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Verdict due in Gérard Depardieu trial for alleged sexual assaults

Actor could face up to five years in prison if convicted of assaulting two women during film shoot in 2021

Depardieu is charged with the sexual assault of a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during the shooting of the feature film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) in Paris in 2021. The state prosecutor Laurent Guy told the trial that Depardieu should be found guilty, denouncing what he called the actor’s “total denial and failure to question himself”. The Paris prosecutor’s office has requested Depardieu face a further trial for rape and sexual assault in a separate case brought by the actor Charlotte Arnould, but no date has been set.

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