Gérard Depardieu plans to drop appeal against sexual assault conviction
The French actor received an 18-month suspended sentence in 2025 for assaulting two women on a film set.
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Gérard Depardieu plans to withdraw his appeal against his sexual assault conviction, AFP reported on Friday, citing a source close to the case. The appeal hearing had been due to begin on Monday, 16 November.
AFP said withdrawing the appeal would in effect make the conviction final. Télérama reported that prosecutors had confirmed the previous day that Depardieu’s lawyers intended to submit a withdrawal request. Citing BFMTV, the magazine said the request was due to be considered at the start of Monday’s hearing.
A Paris court found Depardieu guilty in May 2025 of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of Les Volets verts in 2021. It gave him an 18-month suspended prison sentence and ordered that his name be placed on the national sex offenders’ register.
Depardieu denied the accusations at his trial. He acknowledged grabbing the hips of one of the women, a set dresser, during an argument but denied that his behaviour was sexual.
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