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Straits Times
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Italy judge gives Depardieu till October to settle Rome paparazzo case
Fabrizio Siggia, lawyer for Gerard Depardieu, arrives at court in Rome, Italy, on June 17, 2025, for the trial concerning charges related to the alleged assault of paparazzi photographer Rino Barillari. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane ROME - An Italian judge has given Gerard Depardieu until October to try to settle a case in which the French actor is accused of assaulting a veteran Italian photographer during an altercation in Rome last year. An initial hearing on Tuesday fixed a date of October 15 for the next session if Depardieu and Rino Barillari, a well-known paparazzo celebrity photographer, fail to settle out of court. Depardieu, 76, was not required to enter a plea at this stage, and was represented in court by lawyer Fabrizio Siggia. The case dates back to May 2024, when Barillari accused Depardieu of assaulting him in central Rome after he took photos of the actor and his partner at the Harry's Bar restaurant on Via Veneto. Barillari, who is 80, told Italian media at the time that he went to the restaurant when he heard that Depardieu was having lunch there with friends. Barillari took some photos before heading outside, after Depardieu's entourage repeatedly asked him to leave. The actor's partner, Magda Vavrusova, followed him to remonstrate, Barillari said, with Depardieu rushing out soon afterwards and punching him three times, leaving him with a cut to his head that needed medical attention. Barillari's account differed significantly from that of Depardieu and Vavrusova, who accused him of shoving them around. Separately, a Paris court last month found Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and handed him an 18-month suspended sentence. Depardieu repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in that case. His lawyer said he would appeal the court's decision. The actor has been a leading figure in French cinema, starring in more than 200 films over five decades, including Green Card, The Last Metro and Cyrano de Bergerac. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Reuters
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Italy judge gives Depardieu till October to settle Rome paparazzo case
ROME, June 17 (Reuters) - An Italian judge has given Gerard Depardieu until October to try to settle a case in which the French actor is accused of assaulting a veteran Italian photographer during an altercation in Rome last year. An initial hearing on Tuesday fixed a date of October 15 for the next session if Depardieu and Rino Barillari, a well-known paparazzo celebrity photographer, fail to settle out of court. Depardieu, 76, was not required to enter a plea at this stage, and was represented in court by lawyer Fabrizio Siggia. The case dates back to May 2024, when Barillari accused Depardieu of assaulting him in central Rome after he took photos of the actor and his partner at the Harry's Bar restaurant on Via Veneto. Barillari, who is 80, told Italian media at the time that he went to the restaurant when he heard that Depardieu was having lunch there with friends. Barillari took some photos before heading outside, after Depardieu's entourage repeatedly asked him to leave. The actor's partner, Magda Vavrusova, followed him to remonstrate, Barillari said, with Depardieu rushing out soon afterwards and punching him three times, leaving him with a cut to his head that needed medical attention. Barillari's account differed significantly from that of Depardieu and Vavrusova, who accused him of shoving them around. Separately, a Paris court last month found Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and handed him an 18-month suspended sentence. Depardieu repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in that case. His lawyer said he would appeal the court's decision. The actor has been a leading figure in French cinema, starring in more than 200 films over five decades, including Green Card, The Last Metro and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Hindustan Times
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Italy judge gives Depardieu till October to settle Rome paparazzo case
* Judge gives Depardieu until October to settle assault case Depardieu accused of assaulting photographer Rino Barillari * Paris court sentenced him in separate sexual assaults case ROME, - An Italian judge has given Gerard Depardieu until October to try to settle a case in which the French actor is accused of assaulting a veteran Italian photographer during an altercation in Rome last year. An initial hearing on Tuesday fixed a date of October 15 for the next session if Depardieu and Rino Barillari, a well-known paparazzo celebrity photographer, fail to settle out of court. Depardieu, 76, was not required to enter a plea at this stage, and was represented in court by lawyer Fabrizio Siggia. The case dates back to May 2024, when Barillari accused Depardieu of assaulting him in central Rome after he took photos of the actor and his partner at the Harry's Bar restaurant on Via Veneto. Barillari, who is 80, told Italian media at the time that he went to the restaurant when he heard that Depardieu was having lunch there with friends. Barillari took some photos before heading outside, after Depardieu's entourage repeatedly asked him to leave. The actor's partner, Magda Vavrusova, followed him to remonstrate, Barillari said, with Depardieu rushing out soon afterwards and punching him three times, leaving him with a cut to his head that needed medical attention. Barillari's account differed significantly from that of Depardieu and Vavrusova, who accused him of shoving them around. Separately, a Paris court last month found Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and handed him an 18-month suspended sentence. Depardieu repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in that case. His lawyer said he would appeal the court's decision. The actor has been a leading figure in French cinema, starring in more than 200 films over five decades, including Green Card, The Last Metro and Cyrano de Bergerac.
