London Museum Removes Russell Brand’s Pubic Hair After Rape Conviction
Russell Brand’s pubic hair has been removed from the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History in Hackney after Brand’s conviction and sentencing for rape and sexual assault. Museum founder Viktor Wynd said he took the artifact off display immediately and no longer wanted Brand associated with the collection.
Brand, 51, was sentenced at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Nov. 9 to 10 years and six months in prison. A jury found him guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others in offenses committed between 2004 and 2009, during his rise in British television and Hollywood. He was acquitted of two other rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault.
The hair had been one of the museum’s more notorious exhibits for more than a decade. A 2016 account said it was sent to Wynd by a woman who claimed to have shaved Brand at a Camden Town salon, along with a handwritten note. Its authenticity was never independently verified. Opened in 2014, the museum is modeled on a Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, and contains macabre artifacts, natural-history specimens and celebrity memorabilia, including shrunken heads, two-headed animals, dodo bones, occult objects and a lock of Elvis Presley’s hair.
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