Depardieu withdraws appeal against suspended sentence
The conviction to 18 months’ suspended imprisonment is therefore final, French media report.
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Gérard Depardieu will not appeal against his conviction for sexual assault. The French actor was sentenced to 18 months’ suspended imprisonment. The ruling is said to date from 2025.
Depardieu was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, suspended. The ruling is said to have been handed down in May 2025 by a court in Paris and concerned sexual assault against two women during film productions. An appeal had been lodged against the ruling.
French media reported on Friday that Depardieu is withdrawing that appeal. The decision comes shortly before the scheduled appeal hearing, which was due to begin on 16 November. The first-instance ruling will therefore stand, insofar as can be established from the available reporting.
The case concerned allegations by two women involved in the film production. Their full names are not given here. The court found Depardieu guilty; the women concerned were parties to the criminal case.
A suspended prison sentence means that the convicted person does not have to go to prison immediately, but that the sentence can be enforced under certain conditions if he commits further offences or breaches those conditions. The precise conditions and additional consequences of the French ruling have been described only partly in public reports.
The case has attracted considerable attention in France and abroad because Depardieu is one of the best-known actors in the French film world. Withdrawing the appeal brings the legal proceedings over this conviction to an end, but does not alter the fact that the case concerns allegations and a judicial ruling, not a general assessment of the film industry.
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The main development and the earlier conviction have been confirmed by several public French sources. Legal details that are not stated consistently in the sources have not been filled in further.
- confirmed Depardieu is withdrawing his appeal against the conviction. — Reported by Télérama and CG-TV. source
- confirmed He was sentenced to 18 months’ suspended imprisonment. — Télérama and TV5Monde describe the first-instance ruling. source
- confirmed The appeal hearing was due to begin on 16 November. — TV5Monde gives this scheduled date. source
Editor's note
The withdrawal of the appeal and the earlier conviction have been reported by several French news sources. The precise legal consequences have been described only to a limited extent and have therefore been worded cautiously.Sources
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