More on Russell Brand rape charges. Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has issued an apology for his remarks.

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Ay and Welcome to Entertainment Daily,
a short roundup of the top entertainment stories

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in today's news. Following accusations of
rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse against

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Russell Brand covering a seven year period
at the height of his fame, the

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UK arm of big production company Banner
Jay said on Sunday that it has launched

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an urgent internal probe. Per the
Hollywood Reporter, The Times, and Channel

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four investigation into Brand found four women
alleging that Brand sexually assaulted them between two

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thousand and six and two thirteen while
he was a BBC presenter and acting in

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Hollywood films. It also spoke of
controlling, abusive and predatory behavior by the

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star, who has vehemently denied wrongdoing. The Saturday reports further included accusations that

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Brand flashed his penis at a runner
and pursued women in the audience for sex

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while working at the show's ear Forum
and Brothers Big Mouth, which were produced

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by Endemol for Channel four. Endemol
and Shine Group merged in twenty fifteen to

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form Endemol Shine, which Bana Jay
acquired in twenty twenty. In light of

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the very serious allegations, bane Jay
UK has launched an urgent internal investigation and

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will cooperate with any request for information
from broadcast partners and external agencies, the

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company said in a Sunday statement.
We also encourage anybody who feels that they

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were affected by Brand's behavior while working
on these productions to contact us in confidence.

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The actor and comedian preemptively denied the
allegations reported by The Times and Channel

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four in a video posted to his
social media platforms on Friday. He said

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he received an email and a letter
from the mainstream TV company and a newspaper

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that listed several egregious and aggressive acts
that he absolutely refutes these allegations pertaining to

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the time when I was working in
the mainstream, when I was in the

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newspapers all the time, when I
was in the movies, and as I've

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written about extensively in my books,
I was very, very promiscuous, he

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said in the video posted to Twitter
an instant Now during that time of promiscuity,

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the relationships I had were absolutely always
consensual. I was always transparent about

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that then, almost too transparent,
and I'm being transparent about it now as

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well. About the historical allegations against
Brand, bene Juk said on Saturday.

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While the legacy company Endemol did have
a code of conduct, support policies and

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escalation procedures in place during the period
in question two thousand four five, they

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were not as robust as our current
processes. We are sorry these women did

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not feel supported and protected while working
on these productions, and in light of

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these serious allegations, encouraged them to
contact us in confidence. Rolling Stone co

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founder Jann Wenner has issued an apology
following controversial comments he made about black and

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female musicians being not articulate enough to
be included in his new book. The

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apology came Saturday night, a few
hours after the Rock and Roll Hall of

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Fame Foundation announced he was being removed
from his position on the board of directors.

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In an interview with The New York
Times, which was published online Friday

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to promote his new book, The
Masters, when I said he didn't include

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interviews with black and female musicians in
his book because they aren't articulate enough.

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On Saturday, he said he apologized
wholeheartedly for his comments. In my interview

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with The New York Times, I
made comments that diminished the contributions, genius

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and impact of black and women artists, and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks,

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he said in a statement given to
The Hollywood Reporter. The Masters is

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a collection of interviews I've done over
the years that seemed to me to best

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represent an idea of rock and roll's
impact on my world. They were not

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meant to represent the whole of music
and its diverse and important originators, but

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to reflect the high points of my
career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth

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and experience in that career. They
don't reflect my appreciation and admiration from myriad

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totemic world changing artists to his music
and ideas. I revere and I will

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celebrate and promote as long as I
live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature

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of badly chosen words and deeply apologize
and accept the consequences. When His book

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features interviews with such legends as Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick

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Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend. However, it

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does not include any interviews with black
or female musicians. Asked by the Times

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how he chose the musicians to feature, when I replied, when I was

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referring to the zeitgeist. I was
referring to black performers, not to the

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female performers. Okay, just to
get that accurate. The selection was not

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a deliberate selection. It was kind
of intuitive over the years. It just

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fell together that way. The people
had to meet a couple criteria, but

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it was just kind of my personal
interest and love of them in so far

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as the women, just none of
them were as articulate enough on this intellectual

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level, he said. The Times
reporter David Markazy, a one time online

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editor at Rolling Stone, pushed back
on that claim by citing Joni Mitchell.

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It's not that they're not creative geniuses. When a reply, it's not that

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they're inarticulate. Although go have a
deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin,

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please be my guest. You know, Johnny was not a philosopher of

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rock and roll. She didn't,
in my mind, meet that test,

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not by her work, not by
other interviews she did. The people I

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interviewed were the kind of philosophers of
rock, of black artists, you know.

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Stevie wondered genius, right, I
suppose when you use a word as

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broad as masters, the fault is
using that word. Maybe Marvin Gay or

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Curtis Mayfield. I mean, they
just didn't articulate at that level. When

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I went on to acknowledge that he
could have included a black musician and a

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female musician just for public relations sake, to avoid criticism, maybe I should

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have gone and found one black and
one woman artist to include here that didn't

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measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism,

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he said, which I get it. I had a chance to do

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that. Maybe I'm old fashioned and
I don't give a expletive or whatever I

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wish in retrospect, I could have
interviewed Marvin Gay. Maybe he had been

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the guy. Maybe otis reading and
he lived would have been the guy.

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Not long after the story was published
Friday, many readers, including journ,

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criticized Winner on social media for his
comments. On Saturday, the Rock and

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Roll Hall of Fame announced Wenner's removal
from the board. When a led Rolling

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Stone for five decades before stepping away
in twenty nineteen, he is also co

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founder of the Rock and Roll All
the Fame More Entertainment Daily. In just

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a moment, Merrily and Manson were
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a fine on Monday after pleading no
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at a twenty nineteen concert in New
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required him to be in the courtroom
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Concord, the state Capitol. Manson, whose legal name was Brian Warner,

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was charged with two misdemeanor counts of
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videoographer at the Bank of New Hampshire
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little more than fourteen hundred dollars as
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dollars suspended. He needs to remain
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any New Hampshire performances for two years. The judge agreed to allow Manson to

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serve his community service in California.
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to work with people in recovery.
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service by February fourth. The Jennifer
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and postponing its season premiere while writers
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slated to premiere Monday, but is
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of Drew Barrymore and CBS's The Talk. Sources say Hudson advocated for the postponement.

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third Agatha Christie adaptation, following twenty
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