7NEWS
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Gerard Depardieu found guilty of sexual assault by French court
A Paris court has found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and handed him an 18-month suspended sentence, with the judge saying he appeared not to have grasped the 'traumatic' impact of his behaviour. In the highest-profile #MeToo case to come before judges in France, Depardieu repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. His lawyer said he would appeal the court's decision. Depardieu, 76, was a towering figure in French cinema, starring in more than 200 films over five decades, including Green Card, The Last Metro and Cyrano de Bergerac. His trial marked a moment of reckoning for the #MeToo protest movement over sexual violence, which has failed to gain the same traction in France as in the United States, although there are signs that social attitudes are changing. One of the two plaintiffs, Amelie K, a set decorator now aged 54, told the court the actor had groped her all over her body as he trapped her between his legs and made explicit sexual comments on set in 2021. 'I was terrified, he was laughing,' she recounted. Depardieu, who denied sexual assault, had argued before the court that he did not consider placing a hand on a person's buttocks sexual assault and that some women were too easily shocked. Handing down his sentence, the presiding judge, Thierry Donard, said of Depardieu: 'He does not seem to have grasped either the concept of consent or the deleterious and traumatic consequences of his behaviour towards the women he assaulted.' He ordered Depardieu, who was not in court for the verdict, to be put on a list of sex offenders. Depardieu has figured prominently in the debate over the #MeToo movement in France, as he faced a growing number of sexual assault allegations that put a spotlight on how women are treated in the movie industry. Prosecutors say he should face trial in a separate rape investigation following allegations brought by actress Charlotte Arnould, 29, who said she could not bear remaining silent any longer. More than a dozen women have accused Depardieu of sexual violence, though not all have filed complaints. Depardieu has consistently denied wrongdoing. 'Never, absolutely never, have I abused a woman,' he wrote in an open letter in the daily Le Figaro newspaper in October 2023. The Depardieu trial laid bare a generational divide in France over sexism. Earlier during the investigation, a group of 50 French stars, including Carla Bruni, wife of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, denounced what they called the 'lynching' of Depardieu. Brigitte Bardot, 90, told BFM TV this week that 'those who have talent and grope a girl get thrown into the gutter'. Women's rights campaigners say they have seen a shift in attitudes in France — notably following the case of Gisele Pelicot whose ex-husband was convicted last year of inviting dozens of men to rape her after drugging her unconscious. 'It's truly a victory and a step forward. We're making progress,' Amelie K. told reporters after the verdict.
Local France
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Local France
Prosecutors ask for 18-months suspended jail for French actor Depardieu
The lead prosecutor, in a closing statement, also asked for Depardieu to be fined €20,000 and pay damages to the plaintiffs, two women who accuse him of sexual assault during the filming in 2021 of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) by director Jean Becker. The plaintiffs are a set dresser, 54, identified only as Amelie, and a 34-year-old assistant director. Depardieu, who has acted in more than 200 films and television series, has been accused of improper behaviour by around 20 women but this is the first case to come to trial. Advertisement The 76-year-old is the highest-profile figure to face accusations in French cinema's response to the #MeToo movement, which he told the court on Tuesday would become "a reign of terror". Depardieu has denied any wrongdoing. "I'm vulgar, rude, foul-mouthed, I'll accept that," he told the court on Wednesday, but "I don't touch." Depardieu became a star in France from the 1980s with roles in The Last Metro, Police and Cyrano de Bergerac, before Peter Weir's Green Card also made him a Hollywood celebrity. He later acted in global productions including Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Ang Lee's Life of Pi and Netflix's Marseille series. The court is to hear the defence's closing statement next.
