice” in a bombshell joint investigation published Saturday by the Times of London and Channel 4 Dispatches, claims the then-31-year-old actor and comedian told her to read Vladamir Nabokov’s controversial “Lolita” — notable for its middle-aged protagonist obsessed with a 12-year-old girl — and sexually assaulted her during their three-month relationship in 2006.
Alice said she first met Brand when he approached her in Leicester Square while she was shopping nearby, recognized him from his stand-up act and work with the BBC.
“He took my shopping bags from me which was quite disarming and proceeded to go through my purchases and critique them, and then he took one dress out and said to me, ‘You’re going to wear this on our date this week’,” she told the outlets.
After Brand, now 48, asked Alice to dinner, her mother made her text him her age — which is above the age of consent in the UK — in hopes that it would discourage him, but it did not.
“I remember wearing a red wiggle dress and big platform shoes and had my hair blown out and was wearing makeup,” Alice said.
“But I didn’t look like a woman by any means. I was a child that had got dressed up for dinner.”
Brand had her confirm her age on their first date.
“I don’t give a f–k if you’re 12 … I need to know where I stand legally,” he allegedly told her, according to the report.
Brand’s charm and attentiveness made Alice feel “giddy” and “special,” she recalled.
When the teen first told Brand she was a virgin, he became instantly aroused and went on to become “preoccupied” with her innocence, she told the outlets.
“He was like, ‘Oh my God, my baby, my baby’, and picked me up and cradled me in his arms like a child and was stroking my hair,” she said. “He’s like, ‘You’re like my little dolly.’”
Brand would refer to her as “the child” and give her “scripts” to relay to her parents when he wanted to see her, even ordering her to save his number in her phone under the name “Carly,” according to the exposé.
Even though Alice was of age in the UK, she and a relative who backed up her claims to the Sunday Times equated his actions to “grooming.”
“Russell engaged in the behaviors of a groomer, looking back, but I didn’t even know what that was then, or what that looked like,” she told the outlet.
She added that Brand was controlling and once ran a bath for her and told her to remain in it for about an hour while he went out. She also claimed he once removed a condom during sex without her knowledge.
Alice also alleged Brand sexually assaulted her toward the end of their relationship.
“I was sat up in the bed up against the headboard, and he forced his penis down my throat and I couldn’t breathe,” she said, according to the report.
“It was just choking me and I couldn’t breathe, and I was pushing him away and he wasn’t backing off at all.”
“I ended up having to punch him really hard in the stomach to get him off,” she continued. “I was crying and he said, ‘Oh I only wanted to see your mascara run anyway.’
“Then I knew at that point that he didn’t care about hurting me physically or emotionally … It shouldn’t take you having to punch someone and to wind them to get them off you. It shouldn’t be a physical fight.”
Alice said Brand then forced her mouth open so he could drool into it.
“My limbs are trapped underneath him and I just thought, ‘Why are you doing this?” she said. “It can’t even be any sexual gratification in this.’ And then he held my mouth shut and made me swallow it and so I was just gagging and crying.”
Alice’s relationship with Brand ended when he invited her over only to find another woman in his bed when she arrived.
“I was so angry, and I said to him, ‘Why would you do this to me? This is so humiliating,’” she recalled.
Alice, who is now in her 30s is one of four women who told the Sunday Times that Brand sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013, during the height of his fame.
She revealed that she came forward after realizing that she had been too young to consent to a relationship with an adult and feels that the law should be changed to raise the age of consent to 18.
“My mum still feels like she failed me in some way in allowing this to happen, but she had no recourse at all,” she said. “It shouldn’t be legal for a 16-year-old to have a relationship with a man in their thirties. There should be something in place to protect children.”
Before the scandal broke, Brand posted a video to YouTube and X denying the allegations,
“I have received two extremely disturbing letters, or a letter and an email, one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of egregious and aggressive attacks,” he said.
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.”
The actor said the allegations stem from a time when he was “very, very promiscuous,” which he said he wrote “about extensively in my books.”
“Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual,” he said.
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