French Actor Gérard Depardieu To Face Rape Trial In Criminal Court

Why did it take seven years to bring this to trial?

He admitted to raping women in the 70s when he was young. I remember reading that several times.

From "How Do We Handle the Rapist-Turned-Heartthrob," a 1991 Washington Post article about Depardieu:

[quote]M. Depardieu has a very sordid past. He trotted out more of it than he should have in a 1978 interview that was recently resurrected in Time magazine by Richard Corliss, who asked the actor about his gun-toting, thieving childhood. "What of his story that at 9 he participated in his first rape?" Corliss asked. " 'Yes,' he {Depardieu} admits. And after that, there were many rapes? 'Yes,' he admits, 'but it was absolutely normal in those circumstances. That was part of my childhood.' "

[quote]After the Time magazine story broke, there were the initial denials and then finally last week Depardieu's publicist acknowledged that "he's sorry, but it happened." Perhaps the most damning part of Depardieu's public pronouncements on his life as a rapist were in the 1978 interview. He said there were "too many {rapes} too count . . . . There was nothing wrong with it. The girls wanted to be raped. I mean, there's no such thing as rape. It's only a matter of a girl putting herself in a situation where she wants to be."

He is fat peeg

There was nothing wrong with it. The girls wanted to be raped. I mean, there's no such thing as rape. It's only a matter of a girl putting herself in a situation where she wants to be."

Fucking disgusting.

France still has a very, very sexist environment towards women - sexual harassment on the street is very common.

He has also become a tax-dodging asshole the past 15 years. But French court will probably give him a fine or something - seriously, they are so far behind.

Lol

Hopefully, he'll appear on Zoom to keep his foul body odor to himself.

Cyrano means no

He's an animal. I think he admits to drinking a case of wine per day. it's a wonder he's still alive.

She couldn't leave after the first rape? Was she chained to the bidet?

I liked it when he he fucked other guys in his old movies.

It is weird how she went back to his house a second time after the first rape only to be raped again. Girl, what was you thinking?

They’ll no doubt say this is another American import shoved on them by young radicals and they may not be wrong, but I don’t care —he is a pig.

He never met a dictator he didn’t love either.

Do I need to make the million-dollar question?

I love the photo they chose.

R5, I know there’s a stereotype that sexual harassment is more common and/or more acceptable in French society than it is in the U.S. But I’m pretty sure it’s as bad in the U.S.

I live in NYC and in my neighborhood I witness on an almost daily basis men being aggressively obnoxious with women who are merely walking down the street going about their business.

If I talked to and behaved around other men the way men in my neighborhood behave towards women, I’d likely be beaten up if not worse. But straight men act like that - grabby, vulgar, catcalling, and worse - with impunity. All the time.

R16 - ask women who have been to both. It's not even close.

R17 bullshit.

For R18

And another

And another for R18