A clump of the disgraced comic’s crotch clippings had been on display at the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History since 2016, but the curator said: “Even I have limits.”
Russell Brand’s pubes have been removed from a museum of curiosities following his rape and sexual assault conviction. Eccentric curator Viktor Wynd said: “My museum is full of disgusting things but even I have limits.”
A clump of the disgraced comic’s crotch clippings had been on display at the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History since 2016. They were donated by a woman who claimed to have shaved Brand’s bush at a salon in Camden.
But they were removed after the shamed TV presenter was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court for several sexual offences between 2004 and 2009 against four women.
Viktor said: “I took them straight off display and have no desire to hear his name again – he has no place in my museum of horrors.” The oddball display had been among the more notorious items in Wynd’s collection for over a decade.
A 2016 account of the museum said the donation was accompanied by a handwritten letter explaining that she thought the collector would appreciate the unusual souvenir. Its authenticity was never independently verified.
Viktor told Variety he has donated the pubic hair to Littledean Jail, the crime museum in the Forest of Dean, and hopes to replace it with a memorial plate that his friend Elizabeth MacNeal is auctioning on Instagram in support of the Rape Crisis charity.
Opened in 2014 in Hackney, Viktor’s museum is modelled after the traditional Wunderkammer – or cabinet of curiosities – and houses an eclectic array of macabre mementoes, natural history artefacts and celebrity memorabilia.
Its collection includes shrunken heads, two-headed animals, dodo bones, occult objects and a lock of Elvis Presley’s hair. The museum also houses an absinthe parlour and cocktail bar operated by the Last Tuesday Society.
Brand was jailed for more than 10 years on Monday after being found guilty of raping a woman in 2009; sexually assaulting another at a radio station; sexually assaulting a third at a bar in 2004; and sexually assaulting a fourth by placing his head in her groin area.
He was cleared of two further charges of rape and one allegation of attempted indecent assault. Judge Joel Bennathan said Brand was “a sexual predator with casual, arrogant disregard of any woman’s right to say ‘no’.”