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Household item Russell Brand demanded women use as more disturbing details emerge
Further allegations about Russell Brand have emerged after the now-disgraced comedian and actor was sentenced to 10-and-a-half-years in prison for three counts of sexual assault and one count of rape, with victims revealing one weird request he had for them all.
The allegations have been revealed after six more women came forward with claims of sexual assault and misconduct against the comedian, who is beginning his jail term.
Brand has previously denied wrongdoing, maintaining that his relationships were consensual, but his legal representatives did not respond to an agreed deadline to comment on the latest allegations.
New allegations about particularly disturbing requests
While the new accounts include allegations of serious sexual misconduct, several women have also described a recurring pattern around personal hygiene.
According to their accounts, Brand appeared to have an unusual fixation with women's teeth and cleanliness, with one of the new accusers, identified by the pseudonym Vicky, claiming Brand requested that she go and brush her teeth during sex.
According to Vicky, who was just 19 when she met Brand after attending one of his comedy shows in 2007, she described feeling overwhelmed when the comedian noticed her, saying: “I was so nervous I felt myself shaking.”
Vicky initially viewed his attention as something of a “fairytale”, and the pair later had sex, but when they met again a couple of weeks later, she recounted an uncomfortable moment while they were kissing.
According to The Times, Brand stopped and told her to go and give her teeth “a good hard brush”.
“I was just so embarrassed,” Vicky admitted.
Another woman alleged that Brand also insisted she brush her teeth whenever she visited his flat.
According to her reports, he kept new toothbrushes for her to use, with Georgia saying the experience left her feeling “dirty” and was “dehumanizing”.
The claims bear similarities to an account previously given by Alice, who was 16 when she began a relationship with the then 30-year-old Brand.
According to The Times, Alice had noticed several toothbrushes at Brand's home and asked him what they were for, with Brand allegedly telling Alice the toothbrushes “weren’t for her,” and that they were for “dirty women”.
The allegations of unusual demands did not stop at brushing teeth, either, with Rosie, who met Brand after winning a competition in 2006, describing an encounter at his home that she then claimed left her feeling particularly humiliated.
After the pair had sex, Rosie said they went into the bathroom, where Brand allegedly asked her to lick the toilet seat.
“I want you to lick that toilet seat,” he reportedly told her.
Rosie refused, claiming Brand then became angry because she would not comply.
“He then got angry and seemed p***ed off that I wouldn’t let him humiliate me,” she claimed.
She revealed to The Times that she believed the demand was intended to establish whether she would “do anything” for him, an account that echoed an earlier allegation, in which Brand had allegedly ran a bath for a victim and demanded she remain in it while he left the house.
Grim detail emerges about sex in disabled bathrooms
Another detail emerging from the latest allegations concerns Brand's reported use of disabled toilets, with Rosie claiming that her first sexual encounter with the comedian took place inside a disabled toilet.
A separate allegation involving a disabled bathroom involved Louise, who knew Brand through her work at a London venue, revealing to The Times that Brand would reportedly spend around an hour meditating inside the venue's disabled toilet each day.
On one occasion, a member of his staff told Louise that Brand wanted to see her and was waiting in the bathroom.
“I went up to it, and he [Russell] cranked the door open, and he’d switched the lights off inside,” she claimed.
Brand allegedly attempted to persuade her to approach the bathroom door, claiming he required toilet paper. When she handed it to him, Louise alleged that “he grabbed her - hard”.
While she attempted to move away, she realized that one of Brand's staff members was standing behind her, but managed to remove herself from the situation.
“I tried to get away, when I stepped back, I realised his [member of staff] was standing right behind me,” she revealed.
She remembers going into another room, where she “properly cried, because I felt like a piece of meat”.
The new allegations add to the growing number of accounts concerning Brand's behaviour towards women. Several of the women who spoke to The Times for its reporting are separate from the victims whose allegations were investigated by police and formed part of the criminal case against him.