PARIS (AP) — French actor Gérard Depardieu acknowledged Tuesday that he aggressively subjected a woman who accuses him of sexual assault to vulgar and heated language and that he grabbed her hips but denied that his behavior was sexual as he testified for the first time at his landmark trial in Paris.
The woman told the court that the Oscar-nominated actor behaved “like a madman” who took “pleasure in frightening me.”
Day 2 of the Paris trial centered on the 76-year-old actor’s behavior during filming in 2021 of “Les Volets Verts” (“The Green Shutters”), where two co-workers allege that he groped them on the set.
Depardieu has denied assaulting the
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