French actor Gérard Depardieu has been taken into police custody over allegations of sexual assault. The 75-year-old actor was summoned to a Paris police station for questioning on Monday morning, broadcaster BFMTV said.
Her lawyer told BFMTV that her client was "passing through a corridor where Mr Depardieu was sitting. He grabbed her, trapped her between his legs and touched her body up to her breasts.In 2020, the actor was charged with the rape of actor Charlotte Arnould, when she was 22-years-old in 2018. The case remains open. A separate case was brought by actor Hélène Darras but was dropped by prosecutors for being past the statute of limitations.
Top news stories today The cinema legend was first accused in August 2018 by Charlotte Arnould, who alleged he raped her that year when she was 22 and anorexic. Since then, more than a dozen women have come forward with their own claims against him, and in 2020 Police charged Depardieu with rape and sexual assault.
In a 2014 interview, Depardieu said that he frequently consumed up to 14 bottles of alcohol a day - saying he would start at 10am with champagne, wine and pastis and end the day with vodka, whisky or both. Depardieu spent time in prison for car theft but was saved from homelessness by a gay theatrical talent-spotter who paid for him to study drama.
Depardieu prostituted himself to lorry drivers as a schoolboy and dug up graves to loot the dead of their jewellery and even their shoes. He left home at 12 and took up with two prostitutes, moving to Paris and breaking into acting, he admitted in his memoir, for the money.
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