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Gérard Depardieu has broken his silence over accusations of rape and sexual assault made against him in recent years, addressing the cases in an open letter in Le Figaro newspaper.

The Paris prosecutor’s office has requested an 18-month suspended prison sentence and a €20,000 fine for actor Gérard Depardieu following his sexual assault trial this week related to events on a 2021 film shoot.

Gérard Depardieu will not attend his trial on charges of sexual assault, related to events on the set of the film The Green Shutters in 2021, which is due to kick off in Paris on Monday afternoon.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After a lengthy investigation, Paris prosecutors have requested that Gerard Depardieu stand trial over allegations of rape by digital penetration and sexual assault made by actor Charlotte Arnould. In a statement sent to Variety today, the Paris Prosecutors’ Office said that it has “requested the referral of Gerard Depardieu to the departmental criminal court to be tried for rape by digital penetration and sexual assault on Aug.

The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has requested that actor Gérard Depardieu stand trial in relation to rape allegations by actress Charlotte Arnould, French media reported on Thursday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has clarified comments he made last year about Gérard Depardieu which seemed to suggest his support for the actor in the face of a tide of sexual assault accusations, which the latter has denied.

Jean de Florette and Cyrano de Bergerac, was summoned for questioning by French police today (April 29) regarding allegations from two separate women dating from 2014 and 2021.Depardieu is yet to comment on the allegations, though has previously denied other accusations of sexual assault.The 2021 complaint that the actor is being questioned about was filed earlier this year, with the woman – a set designer – claiming that Depardieu assaulted her while working on 2022’s Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters).According to her lawyer, the actor was “passing through a corridor where Mr Depardieu was sitting” when he “grabbed her, trapped her between his legs and touched her body up to her breasts” (via BFMTV and BBC News).“She felt completely powerless, incapable of escaping this trap,” they added.The second woman, who filed a police complaint earlier this year, claimed that while she was working as an assistant on 2015’s Le Magician et le Siamois (The Magician and the Siamese), Depardieu grabbed her body all over and made “inappropriate” comments.Depardieu was placed under formal investigation over the alleged rape and sexual assault of actor Charlotte Arnould in 2020, with the case remaining open.

French actor Gérard Depardieu has been taken into police custody over allegations of sexual assault. The 75-year-old actor was summoned to a Paris police station for questioning on Monday morning, broadcaster BFMTV said.

French 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.

Alex Ritman Gerard Depardieu has been taken into police custody in Paris to face questioning over sexual assault allegations. The lawyer for the French actor told CNN affiliate BFMTV that the 75-year-old presented himself at a Parisian police station on Monday, where he’s to be questioned over sexual assault allegations from two women.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French prosecutors have dismissed the complaint filed by French actor Hélène Darras alleging that Gerard Depardieu sexually assaulted her during the filming of “Disco” in 2007. In a statement sent to Variety, the prosecutors’ office said the complaint filed on Sept.

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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent A decade ago, Gerard Depardieu played a character inspired by Dominique Strauss-Kahn — the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund who was accused of assaulting a hotel maid — in Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York.” In an ironic twist, the iconic French actor has now become the poster boy for the country’s #MeToo movement, having been charged with rape and faced with over a dozen sexual assault allegations. But the French remain divided over him due to his profile as a mascot of the country’s cinematic history.

Some 600 French art and entertainment world figures have signed a “counter-petition” decrying moves to defend iconic actor Gérard Depardieu in the face of multiple accusations of sexual assault and one of rape.

Ethan Shanfeld Fifty-six French stars, including Carla Bruni, Charlotte Rampling and Carole Bouquet, signed an open letter defending Gerard Depardieu, the Oscar-nominated actor who has been charged with rape and accused by more than a dozen other women of sexual assault, harassment or groping. The essay, published in the right-wing French newspaper Le Figaro, reads, in part: “We cannot remain silent in the face of the lynching targeting him, the torrent of hate being dumped on his personality” (via AP). “When Gerard Depardieu is targeted this way, it is the art [of cinema] that is being attacked.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French broadcaster France Televisions has been blamed by supporters of Gerard Depardieu, the Oscar-nominated actor of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” for contributing to the downfall of one of country’s most iconic actors with a bombshell documentary about his history of sexual abuse allegations which aired on Dec. 7.

French President Emmanuel Macron has come out in support of Gérard Depardieu whose star has fallen in France in recent days following the airing of a documentary investigating multiple allegations of sexual assault against the actor.

Libération on Thursday, Debever died on December 6 in hospital after she was found in the River Seine in Paris. Earlier reports suggested she had died on December 7, but this was later corrected by Debever’s sister on Instagram.The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to “research the circumstances that could have led” to the actor’s death.Debever starred in a number of French films throughout the 1980s, including 1983’s Danton opposite Depardieu.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Gerard Depardieu, who has already been indicted on rape charges in connection to a 2018 case, is facing more sexual assault allegations in a new complaint, Variety has confirmed. Hélène Darras, a French actor, has filed a police complaint alleging that Depardieu sexually assaulted her during the filming of “Disco” in 2007.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French actor Gerard Depardieu, who is indicted on rape and sexual assault charges in connection to a 2018 case, has published an open letter claiming he’s “neither a rapist, nor a predator.” In the brief letter, published in Le Figaro newspaper on Oct. 1, Depardieu alluded to the allegations of rape and sexual assault tied to a 2018 lawsuit filed by Charlotte Arnould, whose parents are old friends of his. Without naming Arnould, Depardieu says “a woman came to (his) home a first time, lightly, and willingly stepped into (his) bedroom.

French actor Gérard Depardieu has lost an appeal in a case of alleged rape and sexual assault, and remains under investigation, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed today according to Paris Attorney General Rémy Heitz, local media is reporting.