French prosecutors have for a second time requested cinema icon Gerard Depardieu be tried for the rape of an actor decades younger than him, they said Wednesday. Prosecutors had already requested ...

French actor Gérard Depardieu should face trial in a criminal court for allegedly raping and assaulting a young actress in 2018, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The prosecutor's ...

French prosecutors have for a second time requested cinema icon Gerard Depardieu be tried for the rape of an actor decades younger than him, they said Wednesday.

She said she weighed 37 kilos at the time. Depardieu's lawyer Jeremie Assous said his client was innocent. gd/ah/as/jj Originally published on doc.afp.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.