Overview

• A Paris investigating judge ordered the 76-year-old actor to be tried before the Tribunal pénal de Paris on rape and sexual assault accusations from 2018.
• The case centers on Charlotte Arnould’s claim that Depardieu raped and assaulted her twice at his Paris home in the summer of 2018 after she sought acting advice.
• Arnould wrote that she felt relieved in an Instagram post, and her lawyer called the decision a moment of judicial truth.
• The Paris prosecutor had sought to send the case to trial last year, and the criminal court is reserved for serious offenses carrying potential sentences of more than five years.
• Depardieu denies all allegations, while in a separate case he was convicted earlier this year of on-set sexual assaults and received an 18-month suspended sentence with sex-offender registration.