Gerard Depardieu, the French actor convicted in May of sexually assaulting two actors on a film set in 2021, has apparently not seen his final day in court. Fellow French actor Charlotte Arnould, 29, said Tuesday on Instagram that Depardieu, 76, will soon face trial for allegedly raping her in August 2018, when she was 22 and he was 70. Arnould publicly accused Depardieu, a friend of her father, of twice raping her at his Paris home, where she went to seek his advice. The case, initially dropped, was reopened in 2020 and Depardieu placed under formal investigation on suspicion of rape and sexual assault in 2022, per Reuters. Last year, prosecutors reportedly requested that the case go to trial.
Arnould wrote Tuesday that she'd received the investigating judge's indictment order, summoning Depardieu to trial before a criminal court in Paris, per the AP. "I think I'm having trouble realising how huge this is. I'm relieved," wrote the former ballet dancer, known for her work in theater and voice acting, whom Depardieu's defense called a "liar" during his sexual assault trial earlier this year. Arnould—who was in court when Depardieu was convicted of sexually assaulting two women on the set of Les Volets Verts, for which he received an 18-month suspended prison sentence—referred to that comment Tuesday, saying it was "outrageous and ... absolutely unnecessary to uncover the truth."
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