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muriel_volestrangler

(104,720 posts) Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:00 AM Sep 2

Gérard Depardieu to face trial over rape and sexual assault allegations

Source: BBC

French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault in 2018.

His accuser, actor Charlotte Arnould, said she was relieved the case was going to court, seven years after she filed a complaint.

Depardieu, 76, has denied the charges, insisting his relationship with Arnould was consensual.

He was convicted in May of sexually assaulting two members of a film production crew four years ago - and placed on a list of sex offenders, but not jailed. He had denied their allegations.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v2w8m88no

From accusations of assault and rape by digital penetration (ie what Trump did - that's why he's a rapist) in 2018.

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Gérard Depardieu to face trial over rape and sexual assault allegations (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2 OP

Something about life and art imitating each other SpankMe Sep 2 #1

7 years she had to wait. Passages Sep 2 #2

In France they treat him like a major celebrity ... like Robert DeNiro maybe FakeNoose Sep 2 #3

Shameful. Passages Sep 2 #4

Didn't he move to Russia about ten years ago? marble falls Sep 2 #5

The full invasion of Ukraine in 2022 seems to have gone too far for him muriel_volestrangler Sep 2 #6

T'anks! marble falls Sep 2 #8

I remember when he moved in protest to French taxes PatSeg Sep 2 #7

What a pig! TexasBushwhacker Sep 2 #9

SpankMe

(3,599 posts)

1. Something about life and art imitating each other

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:44 AM

Sep 2

Depardieu starred in a movie called "Welcome to New York" in 2014, where he plays a French diplomat (or something like that) who is accused of raping a maid at his hotel and is arrested. The rape scene is quite direct. The movie was based on a true story of a French government official, last name Strauss-Kahn, who was alleged to have done the same thing a few years prior.

I remember the news story, because I think Strauss-Kahn returned to France while the investigation was playing out as the situation became complex due to France's extradition laws, diplomatic immunity, etc.

Passages

(3,604 posts)

2. 7 years she had to wait.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:22 AM

Sep 2

Why is this man even free?

FakeNoose

(38,640 posts)

3. In France they treat him like a major celebrity ... like Robert DeNiro maybe

Reply to Passages (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:29 AM

Sep 2

... despite the fact that Depardieu is a disgusting pig who hasn't had a hit movie in 30 years.

Passages

(3,604 posts)

4. Shameful.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:45 AM

Sep 2

marble falls

(68,571 posts)

5. Didn't he move to Russia about ten years ago?

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:48 AM

Sep 2

muriel_volestrangler

(104,720 posts)

6. The full invasion of Ukraine in 2022 seems to have gone too far for him

Reply to marble falls (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:13 PM

Sep 2

so I suspect he doesn't live there now:

The Kremlin has hit back after French actor Gerard Depardieu accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "crazy, unacceptable excesses" in Ukraine.

Depardieu said the Russian people were not responsible for their president's behaviour.
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In 2015, Ukraine banned him from entering the country for five years after he supported Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Despite this, the actor denounced the war in Ukraine shortly after it began in February and called for negotiations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60954565