GERARD DEPARDIEU. The French actor has been indicted for rape and sexual assault. Questioned by the media, the Italian La Repubblica, Gérard Depardieu has denounced as “lies”.
Contents Biography of Gérard Depardieu A youth complicated Cyrano de Bergerac, The women in his life: The death of his son William His daughter Julie Depardieu His conversion to Islam, His political commitments with His fortune and his heritage Case of rape Film with Gérard Depardieu
[updated February 25, 2021 to 16h08] “there is no evidence, there is nothing against me, and so I am very serene”, said Gérard Depardieu in the columns of the media Italian It Repubblica, only a few days after his indictment for rape and sexual assault has not been publicized. If he admits to feeling “of sadness and puzzlement” in the face of this case, the actor, 72 years provides, while criticizing the stream media surrounding the case, that the accusations against him are “completely unfounded”. “For me, the investigation was closed for lack of evidence. In court, I will reiterate my innocence. I am innocent and I have nothing to fear.”
Gérard Depardieu has been accused of the December 16, 2020 for rape and sexual assault. This is what has been taught the AFP judicial sources on the 23rd of February 2021. As a reminder, the investigation, which began in 2018, has been discontinued by the public prosecutor of Paris in 2019. The complainant, however, is constituted as a civil party, which automatically leads to the reopening of the investigation, conducted by an investigating judge, in the summer of 2020. The magistrate in charge of the case considered, following an examination of the December 16, 2020, that there was “evidence of serious or consistent evidence” that the actor in his seventies, has been able to commit the facts denounced.
detail of the charges against Gérard Depardieu
In August 2018, a young actress of a twenty year denounces acts of rape and sexual assault to the police in Lambesc, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. She says she was raped twice by the giant of the French cinema in her parisian residence, in the summer of 2018. For its part, Gérard Depardieu denies firmly to his accusations. According to his attorney, Hervé Témime, the actor, 72-year-old “deny totally the facts alleged against him”. He “regrets” that “this information is made public.” With Franceinfo, he recalled that his client “denies firmly these facts and has the right to be defended and should be considered as innocent until proven guilty.” The review of Gérard Depardieu changes a lot of things in the case. First, the statute provides that the investigating judge in charge of the investigation, it was found that there was “evidence of serious or consistent evidence” against the actor. Moreover, the fact that Gérard Depardieu be put in consideration that it can defend itself actively in the course of the procedure. The review may also lead, in the long term, on a trial.
Biography of Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu, born 27 December 1948. Actor, producer, businessman, French, cultural ambassador of Montenegro and the Russian citizen, Gérard Depardieu often speak of him thanks to her many hats. Poor child, he became, through hard work, a strong actor in the French cinema. He has toured with some of the greatest filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
youth complicated © FAUX CATHERINE/SIPA
Gérard Depardieu grows up in poverty, with his father, a laborer and violent, and a mother at home. It is surrounded by five brothers and sisters. Going almost out of school, he leaves officially 13 years old, he is, in part, illiterate and a person who stutters. During his teens, to earn the money he makes from the smuggling and steals from time to time. He then goes a few odd jobs : an apprentice in a printing press group, Centre France, boxing illegal or bathing establishment at La Garoupe on the Cap d’antibes.
His debut as an actor and his first success
In 1963, he went to Paris and studied comedy at the Théâtre national populaire and then the course of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the théâtre Edouard VII. In 1970, he married Elisabeth Guignot this is especially Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda, for which he made the baby-sitter. At the same time, it catches up with its gaps in culture, plays great classical texts and corrects his speech and memory. In 1965, he made his first steps in front of the camera in the short film “The Beatnik and the Twink” Roger Leenhardt. He then small roles in “the cry of The cormorant in the evening above junks” by Michel Audiard and “A little sun in cold water” directed by Jacques Deray, in the early 70’s. It also plays to the theatre where he meets Marguerite Duras, who offers him a role in “Nathalie Granger,” and “The Woman of the Ganges”.
It is thanks to his role of nice rogue in “Balls”, by Bertrand Blier in 1974, Gérard Depardieu meets success. He then goes to the movies in the company of filmmakers and actors and actresses renowned. As well, he has played alongside Robert de Niro in “1900” by Bernardo Bertolucci and Coluche in “Inspector Burr,” by Claude Zidi. Although being faithful to Bertrand Blier, Gérard Depardieu turn to other French filmmakers such as Maurice Pialat with four films, Alain Resnais and François Truffaut, notably in “The last metro”, for which he received the Ce
