User talk:Ohthatpaul

Russell Brand allegations

Hi there, I was impressed by your recent edits to Nirmal Purja and was wondering if you could do something similar for Russell Brand#Sexual misconduct allegations.

The section's long but lacks almost any detail from The Times report, including the women's accounts of the assaults. They're distressing to read but Wikipedia is not censored, and I think excluding them downplays the severity to readers.

There's no mention of the corroborating testimony from people close to the women or who worked with Brand, supporting documentation from the investigation, such as the text messages between Brand and the woman pseudonymised as "Nadia" (the phone number he used to send the messages was verified by multiple sources) or the letter she wrote him.

Nadia's close friend, who took her to the Rape Treatment Center at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center the same day as the attack provided The Times with medical records. She had therapy there for the following five months, during which records show she contemplated criminal/civil proceedings.

"Alice", who Brand apparently referred to as "the child", also had a family member corroborate her account of being groomed by him to The Sunday Times.

He threatened the women with legal action yet, despite strict libel laws in the UK, didn't sue News UK. The foolproof measures journalists had to go before publishing the report are explained here and by The Times themselves [1])

Regards, GhulamIslam (talk) 06:17, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for sending the message, and your compliment. Yes, I'd be happy to take a.look at that. Ohthatpaul (talk) 19:46, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]