Russell Brand's ex-girlfriend has said he sexually assaulted her and made her brush her teeth until her mouth bled during their relationship, because he wanted her to 'taste anonymous'.
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The claims, part of a new Netflix documentary released today, come after the convicted rapist was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for assaults on four women.
Russell Brand: Open Secret was released today, with Netflix announcing the film will follow Brand, 51, 'from comedy stardom to a criminal trial.
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The film features inside voices and archive footage providing insight into Brand’s life and the investigation run by The Times and The Sunday Times, through their Chief News Correspondent, Rosamund Urwin and Investigations Correspondent, Charlotte Wace.
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It comes after it was reported today that six more women have come forward to accused Brand of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour.
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Brand was jailed for ten-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
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The documentary hears from Brand's former girlfriend, Jordan Martin, who said she was in 'quite a vulnerable place' at the time she dated the disgraced comedian, having just split up with her husband.
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'I'd given up on love,' she said.
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The then-26-year-old described how he would make her brush her teeth until they bled and once sexually assaulted her during a fit of jealous rage.
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Jordan Martin was tearful as she recounted how Russell Brand sexually assaulted her and made her brush her teeth until her mouth bled
Netflix have announced a new documentary film charting the story of Russell Brand’s 'meteoric rise and steep fall
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He wanted me to taste anonymous.
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He didn't want me to be familiar to him.
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And so he was asking me to brush my teeth.
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And so he's standing over me, and I'm brushing and I'm brushing, and I see my teeth bleeding, and the association with...'
At this point, Ms Martin became too upset to continue and asked for a break.
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On another occasion, Ms Martin described being in a hotel in the UK with Brand when she spoke to a former partner using her phone to arrange to pick up a bag of belongings he still had.
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When Brand discovered who she had been speaking to, Ms Martin said: 'He snatched my phone out my hand and like broke it apart into pieces.
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So I kind of snatched the phone back and went into a separate room.'
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She went on, tearfully: 'He walked in, he didn't say anything.
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He put his hand down the front of my jeans, and he inserted a finger, and then walked away.'
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Ms Martin said she did not report it or share what had happened with anybody at the time and instead 'kept it quiet'.
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Elsewhere, she said she accompanied Brand on a filming role in Hawaii, telling the documentary he asked her to come along 'to stop him from trying it on with people on set'.
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She said Brand told her she was dressing 'like an attention-seeking slut' and accused her of flirting with crew members.
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Her allegations come as Brand is reportedly being assessed for a transfer to the notorious 'Monster Mansion' prison where paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death last year.
And new claims from six more women today include that he had sex without consent, or refused to stop having sex once consent was withdrawn.
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A third woman also claims the comedian grabbed her by the throat and sexually assaulted her in a hotel room, while another alleges he attempted to pull her into a disabled lavatory at a London venue as recently as 2015.
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Netflix's documentary comes as TV chiefs face a legal crackdown to make them protect girls from predatory entertainers following the Brand and David Walliams scandals.
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The claims, part of a new Netflix documentary released today, come after the convicted rapist was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for assaults on four women
Russell Brand: Open Secret will be released on the streamer on November 13, with Netflix announcing the film will follow Brand 'from comedy stardom to a criminal trial'
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is hauling broadcasters in for a showdown next week after it was claimed that Walliams' alleged preying on young women was – as with Brand – an 'open secret' in the industry.
Both are said to have become so powerful, and were so lucrative for broadcasters, that their behaviour went unchallenged.
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Walliams, 55, has denied claims that he groomed schoolgirls, sexually assaulted a 15-year-old and pestered teenagers for sex.
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He said he was 'not a sexual predator'.
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Ms Nandy vowed to 'draw a line in the sand' when she meets entertainment leaders – threatening laws to clean up the industry if they do not act.
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She said: 'A decade and a half on from the revelations about Jimmy Savile, and ten years on from the MeToo movement, we must finally take meaningful steps to end abuse and harassment.'
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TV producer and presenter Richard Osman has claimed he knew Brand was 'awful... right from the beginning', despite the pair never meeting.
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Osman, 55, worked as a creative director at Endemol UK, the production company which gave Brand his big break when he was hired to present Big Brother spin-off programmes in the mid-noughties.
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Osman has said that whilst he 'never worked with [Brand] and never met him... right from the beginning, I thought he was awful.
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I thought he's talentless,' and added that he had heard the comedian had a reputation for being 'a sleaze'.
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The TV personality and podcaster served as Endemol UK's Deputy Creative Director in 2004 and Creative Director from 2005 onwards, focusing on developing and producing quiz and game shows.
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Brand was hired by Endemol in 2004, three years after he was fired from his first TV presenting job at MTV when he arrived to work dressed as Osama bin Laden on September 12, 2001.
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After attending rehab for drug addiction, he landed a hosting role on Big Brother's spin-off show Big Brother's Eforum, later renamed as Big Mouth, in 2004, which was produced by Endemol UK.
Speaking on his podcast The Rest Is Entertainment with co-host Marina Hyde, Osman reflected on what he had heard about the rising star during this time.
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'From someone who was in the heart of the comedy and entertainment industry, and by the way, I will argue that Russell Brand was in neither of those industries, he was in an industry all of his own.
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'I've never worked with him, never met him.
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Right from the beginning, I thought he was awful.
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I thought he's talentless, all of that.
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