Actor Gerard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting 2 women
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Depardieu, 76, was convicted of groping a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of 'Les Volets Verts' in 2021.
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French film star Gerard Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of a movie in 2021 and will serve an 18-month suspended prison sentence.
He was also fined €29,040, and the court requested that he be registered in France’s national sex offender database.
Depardieu, 76, was convicted of groping two female employees: a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts.
The set dresser said Depardieu trapped her between his legs in a narrow corridor before grabbing hold of her hips and groping other parts of her body, including her chest. She also said he used an obscenity to ask her to touch his penis and suggested he wanted to rape her.
She told the court that the actor’s calm and cooperative attitude during the trial bore no resemblance to his behaviour at work.
The other defendant said that Depardieu groped her buttocks and breasts on three separate occasions on-set.
The case was widely viewed as a post-#MeToo movement test of how French society and its film industry would handle allegations of sexual misconduct involving high-profile individuals.
