French prosecutors have requested rape fees in opposition to director Benoît Jacquot in relation to allegations by actresses Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy, in line with French media experiences.
Jacquot was taken into police custody on Monday for questioning on Le Besco and Roy’s accusations in addition to allegations by actress and director Judith Godrèche.
For now, the prosecutors haven’t pressed for fees in relation to Godrèche’s grievance. Jacquot has denied all of the accusations.
Godrèche was the primary actress to file an official grievance in opposition to Jacquot final February, shortly after publicly opening up about her relationship with the director within the late Nineteen Eighties, which she says started when she was solely 14 years outdated, and he was 40.
The actress now condemns the connection, saying she was beneath Jacquot’s management, and filed a grievance of “rape with constraint” in opposition to him in February.
Inspired by Godrèche’s transfer, Le Besco additionally determined to file a authorized grievance in Could, shortly after the publication of an autobiography.
Within the work, entitled Dire Vrai, Le Besco accused Jacquot of getting a “harmful maintain” over her in a relationship that started when she was 16 and he was 52, in the course of the shoot of his 2000 image Sade.
The actress, who’s the estranged sister of actress and director Maïwenn, recounted how she felt Jacquot took over her complete life over the course of the shoot.
“To say that Benoît raped me is apparent. However the phrase ‘rape’ is reductive. We think about a bodily act, a lady who’s taken by drive although she doesn’t need to. Earlier than bodily violating me, Benoît raped my thoughts,” she wrote.
“He received into it from the beginning of filming Sade, then somewhat extra, day after day, till he utterly gained me over. I used to be a teen and I gave him my full belief. He changed my father, my mom, any authority determine. On this method his rape can be incestuous.”
Individually, director Jacques Doillon was additionally taken into police custody on Monday for questioning on a grievance of “rape with violence” by Godrèche, associated to his habits on and off the set of the 1989 movie The 15 Yr Outdated Lady.
Jacquot’s lawyer confirmed to press that he had been allowed to return residence on Tuesday. Prosecutors have but to decide on the case.