‘Even I have limits’: Russell Brand’s pubic hair removed from London museum after conviction

A London museum has pulled Russell Brand’s pubic hair from display following his sexual assault conviction last week. 

The comedian was sentenced to 10 years and six months in jail for rape and three counts of sexual assault on Monday, for sexual assault offences he committed against four different women between 2004 and 2009. He must serve two-thirds of the sentence before he will be eligible for parole.

Brand’s pubic hair was on display in a green box at the Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History in Hackney, London, a quirky basement museum that contains strange, eclectic items. The owner of the museum, artist and writer Victor Wynd, confirmed that he has removed the artefact from his collection following Brand’s sentencing. 

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He told Variety: “I took them straight off display and have no desire to hear his name again – he has no place in my museum of horrors. My museum is full of disgusting things, but even I have limits.”

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Wynd is planning to replace Brand’s pubic hair with a memorial plate that his friend Elizabeth MacNeal is currently auctioning on Instagram to raise funds for the charity Rape Crisis. 

The hair was posted to the museum by a woman who claimed she shaved the comedian at a salon in Camden. She included a handwritten letter in the parcel, explaining that she thought the museum owner would like the strange item in his collection. Brand never confirmed whether it was actually his. 

Other strange items in the museum include a jar of celebrity poo, including Amy Winehouse and Kylie Minogue, a hippo skull that belonged to Pablo Escobar, a piece of David Bowie’s hair which was apparently “stolen in 1973, on his last Ziggy gig” and a 19th-century coffee table with a real human skeleton inside.

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