Gerard Depardieu: Second complaint of sexual assault on the set of Disco

Accused since December 2020 of “rape and sexual assault” by actress Charlotte Arnold and accused of sexual assault by 15 other women, Gerard Depardieu, 74, is the subject of a second complaint.

Actress Helen Daras filed a complaint against the actor in September last year. The information has just been released France info.

This sexual assault complaint relates to the filming of the 2007 Fabien Onteniente film Disco. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to our colleagues that it received this complaint on September 10, 2023 and “Find out what direction he was given“.

“His complaint, which criticizes events that allegedly took place in 2007, may be temporary. The term of sexual assault is actually six years“, clarifies the site.

This follows the broadcast of the additional investigation “Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre” on Thursday, December 7 at 11:00 pm on France 2. Actress Ellen Daras testifies to this shooting in a documentary and reports the complaint. Shortly after appearing on the show.

“What really happened on the set and behind the scenes? We explored the very closed world of French cinema. If I pass the headliners in front of the camera and the tongues are hard to part; Under the cover of anonymity, some claim that many knew but said nothing, the actor was protected by his aura and his omnipotence in the 7th art.We can read in the summary of the program.

We’re releasing an unpublished story about a woman who says she was victimized by the actor, and we’re going back to this 1978 article, which went unnoticed at the time, in which the actor was involved in rape as a youth. which he competes with today.“

For information, the actor decided not to film again while waiting for the court verdict. He published an open letter and denied the accusations against him.