The ‘102 Dalmatians’ actor is questioned for sexual assault – El Financiero

The French actor Gerard Depardieu He went this Monday to a Paris police station where he had been summoned to be interrogated under arrest due to the accusations of two women who claim to have suffered sexual assaults by the French actor in two different shoots, one in 2014 and another in 2021.

The information was revealed by the channel BRFMTVwhich specified that the two women claim to have been touchedsomething that Depardieu denies.

What is Gérard Depardieu accused of?

The first of these shoots was The magician and the Siamoisby director Jean-Pierre Mocky, and the second by Les Volets vertsby Jean Becker.

In the latter case, the complainant is a 53-year-old film decorator that, according to her testimony, one day the actor blocked her with his legs when she was sitting in a hallway, began to grope her and made an openly sexual comment to her.

In fact, this is the third procedure that the French Justice has open against Depardieu (75 years old) for sexual assaults.

The other two are an accusation for sexual assault and rape of the actress Charlotte Arnold, admitted in 2020; and the investigation into the 2014 sexual assault complaint filed by a former assistant, who was 24 years old at the time.

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In addition, the 75-year-old actor has been publicly accused by fifteen women for his cinappropriate sexual behavior. Two of the last women to do so were the French actress Hélène Darras for some events in 2008 and the Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza for alleged rape in 1995.

Who is Gérard Depardieu?

Gérard Depardieu is an actor, director and producer who was born on December 27, 1948 in France, he was married to the actress Elisabeth Depardieu.

As a performer, he is known for around 250 productions such as:

• The man in the iron mask (1998).
• 1492: The conquest of paradise (1992).
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1998).
• 102 dalmatians (2000).
• Rasputin (2011).