The French actor has been accused of inappropriate sexual conduct throughout a number of filmingsThe actor touched them with out consent. None of the victims denounced and Depardieu denies the info The occasions occurred in eleven filmings carried out between 2004 and 2022
The actor Gérard Depardieu has been accused of sexual violence by 13 ladies, throughout the filming of 11 movies launched between 2004 and 2022, in keeping with an investigation by the French newspaper ‘Mediapart’ that additionally consists of different French media.
After the publication of the testimonies of those ladies, the actor (74 years previous) has denied any criminally reprehensible conduct. The ladies who’ve provided their testimony to ‘Mediapart’ went to courtroom however none of them filed a grievance, pondering that her phrase wouldn’t be sufficient in comparison with Depardieu’s.
The victims argue that they had been “fearing the results” for the way forward for their careers within the face of any public grievance, the newspaper particulars.
Actresses, make-up artists and strategies
All the victims, together with actresses, make-up artists or technicians, agree on the existence of the identical “mode of operation”, because the actor used to the touch components of their our bodies with out their consent, along with making obscene sexual feedback. They additionally reveal the identical response from some witnesses when somebody dared to complain. “Oh, okay, it is Gérard!” they’d reply.
Among the testimonies collected by ‘Mediapart’, is that of ‘Lyla’ (fictitious title to guard her identification), who was 24 years previous when she participated as an additional in 2014 within the movie ‘Big House’ (launched in 2015), directed by Jean-Emmanuel Godart, by which Depardieu performs a brothel proprietor.
“Without warning, Gérard put his hand below my gown. I felt his fingers making an attempt to sneak in to succeed in my panties,” she says, including that “his hand repelled him.” “But he continued, he turned aggressive, he tried to take off my underwear and contact me: I understood that he was not taking part in his character. If he had not stopped him, he would have succeeded,” he laments.
Just a few years later, ‘Lyla’ consulted a lawyer however didn’t go additional, pondering that the info had prescribed. Last March, after the interview given to ‘Mediapart’, she determined to ship her testimony to the French courts “to assist Charlotte Arnould”. “I wish to do my half as a lady in the identical business and I refuse to be a part of the issue by permitting such conduct by remaining silent,” she explains.
Depardieu has been charged since December 2020 with rape and sexual assault, following the grievance by actress Charlotte Arnould, who accuses the actor of getting raped her within the latter’s Parisian residence, in a mansion within the sixth district of the capital.
Depardieu denies the info
‘Mediapart’ signifies that they needed to get in contact with Depardieu however that he didn’t wish to meet with the journalists or reply their written questions. Through his attorneys, he “formally denies all prices that could be topic to legal legislation.”
The actor defines himself as a “gentleman who loves courtship and modest in sexual issues”
During his hearings as a part of the judicial investigation, the actor denied being “a predator” and described himself as “a gentleman who loves courtship”, “against all types of violence, whether or not verbal, bodily or psychological” and “extraordinarily modest” in sexual issues.
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