Overview
- A source told AFP on Friday that Depardieu will withdraw his appeal, which will render the lower-court verdict on the sexual assault charges final.
- The original 2025 judgment gave him an 18-month suspended sentence and ordered him to register on France’s sex-offender list.
- The conviction stemmed from claims by two women who worked on the 2021 film Les Volets Verts, a set dresser known as Amelie and an assistant director.
- Depardieu denies the allegations and still faces a separate rape indictment brought by actor Charlotte Arnould, with a decision on his appeal against referral to criminal court due on November 26, 2026.
- The verdict also included a penalty for 'secondary victimisation,' a sanction tied to the defence team’s treatment of the plaintiffs, and the final ruling will shape both his legal obligations and his public standing in France’s wider #MeToo-era reckoning.