The French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting the actor Charlotte Arnould at his Paris home in 2018.

Depardieu, France’s biggest film star, has been under investigation in the case since 2020. A trial date has not yet been set.

In May a Paris court handed the 76-year-old an 18-month suspended sentence in a separate case in which he was convicted of sexually assaulting two women on a Paris film set in 2021.

Arnould, whose father was a friend of Depardieu, reported the actor to police in August 2018, days after the alleged attacks. Arnould was 22 at the time, and Depardieu was 70.

In an open letter to Le Figaro in October 2023, Depardieu denied the allegations, saying any encounter with Arnould had been consensual. “N

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