Voice actor Johnathon Rees (who goes by his stage identify, Greg Ellis) was arrested by the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office final week on numerous completely different fees associated to harassing his ex-girlfriend and threatening her with revenge porn. Rees voiced the character of Cullen Rutherford in Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Rees’ fees embody three counts of coercion, one depend of illegal surveillance, and one depend of aggravated harassment and illegal dissemination or publication of an intimate picture. The costs are tied to a breakup in 2022, throughout which he reportedly threatened to publish “revenge porn” of his ex. Rees was additionally charged with perjury and “providing a false instrument for submitting,” which refers back to the act of knowingly submitting a falsified doc to a public workplace or authorities company with the intention of getting or not it’s accepted as an official report. The false submitting and illegal surveillance fees are each felonies, whereas the others are categorised as misdemeanors.
Per court docket paperwork, Rees was in a relationship with one Jane Doe from April 2016 to September 2022. On September 6, Doe broke up with Rees and reduce off all communication with him. The 56-year-old actor allegedly responded to the breakup by partaking in a harassment marketing campaign (together with threats of self-harm and threats of posting intimate pictures of Doe) in an effort to get his ex to answer his messages. In his preliminary assertion, Rees acknowledged that he’s a “public determine” and famous that he has greater than 65,000 followers on Twitter and 17,000 followers on Instagram.
In keeping with court docket paperwork, inside a month of Doe breaking apart with him, Rees started messaging Doe’s family and friends, sharing private info and illicit pictures of her.
In November 2022, Rees testified in open court docket, the place he admitted to trying to make use of revenge porn to pressure Doe into responding to him. Rees was hit with a home violence restraining order in consequence. A number of days later, on November 25, Rees allegedly tried to intimidate a third-party witness to stop them from testifying towards him. On November 26, Rees made a publish to social media claiming he would reveal the plaintiff’s identification.
After receiving a Discover to Seem earlier this week, Rees turned himself into the Chenago County Sheriff’s Workplace, the place he was processed arraigned, and launched. He’s scheduled to seem in court docket at a later date.
This is not the primary time Rees has discovered himself in sizzling water. On Dragon Age Day in 2020, Ellis posted a 40-minute rant–while carrying a cosplay of his Dragon Age character–in which he lambasted numerous events (together with former Dragon Age govt producer Mark Darrah, ladies, and Dragon Age followers) for partaking in “cancel tradition” after being known as out for his sexist and transphobic views.
Rees’ character didn’t seem in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.