Actor Malcolm Barrett is the focus of an ongoing sexual assault investigation in Los Angeles.
Police sources told TMZ on Monday that the Brooklyn, New York native, 44, was being probed after a woman accused him of assaulting her.
Barrett’s accuser got in touch with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department last month to report the incident involving the actor, who’s played the role of Seth Reed on seven episodes of The Boys from 2019-2014, according to the outlet.
Barrett’s accuser said that after she and the actor consumed alcohol over the course of an evening, she awoke in his bed and he was ‘touching’ her, police sources told the outlet.
Barrett’s accuser told police that the actor, also known for playing the role of Rufus Carlin on the NBC time travel series Timeless, ‘had sex with her against her will,’ according to the outlet.
Barrett’s accuser said to police that she had known the actor for months, and they had been out in Los Angeles drinking ahead of the alleged assault, TMZ reported.
Actor Malcolm Barrett, 44, is the focus of an ongoing sexual assault investigation in LA, police sources said on Monday (pictured in August in LA)
Barrett’s accuser ‘underwent a sexual assault kit’ after reporting the allegations to officials, law enforcement sources told the outlet.
The LASD Special Victims Bureau is presiding over the probe, in which no arrests have been made, the outlet reported.
Barrett, who also has a background in standup comedy, has nearly 45,000 followers on Instagram under the handle @verbalberappin.
He did not appear to address the allegations in a series of posts on his Instagram Stories Monday.
He has also been seen on TV series including Average Joe, The Changeling, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Santa Clarita Diet, Key and Peele and Better Off Ted.
He had a memorable scene in a 2002 episode of The Sopranos in which he played a Newark drug dealer named Angelo Davis who had threatened mob boss Tony Soprano (played by the late James Gandolfini).
Barrett’s also appeared in movies such as Dylan & Zoey, Horror Noire and 10.0 Earthquake.
He spoke with the outlet Daily Actor in 2018 about he he began getting recognized much more after appearing on 27 episodes of Timeless from 2016 until 2018.
Barrett played the role of Rufus Carlin in 2018 on the NBC time travel series Timeless
(L-R) Colby Minifie, David Reale and Barrett pictured on a 2022 episode of The Boys
‘I’ve never had a fan reaction or an interplay like that,’ Barrett said. ‘The closest … I was on Better Off Ted, and that was 2 seasons, and so I had sort of cult following there, but this definitely took it to a whole new level, because this was huge families, kids, moms.
‘I can tell my demographic, white dudes knew me from Sunny in Philadelphia, Black people knew me, because I’m Black.’
He continued: ‘But then this was the first time where it would be like some young 17-year-old white kid, they be like, “Are you Malcolm Barrett?”
‘I was like yeah, they were like, “My mom loves you.” And so that’s definitely a completely different world that I’m happy to be a part of.’
Dailymail.com has reached out to reps for the actor over the allegations.
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