Russell Brand ‘banned from BBC’s US offices after flashing woman in toilet minutes before hosting Radio 2 show’
RAPIST Russell Brand was banned from BBC’s Los Angeles office in 2019 after allegedly flashing a woman in the toilets and exposing himself to her a decade earlier.
The disgraced comedian, 51, allegedly followed his victim – known by the pseudonym of “Olivia” – into the loos and exposed his penis in June 2008, minutes before recording Radio 2’s The Russell Brand Show.
At the time, his co-host Matt Morgan said on air that Brand had “showed his willy to a lady” 25 minutes earlier, but the incident was not investigated by the Beeb.
Olivia, who was not employed by the BBC but worked for another company in the same building, said she felt she couldn’t report the incident in 2008 because she feared repercussions.
She told the The Sunday Times: “I’d like to think my employer would have backed me, but I was worried that if I had gone up against him [Brand] and lost, I would have been responsible for any costs.
“It was a very different time and culture. There were also elements of embarrassment that this creep did this to me. It was shame.”
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However, the incident became a popular joke among BBC’s LA staff, with the corporation admitting last year that it was “often joked about”.
The revelations come as The Sun revealed that Brand secretly moved nearly £9million from one of his firms, which could stop money going to his victims.
Brand began diluting his vast wealth prior to standing trial for rape, despite always protesting his innocence, a Sun probe has revealed.
He shifted £8.7million out of his TV and stand-up company last year.
Legal experts expect the former comedian and actor will be subject to significant financial claims from victims on both sides of the Atlantic after he was last week found guilty of one rape and three sexual assaults.
He also resigned as a director of one firm in 2023, just weeks after he was publicly accused of being a sexual predator.
It comes as the religious influencer faces a significant jail term when he is sentenced today, November 9, at London’s Southwark crown court.
It has also emerged that Brand claimed he groped other students as part of a sick “genital grabbing” game while he was at school.
In his first memoir My Booky Wook, Brand, now 51, says he played a grubby game called “genital grabbing”, where he would grope other students over their clothes.
He later wrote of his classmates: “No one was safe from me… every female was a potential target.”
When he was in his 20s, this morphed into what was called the “knobstacle course” – his challenge of trying to charm women into going to bed with him.
It has been claimed Brand molested a female friend at a posh hotel — before paying for her to go through rehab.
The woman says he followed her to the toilets before pushing her into the disabled cubicle and sexually assaulting her.
The newly resurfaced material comes after the fiend was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault following a trial at Southwark Crown Court earlier this week.
He was acquitted of three charges.
After he was convicted, it emerged that he is being investigated over two new rape claims.