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French actor Gérard Depardieu is in police custody in Paris, staying questioned about allegations of sexual assault, CNN affiliate BFMTV documented on April 29. Depardieu turned himself in for questioning about two alleged assaults on film sets. Just one of the alleged assaults happened in 2022 on the set of The Environmentally friendly Shutters, and the other was on 2015’s The Magician and the Siamese, according to Assortment. Depardieu is nevertheless facing a 2018 accusation of rape by actress Charlotte Arnould, whilst yet another case filed by actress Hélène Darras was dropped in January 2024 owing to the statute of constraints on the alleged 2007 assault. In 2013, Médiapart published an open letter by 13 girls accusing Depardieu of sexual violence. Depardieu has denied all of these allegations.
