Russell Brand’s YouTube channel has been demonetized after several women have come forward to claim that the comedian either raped or sexually abused them.
YouTube announced on Tuesday that Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site as the channel has been suspended “following serious allegations against the creator.” Brand has 6.6 million subscribers.
“This decision applies to all channels that may be owned or operated by Russell Brand,” the video service said.
According to the suspension, Brand will not be able to earn money from the ads that run within and alongside his YouTube videos.
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Other channels associated with Brand’s primary YouTube page include Awakening With Russell, with 426,000 subscribers, Football Is Nice, with 20,000 subscribers, and Stay Free With Russell Brand, which has 22,200 subscribers.
Brand is also present on Rumble, a video site popular with some conservatives and far-right groups. His channel there has 1.4 million followers. He also has 11.2 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, and 3.8 million on Instagram.
The 48-year-old comedian has denied allegations of sexual assault made by four women in a Channel 4 television documentary and The Times and Sunday Times newspapers. None of the accusers have been named. Only the first name of a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Brand during a relationship with him when she was 16 has been revealed. Another woman alleged that Brand raped her in Los Angeles in 2012.
All of the allegations against Brand seemed to have happened in the alleged incident between 2006 and 2013. London’s Metropolitan Police Force said that it has received a report of a separate sexual assault dating from 2003 since the other claims were made public.
Brand was at the peak of his career in the U.K. in the early 2000s. He hosted shows on radio and television and appeared in several Hollywood movies. He was briefly married to pop star Katy Perry between 2010 and 2012. He also wrote memoirs charting his battles with drugs and alcohol.
