13-05-2025
Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women
Gérard Depardieu has been convicted of sexually assaulting two women and sentenced to an 18-month suspended prison term in the highest-profile case involving abuse in the French film industry.
The 76-year-old actor was not in the Paris court to hear Thierry Donard, the presiding judge, deliver the verdict.
Donard said the actor clearly did not understand the meaning of consent. His two accusers — an assistant director, 34, named only as 'Sarah', and a set decorator, 54, named as 'Amélie', on the film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) — said they were relieved.
The court also fined Depardieu — a giant of the late 20th-century cinema known for films including Cyrano de Bergerac and Green Card — €29,040 for the offences and
