Russell Brand’s pubic hair is no longer on display at a London museum of curiosities following the comedian’s conviction and sentencing for rape and sexual assault.
\n\nViktor Wynd, the eccentric collector behind the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History in Hackney, confirmed that he removed the unusual artifact from his collection in the wake of Brand’s legal troubles.
\n\n“I took them straight off display and have no desire to hear his name again – he has no place in my museum of horrors,” Wynd told Variety on Wednesday afternoon. “My museum is full of disgusting things but even I have limits.”
\n\nWynd says he hopes to replace it with a memorial plate that his friend Elizabeth MacNeal is auctioning on Instagram in support of the charity Rape Crisis.
\n\nThe removal comes just days after Brand, 51, was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Monday, Nov. 9. A jury found the former comedian and actor guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women, with the offenses taking place between 2004 and 2009, during his rise to fame in British television and…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/