Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot and accuses Jacques Doillon of sexual abuse

“All of a sudden he decides that there is a love scene, a sex scene between him and me…”

Tuesday February 6, 2024, the actress Judith Godreche (The Disenchanted, Ridiculous) filed a complaint in Paris against the French director Benoît Jacquot, for rape of a minor. The plaintiff’s lawyer, Me Laure Heinich, confirmed the information toAFP.

The actress recently spoke about this relationship with the filmmaker 25 years her senior during the Arte series: Icon of French cinema. The relationship reportedly began when the young actress was only 14 years old. At the beginning of January, she posted an Instagram story, then deleted, then reposted: “The little girl in me can no longer keep silent about this name. His name is Benoît Jacquot. He still manipulates those who might associate their names with mine. Bear witness. He threatens to take me to court for defamation“.

This speaking out was encouraged after the reappearance of an interview given by Gerard Miller in 2011, where Benoît Jacquot claimed “the cover” that cinema grants so that morals “of this type”namely, living with a minor, is possible – although he claims all the illegality of this cohabitation.

This description unfortunately resembles the facts described in 2020, by Vanessa Springora In The consentdescribing a relationship under influence at the age of 14, with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, 50 years old at the time. Reading his story, Judith Godreche has “believed that Vanessa Springora wrote a book about her“, told Wednesday in The world the 51-year-old actress.

This Thursday morning, the actress continues her denunciation by accusing the director Jacques Doillon of having sexually abused her, when she was only 15 years old, during filming The fifteen year old girl (1989). Guest on France Interthe 51-year-old actress revealed all the perfidy of a director ready to play a role in his own film to take advantage of his actress: “On the set, it was amazing. He hired an actor, we started filming and he fired him. And he put himself in place. And then all of a sudden he decides that there is a love scene, a sex scene between him and me.”said Judith Godreche.

“And I take off my sweater and I’m shirtless, and he gropes me and he makes out with me. And there’s Jane (Jane Birkin, Jacques Doillon’s companion) who is there behind, and it is an extremely painful situation for her”, continued the actress.

“But what does he want from you, Doillon?”, asks journalist Sonia Devillers. “The same thing”, replies Judith Godrèche. “Your body ? And so he abuses you?”, relaunches Sonia Devillers. The actress acquiesces, not without difficulty.

In The world, Benoît Jacquot77 years today, “strongly denies the allegations and accusations“. Requested Wednesday by theAFPthe filmmaker did not wish to react.