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Premiering conscionable 8 days aft Russell Brand was recovered guilty of 1 number of rape and 3 counts of intersexual assault, the documentary is called Russell Brand: Open Secret.
The documentary comes from 72 Films, a Fremantle company, the 1 that brought america Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story. Featuring insiders' voices and archival footage, the documentary volition illustration Brand's emergence to stardom and eventual autumn aft the allegations of intersexual misconduct emerged.
Brand had antecedently pleaded "not guilty" to each of the allegations against him. During the sentencing, however, Mr Justice Bennathan spoke of Brand arsenic a “sexual predator”, who told “a bid of lies” during his ain testimony.
Allegations of historical intersexual misconduct against Brand were archetypal made nationalist successful 2023 arsenic portion of a associated probe by The Sunday Times and the Channel 4 existent affairs amusement Dispatches.
The documentary promises to springiness penetration into some Brand's beingness and into the probe tally by The Times and The Sunday Times by main media analogous Rosamund Urwin and investigations analogous Charlotte Wace.
With Netflix announcing the documentary conscionable 3 days aft Brand's sentencing, radical are not lone astonished astatine the timing, but besides questioning wherefore Netflix isn't pulling Russell Brand's stand-up show, Re: Birth, from their level (although they volition nary longer actively beforehand oregon urge it to subscribers).
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