French director Christophe Ruggia has been given a two-year custodial sentence under house arrest with an electronic bracelet with another two years suspended following a landmark trial in which he was found guilty of sexual assault accusations by actress Adèle Haenel. The Paris prosecutor's…

Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset says she feels "unsympathetic" towards women who complained of harassment during the advent of the #MeToo movement, saying she feels women are partially to blame for their treatment. In an interview with Page Six, the British actress who has made her home in the…

The Paris prosecutor’s office has requested five years in prison, with three years suspended, for French director Christophe Ruggia in relation to accusations by actress Adèle Haenel that he sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. The sentence request was made on the final day of a dramatic…

The trial of French director Christophe Ruggia, who is accused of sexually assaulting Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor, kicked off in Paris on Monday. The two-day hearing comes five years after Haenel went public in 2019 with accusations against Ruggia in an…

Nearly 17 years later, Rebecca Hall has more complex feelings about her professional association with Woody Allen than she previously stated. After donating her pay from Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York to Time’s Up in 2018 and stating she was “profoundly sorry” for working with him, the Golden…

Going towards Donald Trump’s second  inauguration on January 20, 2025, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the often blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten…

Gérard Depardieu will not attend his trial on charges of sexual assault, related to events on the set of the film The Green Shutters in 2021, which is due to kick off in Paris on Monday afternoon. The French actor’s lawyer Jérémie Assous said the Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac star had been…

UPDATED with more details: A fragile-looking Harvey Weinstein showed up in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday morning for proceedings in his upcoming new New York sex crimes trial. Entering the hearing in a wheelchair through a side door, it was the first public appearance of the much accused and…

As the charges mount against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Bill Maher wants to know how he got away with it for so long. On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian caught up with writer Fran Lebowitz about various current events, including Combs’ recent arrest by FBI agents in New York…

French prosecutors have requested rape charges against director Benoît Jacquot in relation to allegations by actresses Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy, according to French media reports. Jacquot was taken into police custody on Monday for questioning on Le Besco and Roy's accusations as well as…

French directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon have been taken into police custody for questioning on accusations of sexual assault made against them by actress and director Judith Godrèche. French media reported that both men were being questioned by the Paris branch of France's…

James Bond actress Léa Seydoux says French president Emanuel Macron's statement in support of Gérard Depardieu gives "a very bad image for France." Depardieu will face a criminal trial later this year over charges of sexual assault of two women on a movie set in 2021. The 75-year-old actor has…