Based on Elle journal, which publishes the testimony of 9 girls, the details denounced date again principally to the Eighties and 90s and haven’t been the topic of complaints.
On the eve of the Cannes Movie Competition, 9 girls, most anonymously, accuse Alain Sarde, a serious French movie producer, of getting raped or sexually assaulted them after they have been minors or younger actresses, within the girls’s journal ELLE Monday.
The details denounced date again principally to the Eighties and 90s and weren’t the topic of complaints, based on the journal.
An actress from “TV sequence from the Nineties-2000s” confides underneath the primary identify “Elsa” how the producer, now 72 years outdated, allegedly raped her when she was 15, in 1985, underneath the pretext of knowledgeable appointment for a task in his personal condominium within the eighth arrondissement of Paris.
Different girls, whose first names have been modified, denounce rape, tried rape or what may quantity to tried pimping.
His lawyer denounces “false” accusations
Actresses, who declare to have seen their careers come to a whole halt and to have obtained no help from their brokers in whom they generally confided, describe an similar modus operandi: invites to the producer, makes an attempt at seduction, supplied goodies and assaults.
Contacted, the producer’s lawyer, Jacqueline Laffont, didn’t reply instantly.
In ELLE, Me Laffont denies these “false” accusations, which attribute to him behaviors which he disapproves and that are completely overseas to him. (Alain Sarde) refutes them with the best firmness and affirms to have by no means used the slightest violence or constraint in his relationships with girls whose consent has at all times been important to him,” provides his counsel.
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Dismissal of pimping case
The producer was indicted for “rape” in 1997 in a pimping case involving political, inventive and sporting figures in France and internationally. He benefited from a dismissal of the costs virtually two years after being implicated by two younger girls, heard as witnesses within the context of the dismantling of a luxurious prostitution community in Paris.
Alain Sarde began in cinema alongside Jean Yanne then labored as a collaborator with Roman Polanski. He then produced movies by André Téchiné, Bertrand Tavernier and Jean-Luc Godard.
The 77th Cannes Movie Competition opens Tuesday in opposition to a backdrop of rumors linked to #MeToo, in a context of freedom of speech carried particularly by the actress Judith Godrèche, who accused two figures of auteur cinema, Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon.
The latter will current on Wednesday a brief movie, “Me Too”, produced with a thousand victims of sexual violence who responded to her name.
