Russell Brand’s pubic hair is no longer on display at a London museum of curiosities following the actor’s conviction for rape and sexual assault.
Viktor Wynd, the eccentric collector behind Hackney’s Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Unnatural History, confirmed he had removed the unusual artifact from his collection following Brand’s legal troubles.
“I removed them from the exhibit and have no desire to hear his name again – he has no place in my museum of horrors,” Wynd said. Variety on Wednesday afternoon.
The deportation comes just days after Brand, 51, was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday (November 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 on British television and Hollywood. He was acquitted of two further charges of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault.
Pubic hairs had been among the most notorious objects in Wynd’s collection for over a decade. According to a 2016 museum account, the hair was initially sent to Wynd by a woman who claimed to have shaved Brand at a salon in Camden Town. The donation was accompanied by a handwritten letter explaining that she thought the collector would appreciate this unusual souvenir. The authenticity of the hair has not been independently verified.
Opened in 2014 on Hackney’s Mare Street, the Wynd Museum is inspired by the traditional Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, and houses an eclectic assortment of macabre objects, natural history specimens and celebrity memorabilia. His 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 lounge and cocktail bar run by the Last Tuesday Society.
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