Sam Pepper, the popular YouTube blogger, is now facing sexual harassment claims from several women. And after the allegations went public, there were rumors that he was arrested, which appear to be false.
About six women in all told the BBC that they were “touched inappropriately” or had indecent conversations with Pepper, who was on Big Brother.
Pepper hasn’t responded to the women’s allegations.
One of the accusers, 18-year-old Dottie Martin, posted a video online, saying that Pepper “tried to touch me around my chest area and I moved his hand away because I wasn’t comfortable with that.”
She added that Pepper, 25, went too far after holding hands and kissing. “He had his other hand on my leg and started moving it further up my leg which I really wasn’t comfortable with,” she added. “Unfortunately I felt like that was to be expected. I felt I was doing something I wasn’t meant to be doing, which was refusing.”
Pepper prompted outrage from many after posting a fake YouTube video of himself going around pinching and groping women. He said the whole thing was a “social experiment,” and the women knew about it beforehand.
But after that, a woman told BuzzFeed that he sexually assaulted her while he was on tour with rapper Sammy Adams in Toronto.
“I didn’t even know who Sammy Adams was,” she said. “I just went because my friends, we all really liked that whole YouTube thing at that time and my friends told me about [the concert] and said that [Sam Pepper] would be there.”
She added: “I walked into his room, he was sitting on a queen-sized bed watching TV ... There were two beds in the room, and I had no interest in lying next to him on a bed, so I sat on the other one and began to talk to him.”
“‘The most I could blurt out was ’Well, I can’t have sex with you. Please don’t have sex with me, I don’t do this kind of thing,” she told the site. “Which was true, at this point in my life I had never done anything like this with a boy ... He continued to do things to me against my will and then forced me to give him head, nearly choking me.”
She then said, “Afterwards, he threw me a napkin and told me that it was time to go.”
Pepper has not responded to the allegations on his Twitter account.
