Popular video-sharing platform, YouTube has blocked comedian Russell Brand videos from earning any money after sexual assault allegations from several women.
Five women have accused Brand of sexual assault, rape and emotional abuse, and he has strongly denied the allegations.
YouTube has demonetized the comedian for breaking its “creator responsibility policy,” according to multiple outlets.
“If a creator’s off-platform behavior harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community,” a YouTube spokeswoman told The New York Times.
Speaking about the allegations, Brand posted a video, saying:
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” Brand stated in a video post before they published the investigation.
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies,” Brand said in the video. “As I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.”
The five women alleged that Brand sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013.
