Gerard Depardieu: New sexual assault declare in opposition to French actor

Actor Gerard Depardieu is going through a brand new grievance of sexual assault, with a feminine film decorator alleging he groped her throughout filming in 2021.

In her grievance to the Paris prosecutor’s workplace, the 53-year-old girl accuses the French star of sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexist insults, her lawyer Carine Durrieu Diebolt mentioned.

The complainant claims the 75-year-old grabbed her and kneaded her waist, abdomen, and breasts throughout filming for the film Les Volets Verts.

Ms Durrieu Diebolt says different folks intervened to cease the alleged assault.

Two legal professionals for Depardieu didn’t instantly reply to emailed requests for remark, and their workplaces mentioned they weren’t out there to speak by cellphone.

Set within the Nineteen Seventies, the film – which interprets as The Green Shutters – is about an actor on the peak of his fame who discovers he might quickly die.

Depardieu was handed preliminary rape and sexual assault costs in 2020 following allegations from actress Charlotte Arnould. Ms Durrieu Diebolt can also be representing Arnould in that case.

Last yr, a French website revealed claims from 13 different ladies who labored with Depardieu and mentioned they’d skilled inappropriate advances, groping and gestures.

In October final yr, Depardieu wrote an open letter to Le Figaro – one in every of France’s best-known publications – to disclaim the claims of rape and sexual assault made in opposition to him.

In it, he mentioned he had “never, ever abused a woman” and that “hurting a woman would be like kicking my own mother in the stomach”.

Ms Durrieu Diebolt mentioned that the assertion was traumatic for her consumer and led her to file the go well with in opposition to him.

Depardieu beforehand denied all of the claims in opposition to him by a lawyer.

Depardieu is amongst France’s most well-known stars, recognized for movies comparable to Cyrano de Bergerac and Jean de Florette – in addition to the Hollywood hits Green Card and The Man In The Iron Mask.

He has appeared in 200 movies over six a long time and is amongst just a few French actors who’ve made a reputation for themselves in Hollywood.