Russell Model appeared at a London courtroom on Friday after being charged with rape, and indecent and sexual assault, pleading not responsible to all 5 costs.
The disgraced comic’s first listening to had taken place earlier this month after it was confirmed that the U.Okay.’s Crown Prosecution Service had licensed the Metropolitan Police to cost a person, recognized as 49-year-old Model, following an investigation by detectives.
Model, 49, had been charged with one rely of rape, one rely of indecent assault, one rely of oral rape, and two counts of sexual assault. The BBC reported that he pleaded not responsible to all 5 costs throughout his Friday look at London’s Southwark Crown Courtroom.
Model now faces a trial that’s scheduled to begin on June 3, 2026.
The crimes he has been charged with relate to a 1999 rape within the Bournemouth space of the U.Okay.; a 2001 indecent assault of a girl in Westminster, London; the 2004 oral rape and sexual assault of a girl in Westminster, London; and between 2004 and 2005, the sexual assault of one other lady in Westminster.
When the formal costs had been launched, Model, who has turned to Christianity and been baptized since widespread allegations got here to mild, responded to the costs in a video shared on his social media, stating: “I’ve by no means engaged in nonconsensual exercise. I pray which you can see that by wanting in my eyes.”
Detectives started investigating in September 2023 after receiving quite a few allegations, which adopted reporting by Channel 4’s Dispatches and The Sunday Occasions. This system aired in depth allegations in opposition to Model. One of many girls advised Dispatches that Model entered a relationship together with her when he was 31 and he or she was 16. Their relationship lasted three months, she had mentioned, and Model had been “emotionally abusive and controlling.” One other claimed that Model raped her in 2012 in his L.A. dwelling, based on the Sunday Occasions.
The British movie star denied all claims made in opposition to him, which date between 2006 and 2013, when Model was on the top of his fame engaged on Massive Brother’s Massive Mouth, Kings of Comedy and Massive Brother’s Superstar Hijack. A Banijay U.Okay.-commissioned investigation later discovered casual complaints regarding Model had been remodeled 20 years in the past on set, and one other overview into Model’s habits on the BBC, particularly between 2006 and 2008 when he labored for six Music and Radio 2, discovered that fellow workers believed he “would all the time get his method, and due to this fact stayed silent.”