Rex Orange County Sexual Asault Allegations

English Singer, multi instrumentalist and songwriter known for the hits ‘The Shade’, ‘Pluto Projector’, ‘Bestfriend’ and had a recent album release called ‘WHO CARES’ Alexander James O’Conner has been charged with sexually assaulting a women on a six separate occasions in London.

In July 2020, O’Conner announced that he was canceling his upcoming tour dates in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. In a post shared to his social media pages Rex wrote: “It is a great deal of sadness to announce that due to unforeseen personal circumstances, I am having to spend some time at home this year and I will not be able to continue touring as planned.”

Following up a response: “This is the last thing I want to do,” he says. “ I love touring and I am so sorry to be letting anyone down. I look forward to getting back as soon as I can.”

What Actually Happened

The singer appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London to deny the allegations. After pleading not guilty to all six charges, O’Conner was released on unconditional bail ahead of a provisional trial date on Jan. 3, 2023. Hence the reason why Rex Orange County for “unforeseen personal circumstances” of canceling his tour was actually because the man could not leave the country was because of the sexual assault.

On June 1st, the 24 year old allegedly assaulted the woman twice in London’s West End and then four times the next day, that includes once in a taxi and three instances at his own home in Notting Hill. The woman is reputedly over the age of 16, which is the legal age of consent in the U.K.

FANS RESPONSE

This was truly a heart breaking moment for some fans and a shock to a lot, as fans tweet out their thoughts and emotions at this news.

Some fans like Nicole Ramirez tweets out sharing the uncomfortableness of having a tattoo inspired by his music of the now controversial artist. The former die hard fan said that the allegations made against the singer “disappointing.”

As a fan it was hard for her to separate the art from the artist she says, “it also makes you take off those rose colored glasses that I’m sure me and many other fans tend to put on for the people they enjoy.” Told on BuzzFeed News.

Another following tweet was made:

@rntng247: “Rex Orange County was literally the soundtrack to my life. I'm like not ok rn wtf so sorry for all of the victims I feel ill.”

Fans like Kiyah @K1vah also tweets out: “Me immediately removing all of Rex Orange County songs out of my playlist.”

As a person who wrote an article reviewing Rex’s album ‘who cares’ spending hours and hours listening to his songs and not listening to anything else. It made it really hard for me to still listen to his songs, especially the love songs that I express my relationship with. For me it was one of those moments of not being able to separate the art from the artist. Constantly skipping, removing his songs on my playlists and feeling guilty whenever I let a song play.

As of now there still isn’t any further details made public about the case. O'Conner did not release a statement besides the statement from the one that his representatives shared.