Overview

• Gérard Depardieu and his partner Magda Vavrusova did not respond to a June 17 summons before an Italian judge, prompting a new hearing date set for October 15, 2025.
• Barillari, an 80-year-old photographer dubbed the “king of paparazzi,” alleges Depardieu punched him three times in May 2024 at Harry’s Bar on Rome’s Via Veneto.
• Depardieu and Vavrusova counter that Barillari was the aggressor, accusing him of violently pushing her and leading to her own complaint for violence.
• In mid-May, a Paris tribunal sentenced Depardieu to an 18-month suspended prison term after convicting him of sexually assaulting two women during a 2021 film shoot.
• The 76-year-old actor has faced accusations from around 20 women over recent years, though several cases were dismissed on statute-of-limitations grounds.