Actor Gerard Depardieu addresses the media through the press convention for the film ‘Saint Amour’ on the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016.
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Actor Gerard Depardieu addresses the media through the press convention for the film ‘Saint Amour’ on the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016.
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PARIS — French actor Gérard Depardieu will face a felony trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults in 2021 of two ladies on the set of a film, prosecutors introduced Monday.
The 75-year-old actor, who beforehand has denied any wrongdoing, was detained for questioning by police in Paris for a number of hours earlier Monday. His lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais, later declined to remark to reporters apart from to say that the actor was not in custody.
The Paris public prosecutor’s workplace stated in a assertion that the actor has been “summoned to appear before the criminal court” after the questioning.
Reporters wait exterior the police station the place French actor Gerard Depardieu is being questioned, Monday, April 29, 2024 in Paris.
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Reporters wait exterior the police station the place French actor Gerard Depardieu is being questioned, Monday, April 29, 2024 in Paris.
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A trial will begin in October “for sexual assaults likely to have been committed in September 2021” towards “two victims, on the set of the film ‘The Green Shutters,’ ” the assertion stated. It didn’t identify the alleged victims.
French newspaper Le Parisien has reported that a 53-year-old film decorator has alleged that Depardieu grabbed her and kneaded her waist, abdomen and breasts throughout filming for “Les Volets verts,” or “The Green Shutters,” in accordance with the lady’s lawyer, Carine Durrieu Diebolt, when she filed the grievance to the Paris prosecutor’s workplace in February.
In an open letter final October, Depardieu stated: “I have never, ever abused a woman.”
Depardieu has additionally been accused by greater than a dozen different ladies of harassing, groping or sexually assaulting them. He was handed preliminary rape and sexual assault fees in 2020 following allegations from actor Charlotte Arnould.
In that case, the investigating decide accomplished his probe on April 17 and transferred the file to the Paris public prosecutor’s workplace “to review and determine next steps in the proceeding,” the prosecutor’s workplace stated Monday.
Depardieu was lengthy seen as a nationwide icon in France. He has been a international ambassador for French film and loved worldwide fame with a number of roles in Hollywood.
The newest episode involving Depardieu got here as French cinema is roiled by a #metoo awakening following actor Judith Godrèche’s name for France’s film business to “face the truth” on sexual violence and bodily abuse. She made that attraction throughout a dwell broadcast in February of the Cesar Awards ceremony, France’s model of the Oscars.