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Isabelle Adjani indicted since October 2020 for fraud

2022-06-24T15:13:30.107Z


The boss of the Bestimage paparazzi agency, the queen of the gossip press "Mimi" Marchand, whose real name is Michèle Marchand, is also


The diva of French cinema is in the crosshairs of justice.

Actress Isabelle Adjani has been indicted for fraud after the complaint of a former consultant who accuses her of having falsified the repayment of her debts to her, a judicial source said on Friday, confirming information from Liberation.

According to the daily, this indictment took place in October 2020. "I am not commenting on this old case which is heading for a dismissal because there is no charge", declared his lawyer, Me Olivier Sorry.

The boss of the Bestimage paparazzi agency, the queen of the people press "Mimi" Marchand, whose real name is Michèle Marchand, is also being prosecuted in this case for complicity in fraud.

According to Liberation, it all started in 2011 when Sébastien G., a strategy consultant, was called upon to manage the actress' company, Isia Films.

"He opened a line of credit for her in her personal bank account, paid some of her taxes, had her assigned an American Express card," the newspaper said.

But relations sour when Isabelle Adjani would have spent the money without counting, according to the daily: “In July 2012, Sébastien G. withdrew the bank card which seems to function like a bottomless pit.

Four days later, he was dismissed from his role as manager of Isia Films”.

The actress then owes 157,000 euros that Sébastien G. would have advanced to her.

“To reassure her creditor, Isabelle Adjani would have sent her proof of payment by transfer, emails from the bank and other documents supposed to attest to the payment of the funds and her good faith.

But in reality, the money would never have reached its recipient,” writes Liberation.

Adjani against “Mimi”

Sébastien G. filed a complaint against the star in October 2015. According to the daily, the investigations would have shed light on the role of "Mimi" Marchand in the delivery of these false "proofs of payment".

"Michèle Marchand was indicted in this case about three years ago, for facts that date back several years, five, six, seven years," commented her counsel, Me François Blistène.

The two women – who have not been confronted – however oppose each other on the facts, mutually rejecting the responsibilities…

“Sébastien G. had filed a complaint against Isabelle Adjani, who implicated Mimi Marchand.

Since the indictment of my client, nothing has happened, neither real interrogation on the merits, nor confrontation with Ms. Adjani.

This case will disappear by itself over time, and concerns random facts,” he added.

The multi-caesarean actress is also the subject of a preliminary investigation opened for

"laundering tax evasion" at the National Financial Prosecutor's Office since 2016, when his name appeared in the so-called Panama Papers case.

The procedure is still ongoing.

Sole shareholder of a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven, she had assured when the case was revealed that this shell had never been used and that no bank account had been opened for her. .

It was initially a question of concealing for a film project "the identity of its beneficiary vis-à-vis a co-contractor", explained Le Monde at the time.

Source: leparis

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