A musical comedy academy announced on Tuesday June 14 that it had suspended its own founder and artistic director, Pierre-Yves Duchesne, after accusations by students and teachers in the press of harassment, humiliation and sexual assault.
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The daily Liberation had revealed in an investigation published Friday evening about twenty testimonies revealing physical and verbal violence within the International Academy of Musical Comedy on the part of Pierre-Yves Duchesne who is also the vocal coach of Lara Fabian and the singer Amir.
“All the students are afraid of him”
AICOM, based in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), has decided to "
remove Pierre-Yves Duchesne from all his teaching and management functions
" to carry out an internal investigation, entrusted to an independent firm, of "
set up an independent psychological listening cell
”, according to a press release sent to AFP.
Session of forced kisses during rehearsals, a student forced to mime fellatio, raw sexual language, sexual harassment targeting a teacher ... "
All the students are afraid of him
," said the same teacher to Liberation.
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The artistic director of Aicom told the newspaper that the assertions were "
false, slanderous and defamatory
".
Still according to Liberation, Pierre-Yves Duchesne, 54, was fired from "
The Voice
" in 2021 after years of collaboration.
The first academy of its kind in France, AICOM was founded in 2004 by this former Belgian singer to offer “
French-
style ” training in musical comedy, a genre that remains the prerogative of Anglo-Saxon countries.
