A French decide has ordered that French actor Gérard Depardieu stand trial in a prison courtroom on expenses of rape associated to accusations by actress Charlotte Arnould, French media reported on Tuesday.
The choice comes some seven years after Arnould formally introduced rape expenses towards the actor in 2018.
The actress, whose father was an outdated buddy of the actor, accuses Depardieu of raping and sexually assaulting her twice in his Paris mansion in the summertime of 2018 after she went to him for performing recommendation.
The prison courtroom is France’s highest stage of courtroom reserved for crimes carrying sentences of greater than 5 years, if the accused is discovered responsible.
Information of the trial comes 4 months after a Paris courtroom discovered the actor responsible of sexual assault and gave him a 18-month suspended sentence associated to his conduct in the direction of two ladies on the set of the movie The Inexperienced Shutters in 2021.
That trial marked Depardieu’s first time in courtroom towards a backdrop of a minimum of 20 public allegations of sexually inappropriate conduct towards him, relationship again many years, though many allegations have solely come to gentle lately.
Depardieu continues to disclaim all of the allegations made towards him.
