New allegations of violent sexual abuse have been levelled against Jian Ghomeshi, the prominent Canadian broadcaster who was fired as a presenter of a flagship interview show.

The Toronto Star, which first detailed allegations by four women against Ghomeshi after the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) sacked him at the weekend from his cultural affairs show, Q, published a lengthy new story on Wednesday night with similar accusations from four more women, including the Canadian actor Lucy DeCoutere. The Huffington Post on Thursday printed a first-person account from another woman, Reva Seth.

All had similar stories of how, during sex, Ghomeshi was violent without their permission.

As the allegations mounted on Thursday, the crisis-management firm engaged by Ghomeshi announced it would not longer be working with him.

DeCoutere – who is a star of the Canadian comedy series Trailer Park Boys and a captain in the Royal Canadian Air Force – was the first of Ghomeshi’s accusers to allow herself to be named. On Thursday afternoon, a ninth woman, lawyer Reva Seth, joined her, publishing a blog post on the Huffington Post in which she said that she had heard DeCoutere on CBC’s The Current and decided to speak up