A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when ...

A film director has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old actress while working on a movie, in one of the first #MeToo-related verdicts in French cinema.

Adèle Haenel was the first prominent French actor to accuse the French film industry of turning a blind eye to sexual assault A French film director has been found guilty of sexually assaulting ...

PARIS – A Paris court found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial.

The 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' actress accused Ruggia of sexually assaulting and molesting her over the course of three ...

French filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, who was accused in 2019 by “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” actor Adele Haenel of having sexually abused her when she was a minor, was found guilty of sexual ...

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Haenel had accused Ruggia of abusing her from the age of 12 to 15, during and after the filming of “The Devils,” which tells the story of two abandoned siblings searching for their home ...