French actor Gerard Depardieu is dealing with an 18-month suspended jail sentence for the alleged sexual assaults of two ladies he labored with on the filming of “The Inexperienced Shutters” in 2021.

After a three-day-trial throughout which Depardieu denied all accusations, French prosecutors requested a suspended jail sentence together with a wonderful of 20,000 euros, in addition to an obligation to endure psychological therapy and registration within the intercourse offenders file.

Depardieu, lengthy thought-about a number one determine of France’s cinematic historical past who has starred in over 150 movies, together with classics resembling Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” has been accused by a set decorator and an assistant director on “The Inexperienced Shutters.”

Forward of the trial, the prosecutors workplace had instructed Selection the alleged sexual assaults had been thought-about “offenses punishable by as much as 5 years’ imprisonment and a wonderful of 75,000 euros.”

As a part of a separate case, the well-known French actor has been, since Dec. 16, 2020, indicted over allegations of rape and sexual assault filed by actress Charlotte Arnould in 2018.

Final August, the Paris public prosecutor’s workplace requested in a ultimate indictment that Depardieu be referred to the departmental felony courtroom to face trial for rape by digital penetration and sexual assault that allegedly occurred on Aug. 7 and 13 of 2018. The inspecting Justice of the Peace now has to determine what course to provide to the proceedings. Depardieu, who has triggered a watershed second for the #MeToo motion in France, was additionally accused by 13 ladies of sexually inappropriate conduct in a report revealed by French investigative information web site Médiapart in April 2023.

Extra to come back.