Thirteen women accuse the French actor Gerard Depardieu to have had inappropriate sexual behavior in the filming of 11 different productions between 2004 and 2022. The interpreter denies having engaged in criminal conduct.

These stories, published this Wednesday by the French newspaper ‘mediapart‘, add up to one judicial investigation that is open Depardieu for a alleged rapefollowing a complaint filed by actress Charlotte Arnould for events that happened in 2018.

Among the thirteen new testimonies (some of them anonymous and others under pseudonyms), three alleged victims have already provided their testimony to the Justice, but without filing complaints.

Among them are both interpreters as members of technical teams filming in productions such as the Netflix series ‘Marseille’ (‘Marseille’, 2016-2018). According to ‘Médiapart’, they have all done similar stories about Depardieu’s alleged way of acting and have said that the events occurred in public.

include touching without permission, taking advantage of their status of power and fame, and a aggressive behavior by the actor when his victims tried to reject him. Faced with these accusations, the actor’s lawyers, who was one of the best-known faces in French cinema worldwide for years, deny “any criminal conduct.”

The accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior are not the only controversies in which this face of the ‘Asterix and Obelix’ saga (1999-2012), who is currently 74 years old, has been involved. In 2013 he adopted Russian nationality in protest of the fiscal policies of the then-president, the socialist François Hollande, and regularly praised Vladimir Putin’s Russia as “a great democracy”. However, he has spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine.

016 is the hotline for victims of sexist violence. It is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The call is free and leaves no mark on the bill, although it must be removed from the last calls.