# A Paris court has handed French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu an 18-month suspended sentence after convicting him of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in 2021. The court also ordered that Depardieu, who was not present for the verdict, be registered as a sex offender, marking a spectacular fall from grace for the 76-year-old who has dominated French cinema for half-a-century. Depardieu, who has acted in more than 200 films and television series, is the highest-profile figure caught up in France’s response to the #MeToo movement.
French actor Gerard Depardieu handed suspended sentence for sexual assault