Gérard Depardieu will request a postponement of his trial for health reasons

Dramatic twist. Gérard Depardieu will not appear this afternoon before the Paris criminal court which must judge him for two sexual assaults. “His doctors forbid him from appearing at the hearing, which is why he will request a postponement to a later date, so that he can be present (…) since he intends to express himself,” indicated Jérémie Assous, his lawyer, on France Info. “His state of health does not allow him,” added the advice of the 75-year-old actor.

Gérard Depardieu is accused of sexual assault on two women during the filming of Green Shutters, by Jean Becker, in 2021.

One of these two women, a film decorator, filed a complaint in February 2024 for sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexist insults, which led to the opening of an investigation. She denounced facts dating back to September of that same year, which allegedly took place in a private mansion in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

A trial for rape also required

The actor was also to be tried this Monday for sexual violence denounced in a complaint by another woman, an assistant director on the same film. This filming also marked the actress Anouk Grinberg, who spoke of “salaceries” on the part of Gérard Depardieu “from morning to evening”, in an interview with AFP. “When film producers hire Depardieu on a film, they know they are hiring an aggressor.”

A figure in French cinema known throughout the world, Gérard Depardieu was accused of identical behavior by around twenty women. The actress Charlotte Arnould was the first to file a complaint. In August, the Paris prosecutor’s office requested a trial for rape and sexual assault against the actor.