British actor Russell Model will skip jail on conditional bail after being hit with surprising expenses final month, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The 49-year-old appeared in courtroom Friday after going through severe accusations of rape, indecent assault, and oral rape – with 4 girls coming ahead and London’s Metropolitan Police launching an investigation.
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4 girls got here ahead accusing Model of sexual assault, main London’s Metropolitan Police to launch an investigation.
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The incidents, which Model has vehemently denied, are stated to have occurred between 1999 and 2005.
In a tense listening to at Westminster Justice of the Peace’s Court docket in London, extra particulars emerged concerning the bombshell claims in opposition to him.
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The British actor will face courtroom once more on the Outdated Bailey on Might 30, 2025.
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Model, nonetheless, solely spoke to substantiate his identify, birthdate, and tackle whereas acknowledging the bail circumstances.
He’s now set to face courtroom once more on the Outdated Bailey on Might 30.
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Whereas the Metropolitan Police listed him as residing in southern England when the costs have been introduced in April, British information outlet PA Media claims he is now believed to be residing in the US.
Detectives launched an investigation into the radio host in September 2023 after explosive allegations surfaced from a joint probe by The Sunday Occasions, The Occasions, and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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The Metropolitan Police declare the incidents embody a 1999 rape in Bournemouth, a 2001 indecent assault in Westminster, a 2004 oral rape and sexual assault in Westminster, and one other sexual assault between 2004-2005 – additionally in Westminster.
Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy from the Metropolitan Police, who lead the investigation, stated final month: “The ladies who’ve made experiences proceed to obtain assist from specifically educated officers.
“The Met’s investigation stays open, and detectives ask anybody who has been affected by this case or anybody who has any data to return ahead and converse with police.”
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The alleged incidents are stated to have occurred between 1999 and 2005.
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Jaswant Narwal, of the Crown Prosecution Service, stated: “We’ve at present approved the Metropolitan Police to cost Russell Model with quite a lot of sexual offenses.
“We fastidiously reviewed the proof after a police investigation into allegations made following the printed of a Channel 4 documentary in September 2023.
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“We’ve concluded that Russell Model ought to be charged with offenses together with rape, sexual assault, and indecent assault. These relate to reported non-recent offenses between 1999 and 2005, involving 4 girls.”
Narwal added: “The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everybody that prison proceedings are energetic, and the defendant has the correct to a good trial. This can be very vital that there be no reporting, commentary, or sharing of knowledge on-line which may in any means prejudice these proceedings.”
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In September 2023 – after the investigation was launched – Model took to Instagram to submit a video denying the allegations.
He defined: “I’ve acquired two extraordinarily disturbing letters, or a letter and an e-mail, one from a mainstream media TV firm, one from a newspaper, itemizing a litany of extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults.
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Detectives launched an investigation into the radio host in September 2023 after explosive allegations have been reported from a number of shops.
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“However amidst this litany of astonishing, slightly baroque assaults are some very severe allegations that I completely refute.”
The disgraced comic claimed the relationships he had have been “completely, at all times consensual.”
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Coincidentally, Model began cozying as much as the President Trump within the weeks earlier than he was charged.
RadarOnline.com reported in early February the disgraced actor was spending time at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound hoping to make high-powered connections that may have made him immune from being snagged by U.Okay. cops.
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An insider stated on the time: “Model isn’t any idiot and is homed in on Trump and his supporters as a means of creating certain he’ll by no means be extradited to Britain if expenses are introduced.
“He is aware of that if he is a good friend of President Trump then he’ll have his again and can make certain he is not taken again to the U.Okay. ought to that eventuality ever come up.”
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Model started cozying as much as President Trump and even attended his inauguration earlier this 12 months.
Model, who grew to become a radio and TV host within the U.Okay., is most identified for his roles in main Hollywood movies reminiscent of Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
He was additionally famously married to pop star Katy Perry from 2010 to 2012.