Russell Model, bible in hand, pleads not responsible to new rape and sexual assault fees

London – British media persona and former comic Russell Model pleaded not responsible to 2 new fees of rape and sexual assault at a London courtroom on Tuesday.

Model, as soon as a left-leaning political campaigner who has rebranded himself as a conservative guru to tens of millions of social media followers, arrived at Southwark crown courtroom carrying a replica of the Bible, with a number of pages bookmarked.

He wore a fedora, a leopard-print shirt revealing a lot of his chest and a darkish coat.

Model denied fees of sexually assaulting a girl in London in 2009, and raping one other girls in the identical 12 months, additionally within the British capital.

His bail was renewed on the finish of a short listening to and he is because of face trial in June.

The 50-year-old is going through sexual offense fees involving a complete of six girls, in keeping with U.Okay. police.

Model pleaded not responsible in Could to 5 different fees regarding 4 girls – one rely of rape, considered one of oral rape, two of sexual assault and considered one of indecent assault between 1999 and 2005.

“These new fees are in relation to 2 additional girls and are along with the costs issued to Model in April 2025 which concerned 4 girls,” London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release in December.

British regulation protects the identities of individuals alleging sexual violence.

Born in 1975 to working-class mother and father in Essex, east of London, Model started his stand-up profession as a teen, occurring to work as an MTV presenter and host of a actuality TV sequence, and later starring in Hollywood movies.

He offered a present on the BBC’s Radio 2 station between 2006 and 2008, however stop after an on-air prank when he left a sexually specific voicemail for “Fawlty Towers” actor Andrew Sachs about his granddaughter.