On February 6, Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against her former partner, the director Benoît Jacquot, for “rape with violence against minors”.
The actress had a relationship for several years with the latter.
When she was 15, he was 40. Since then, several personalities have followed suit, also denouncing toxic relationships with older men in the world of culture and, in particular, cinema.
Recently, actress Sarah Grappin accused filmmaker Alain Corneau of rape and sexual assault when she was 16 and he was 52. This Monday, February 19, singer Catherine Ringer gave a similar testimony on France Inter.
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Shake the old world
The singer of Rita Mitsouko opened up about an old relationship she had during adolescence.
“I found myself in what she was saying, really.
Except that she was beaten, he was much older,” she explained to Léa Salamé.
“But yes, this side, of this period where, under the pretext of art and evolution and then also of being provocative, of shaking up the old world, of doing things that moved forward, we were quite little young girls who went astray and who didn't run away, who didn't say no.
And who said yes, well, maybe.
And I’m part of it, that’s it,” she added.
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Thus, Catherine Ringer claimed to have been “a man’s sex slave” from the ages of 13 to 20.
A “situation of influence”, close to the experience of influence suffered by Judith Godrèche and many others.
The singer of
Andy
, now 66 years old, has not given the identity of her alleged attacker.
This February 19, she came to promote her new show, “The Eroticism of Living”, presented at the Théâtre de l'Atelier from April 1, highlighting poems by Alice Mendelson.
“I am introducing the texts of this woman who is 98 years old today and who still writes.
His poetry is both simple and sophisticated,” she said of the piece.