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The Cannes Film Festival starts next week, on Tuesday (14 May), with the opening film Le Deuxième Acte from French absurdist Quentin Dupieux. However, it’s already off to a rocky start, with a French labour group representing freelance workers at film festivals calling for a strike. As if that wasn’t enough of a headache for the Croisette, speculation is mounting in the French media over rumours that a bombshell #MeToo exposé will drop on the day of the opening. Indeed, there are rumours of a mysterious list of 10 actors / directors / producers who are set to be accused of #MeToo allegations d...
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Prosecutors have asked for a September retrial for disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein during a hearing yesterday (Wednesday 1 May) in Manhattan. Weinstein’s first court appearance since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week – a ruling which shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the era of #MeToo, a movement that ushered in a wave of sexual-misconduct claims in Hollywood and beyond. One of Weinstein’s accusers, Jessica Mann, was in the courtroom on Wednesday and is prepared to testify again, Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blu...
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Prosecutors have announced that French actor Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults in 2021 of two women on the set of a film. This follows the news yesterday that the 75-year-old actor had been taken into custody by police for questioning in Paris. Depardieu’s lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais, declined to comment to reporters other than to say that the actor was no longer in custody. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the actor has been “summoned to appear before the criminal court” after the questioning. A trial will s...
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French media outlets are reporting that actor Gérard Depardieu has been placed in custody by police for questioning regarding allegations of sexual assault made by two women during movie productions. According to reports from local media, the 75-year-old actor was called in for questioning in Paris on Monday (29 April). Requests for comments from the Paris police, the Paris prosecutor’s office, Depardieu’s legal representatives, and a lawyer representing one of the alleged victims have not been immediately answered. Gerard Depardieu faces new complaint of sexual assault'Don't erase Gérard Depa...
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In a significant development, New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction. The decision, decided by a 4-3 vote, was anchored on the premise that the presiding judge in the watershed #MeToo trial had unfairly prejudiced the disgraced former movie mogul with what the court described as “egregious” improper rulings. Among these, the court highlighted a crucial decision allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against person...
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Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court yesterday (Monday 18 March) that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the Kelly at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans, including children, for decades. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean, seeking to reverse his 2021 convictions or to win him a new trial, tried to persuade three judges on the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that prosecutors improperly used a racketeering statute written to shut down organized crime ...
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South Korea's Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been found guilty of sexual misconduct, a local court said Friday, after he was charged with assaulting an actress in 2017. The actor was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. He has been also ordered to attend 40 hours of classes on sexual violence. “I am sorry,” he told reporters while walking into his first court hearing in February 2023. “I think I behaved badly.” Nevertheless, he continued to deny the indecent assault charge, which carried a potential prison sentence of up to 10 years. Prosecutors charged O in 2022 afte...
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A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, who has represented the victims of Jeffery Epstein and Bill Cosby, on Tuesday (12 March). The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The unnamed plaintiff who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was ...
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Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski goes on trial in France today over allegations he defamed British actress Charlotte Lewis, who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s. The 90-year-old director, who currently resides in Paris, is not due to appear in court, his lawyers have said. Lewis, 56, will be present at the trial. Lewis claimed in May 2010 that Polanski had sexually assaulted her during an audition at his Paris home in 1983, when she was just 16 years old. The actress, who later starred in Polanski's 1986 film Pirates, did not go to the police in the UK, but instead shared...
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Launched by American activist Tarana Burke in 2006, the #MeToo hashtag was popularised by American actress Alyssa Milano on social networks, and contributed to the downfall of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. It shook Hollywood to its core and sparked worldwide conversations about the sexism, sexual harassment and abuse suffered by women across the planet, no matter their industries. While the movement gained momentum in countries like the UK and Sweden, others like Italy and France have been lagging behind – even if some cases have started to shake things up, like the Til Schweiger accusa...
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