Russell Model performing in 2020. LESTER COHEN/GETTY IMAGES
Police in london acquired a report of sexual assault tied to the allegations made in opposition to Russell Model within the media over the weekend.
In a press release shared with Rolling Stone, the Metropolitan Police mentioned: “On Sunday, 17 September, the Met acquired a report of a sexual assault which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003. Officers are involved with the girl and shall be offering her with help.”
Model was not named within the police report, and it’s commonplace apply for the Met Police to not title individuals who could or might not be topics of an investigation. The assertion did, nonetheless, seek advice from current reporting in The Occasions UK and Channel 4’s investigative present Dispatches, which is the place the allegations in opposition to Model first appeared.
The Met Police added: “We first spoke with The Sunday Occasions on Saturday, 16 September and have since made additional approaches to The Sunday Occasions and Channel 4 to make sure that anybody who believes they’ve been the sufferer of a sexual offence is conscious of methods to report this to the police. We proceed to encourage anybody who believes they could have been a sufferer of a sexual offence, regardless of how way back it was, to contact us.”
Within the joint report, 4 girls — together with one who was simply 16 on the time — accused Model of sexual assault and rape. Notably, the brand new report filed with the police includes an alleged incident from 2003, whereas the accusations in The Occasions UK/Channel 4 experiences spanned 2006 to 2013.
A rep for Model didn’t instantly return Rolling Stone’s request for remark relating to the report filed with the Met Police. Model did, nonetheless, preemptively deny the allegations in a press release shared on-line earlier than the article was revealed or the episode premiered.
Moreover, the promoter behind Model’s “Bipolarisation” tour determined to postpone the remaining three dates of the run. “We’re suspending these few remaining dependancy charity fundraiser reveals, we don’t like doing it — however we all know you’ll perceive,” the promoter mentioned in a press release shared with Rolling Stone UK.
Following the allegations, Model was dropped by his expertise company, Tavistock Wooden, which was tangentially tied to one of many allegations made in opposition to Model. The girl who mentioned she was in a three-month relationship with Model when she was 16, and accused him of being “emotionally and sexually abusive,” alleged that Tavistock Wooden was conscious of her relationship with Model and advisable he not be seen in public together with her (the age of consent in England is 16). Years later, in 2020, the girl mentioned she went to Tavistock Wooden together with her allegations, looking for an apology, however as a substitute obtained a letter from Model’s lawyer accusing her of looking for cash.
After this previous weekend’s experiences, Tavistock Wooden issued a press release saying that they had dropped Model: “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.”
Together with being dropped by his company, Model’s U.Ok. writer, Bluebird, determined to pause all e book releases associated to the actor and comic (that features his subsequent e book, Restoration: The Workbook, which was scheduled to be revealed in December). Moreover, Channel 4 and the BBC have launched inner investigations of their very own into Model, because the timeline of the allegations in opposition to him coincides with a few of his early work for Channel 4’s Huge Brother’s Huge Mouth and several other BBC radio applications in the course of the mid-to-late 2000s.
From Rolling Stone US.
