Gérard Depardieu Taken Into Police Custody For Questioning Over Sexual Assault Accusations
deadline.comFrench acting star Gérard Depardieu was taken into police custody in Paris on Monday morning for questioning over two separate sexual assault accusations, according to French media reports.
Local media reports said that the actor had been detained for questioning on accusations by two women related to events on the sets of Jean-Pierre Mocky’s Le Magicien et les Siamois in 2014, and Jean Becker’s The Green Shutters (Volets Verts) in 2021.
Depardieu already faces an official complaint of two acts of rape dating back to 2018 by actress Charlotte Arnould, which is currently making its way through the courts.
The actor vehemently denied the rape allegations and mounting sexual assault accusations against him in an open letter published in Le Figaro newspaper last October, suggesting his acts had been misinterpreted.
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