Depardieu got an 18-month suspended sentence. The trial of actor Gerard Depardieu was seen by many as a pivotal moment in France’s reckoning of widespread rape and sexual assault in its film industry – a #MeToo of sorts. To make Depardieu pay for his alleged crimes seemed at first a difficult proposition, when even the country’s president was cheering him on, as we reported back in December 2023 in Macron in Hot Water for Defending Gérard Depardieu: ‘He Makes France Proud’ – French Film Star Is Facing an Array of Rape and Sexual Assault Allegations. But in the end, the film star was tried and convicted yesterday (13) by a Paris court of sexually assaulting two women on a film set. But he was only…
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