The comic Russell Brand denied “serious criminal allegations” in opposition to him in a video he posted shortly earlier than three British news organizations printed an investigation Saturday by which 4 girls accused him of sexual assault.

The investigation was a collaboration by The Sunday Times and The Times of London newspapers, and Channel 4 Dispatches, a tv program that broadcast a documentary concerning the allegations on Saturday. They reported that the ladies had accused him of sexual assault in a sequence of incidents between 2006 and 2013.

Mr. Brand, an actor and former TV host who has extra just lately constructed a major following on his YouTube channel, the place he typically opines on wellness and interviews outstanding conservative figures, launched a short video on social media on Friday by which he mentioned he had acquired notes from media organizations itemizing “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.”

“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” Mr. Brand mentioned within the video, occurring to say that whereas he has spoken beforehand a couple of “time of promiscuity” in his life, the encounters throughout that point have been “always consensual.”

His literary company, Tavistock Wood, introduced this weekend that it had minimize ties with him, saying in a press release that it believed it had been “horribly misled” by him when he denied an allegation in 2020.

The allegations have been printed because the comic, 48, was on a brief stand-up tour. At a present in northwest London on Saturday night time, he opened the night with an indirect reference to the accusations.

“I’ve got a lot of things to talk to you about,” he mentioned, according to media reports. “There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand.”

In the investigation, one lady accused Mr. Brand of raping her in opposition to a wall in his Los Angeles house in 2012. The news organizations mentioned that the girl had supplied medical data confirming that she had been handled at a rape disaster heart. Another lady accused him of forcing her to carry out oral intercourse on him when she was 16, regardless of her pushing him away.

In his video, Mr. Brand didn’t tackle the specifics of the accusations by the 4 girls, three of whom weren’t recognized within the experiences. He mentioned there have been “witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives” that had been put ahead to him by the news organizations, however in accordance with the article, a lawyer for Mr. Brand didn’t reply to an inquiry about offering such proof, nor did a authorized consultant reply to a request for touch upon the precise allegations.

Known for raunchy, boundary-pushing humor that has gotten him in trouble at instances, Mr. Brand’s fame grew in Britain within the 2000s with a one-man present about his heroin habit, after which as a BBC radio and Channel 4 tv host. He broke into American popular culture with a outstanding position within the rom-com “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” in 2008 and a remake of “Arthur” in 2011, and was briefly married to the pop star Katy Perry.

Now, Mr. Brand’s commentary on his YouTube channel, which has 6.6 million followers, tends to revolve round well being, spirituality, so-called woke tradition and free speech, and his friends have included Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Tucker Carlson and the conservative commentator Candace Owens. In his video on Friday, he accused the “mainstream media” of launching what he known as a “coordinated attack” in opposition to him. Elon Musk responded to Mr. Brand’s put up on X, the platform previously often known as Twitter, writing: “Of course. They don’t like competition.”

Mr. Brand has spoken about and written extensively about battling addictions to medicine, alcohol and intercourse, writing in his memoir that he was treated for a intercourse habit in 2005.

Alex Marshall contributed reporting from London.