French actor Gerard Depardieu faces new sex assault complaint

The Paris public prosecutor’s office was unable to confirm that the complaint had been lodged, and Depardieu’s lawyers did not comment.

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Amelie, 53, told online newspaper Mediapart that Depardieu made several vulgar remarks on September 10, 2021 then later “brutally grabbed her” and “kneaded her waist and stomach up to her breasts”.

The incidents were interrupted by a bodyguard on the film set of Les volets verts (The Green Shutters) in Paris, the report said.

According to Mediapart, another woman accused Depardieu of twice touching “her breasts and buttocks” on the same set in August 2021.

Repeated allegations against Depardieu have become a culture-war front line in France, dividing the world of cinema and pitting feminist groups against the actor’s defenders.