YouTube prankster hit with sexual harassment claim over ‘ass pinch’ sketch
YouTube favourite Sam Pepper has been hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit after a victim failed to see the funny side of his ‘fake hand’ ass-pinch prank involving a prosthetic limb.
The comedian outraged many of his 2.4m subscribers after approaching sex education activist Laci Green for his sketch, which elicited a slew of further allegations relating to Pepper’s off-screen behaviour.
In an open letter to the 25-year old Green wrote: “please stop violating women and making them uncomfortable on the street for views,” encouraging other women to come forward with their own complaints.
Some of these are of a serious nature with Green reporting: “What I can tell you a police report was filed by a young woman who was allegedly pinned down and masturbated upon against her will.”
In response to the claims Pepper said: “Both the video that I previously shot we're STAGED and SCRIPTED, each person was told before exactly what to say, exactly what i was going to do and exactly how to react to make people who viewed video react the way they did. regardless of this, and the people being actors, the videos have caused upset to a lot of people, which I'm sorry for, I have removed the two videos so as not to cause any more upset to them people.”
In response to the claims Collective Digital Studio has dropped Pepper from its multichannel network.