Benoit Jacquot, a French film director rapist, has been charged with raping actors Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy in a major #MeToo case that has devastated French cinema.
An investigating judge charged famed arthouse film director Benoit Jacquot with alleged rape on Wednesday, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, in the latest high-profile case in France’s #MeToo movement.
Benoit Jacquot, 77, has been charged with raping actors Julia Roy (now 34) in 2013 and Isild Le Besco (now 41) between 1998 and 2000, according to reports.
He was to be released after two days of questioning in detention but would remain under judicial monitoring, it said.
Investigators initiated an inquiry after Judith Godreche, 52, made a complaint against Benoit Jacquot earlier this year, stating that he assaulted her during a relationship that began in the 1980s when she was 14 and he was 25 years older.
Le Besco, 41, had filed a lawsuit for claimed rape during her own relationship with Benoit Jacquot, which began while she was minor.
And Roy, 34, accused the director 42 years her senior of sexual assault in “a context of violence and moral constraint that lasted several years,” according to a source familiar with the matter. She appeared in four of his films, released between 2016 and 2021.
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