French actor G\u00e9rard Depardieu<\/a> is in police custody as investigators probe two separate allegations of sexual assault by two ladies who labored with the controversial actor on movie units in 2014 and 2021, in keeping with French media studies.<\/p>\n Depardieu, 75, has confronted sexual assault allegations from greater than a dozen ladies since 2018, blighting his popularity as certainly one of France\u2019s most well-known actors. Depardieu starred in The Man within the Iron Mask<\/em>, The Life of Pi <\/em>and Green Card<\/em>, and was nominated for an Oscar for his main function in 1991\u2019s Cyrano de Bergerac.<\/em><\/p>\n French broadcaster BFMTV<\/a> was the primary to report on Depardieu\u2019s detention by police. He was summoned to a Paris police station on Monday morning to reply questions associated to a sexual assault investigation, the broadcaster discovered from a legislation enforcement supply. Agence France-Presse<\/a> later reported the identical, additionally citing a police supply.<\/p>\n Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Investigators are reportedly wanting into allegations that Depardieu groped a set decorator whereas filming Les Volets Verts\u00a0<\/em>in 2021 and groped and made obscene remarks towards a manufacturing assistant in 2014 on the set of The Magician and the Siamese.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The set decorator, a 53-year-old girl, filed her criticism towards Depardieu<\/a> on Feb. 23, BFMTV reported on the time. She claims that she was strolling down a hallway previous Depardieu, who was sitting down, when the actor grabbed her together with his legs in a vice-like grip and refused to let her go. He then touched her with out consent and made sexual remarks. Another particular person on set needed to extract the girl from Depardieu\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n On Jan. 9, the manufacturing assistant filed her sexual assault criticism, alleging that Depardieu groped her at his mansion in Paris earlier than filming for The Magician and the Siamese\u00a0<\/em>started. The girl, 24 on the time, stated Depardieu groped her once more and made sexual propositions on the primary day of filming, in keeping with French newspaper\u00a0Le Courrier de l\u2019Ouest<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\t\tTrending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\u2018I still can\u2019t course of\u2019: Close pal speaks about teen killed exterior Halifax mall<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n \n\t\t\t\tPremier Moe responds to Trudeau\u2019s \u2018good luck with that\u2019 remark<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Depardieu has not but made a public assertion on the allegations however he has beforehand denied different claims of sexual assault. In a 2023 open letter<\/a>, Depardieu wrote: \u201cNever, ever have I abused a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n These newest accusations come after a wave of comparable allegations had been made towards Depardieu beginning in 2018, when then-22-year-old French actor Charlotte Arnould accused the Cyrano de Bergerac <\/em>star of raping her<\/a>. The case was initially dismissed, however Arnould refiled her criticism and Depardieu was charged with rape in 2020<\/a>. The case continues to be ongoing.<\/p>\n A stream of girls got here ahead after Arnould filed her criticism. In 2019, former actor Emmanuelle Debever claimed that Depardieu groped her once they had been alone in a carriage on the set of the 1983 film\u00a0Danton<\/em>. Debever died<\/a> by suicide final 12 months at age 60, the identical day {that a} TV documentary about Depardieu\u2019s sexual assault allegations aired.<\/p>\n In December 2023, Depardieu confronted a second official criticism of sexual assault, this time by actor H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Darras, who claimed Depardieu groped her on the set of the 2007 movie Disco<\/em>. The case was dropped<\/a> in January by French prosecutors as a result of it didn’t fall inside the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\")
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