French Actor Depardieu Withdraws Appeal for Sexual Assault Conviction
The withdrawal leaves Depardieu’s 18-month suspended sentence and sex-offender registration in place after an appeals trial was due to begin next week.
- On Thursday, Mediapart published previously unseen 2011 footage showing 77-year-old Gérard Depardieu repeatedly touching a 22-year-old extra identified as Olivia on the set of the film Turf at Auteuil racecourse.
- Director Fabien Onteniente confronted Depardieu on the set after the incident, later describing the actor as 'sheepish, acting like a child who's done something wrong' when challenged about his behavior.
- The footage contradicts Depardieu's defense that he never touched a woman without consent, with 22 women accusing the actor of sexual violence since 2018.
- Separately, sources told AFP today that Depardieu is withdrawing his appeal of a 2021 conviction for assaulting two women on the set of The Green Shutters, making the original sentence final.
- The actor still faces a separate pending trial for allegedly raping actress Charlotte Arnould, while lawyer Jeremy Assous argues that 'from the moment you are accused of sexual assault, you are automatically convicted.
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New recordings and testimonies of a suspected sexual assault by Gérard Depardieu. The actor is said to have repeatedly touched a 22-year-old statistician under the belt during shooting.
In France, a parole sentence for sexual assault against Gérard Depardieu becomes final because he apparently renounces the appeal procedure. At the same time, a French media release a video from 2011 in which the former actor becomes sexually assaulted – in front of the camera.
Shots from a film set weigh heavily on Gérard Depardieu.
Gerard Depardieu withdraws conviction appeal
French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu is set to withdraw his appeal of a conviction for sexually assaulting two women on a film set, a source close to the case told AFP on Friday, ahead of a hearing next week. The withdrawal comes after a court last year handed the 77-year-old an 18-month suspended sentence and ordered him to register as a sex offender, marking a spectacular fall from grace for an actor who dominated French cinema for half a centu…
Gérard Depardieu has decided to withdraw his appeal against his conviction for sexual assaults against two women. The development makes the 18-month suspended prison sentence imposed on him in May 2025 by the Paris Criminal Court final. The appeal hearing was scheduled for November 16-20. However, as France Inter revealed, the 77-year-old actor ultimately decided not to proceed with the process. The official announcement of the withdrawal is exp…
His appeal was scheduled to begin on Monday. The sentence of 18 months' suspended imprisonment, handed down against Gérard Depardieu in 2025, is therefore final.
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