French movie legend Gerard Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a 2021 film set.
The actor, 76, has been convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of ‘Les Volets Verts’ (‘The Green Shutters’).
He has now been handed an 18-month suspended prison sentence.
The actor, who has appeared in over 200 films and television series, has been accused of improper behaviour by around 20 women, but this was the first case to reach trial.
Depardieu has denied wrongdoing.
Both of his victims had been working on the film in behind-the-scene roles and claimed they were too scared to speak out at the time.
‘I was petrified’, said one of the women, a set designer named Amelie.
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