Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape and sexual assault in the U.K., stemming from incidents from 1999 to 2005 involving four women, London’s Metropolitan Police said on Friday.

Brand was charged with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, according to the Met Police. He is due to appear in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a hearing on May 2.

Jaswant Narwal of the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement that police had launched a probe following a 2023 investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 into four women’s sexual assault accusations against Brand from 2006 to 2013. Months after the documentary aired, Channel 4 said it received “two new worrying allegations“ against Brand.

Brand’s representative did not immediately respond to MSNBC’s request for comment on the charges. The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor, who has made a turn to wellness influencing and Christianity in recent years, has long denied allegations of sexual assault.

Ahead of the 2023 investigative documentary, he said in a YouTube video that the media had launched a “litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks” against him that included “some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.” Brand said he was “very, very promiscuous” in the past but that his relationships “were absolutely always consensual.”

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