Last year, a criminal enquiry was also opened into the suspected suicide of a French actress who had accused Mr Depardieu of sexual violence.
It was feared that the last hours of Emmanuelle Debever, 60, may have been linked to the multiple abuse accusations levelled by women against Mr Depardieu.
She died on December 7th – the exact day a new documentary entitled Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre was broadcast across France.
It contained disturbing details of an alleged attack by Mr Depardieu on Ms Debever, when she was still a teenager.
In December, another French actress filed a formal sex attack complaint against Mr Depardieu, saying he treated her like “a piece of meat”.
Paris prosecutors confirmed that Hélène Darras, 43, reported Mr Depardieu in September.
The pair appeared together in the 2007 film Disco, when Darras was 26, and allegedly assaulted.
Waiving her legal right to anonymity, Ms Darras told the same Further Investigation (Complément d’enquete) documentary series: “He [Depardieu] is unmanageable.
“He looks at me as if I were a piece of meat. I have an ultra-tight dress, he pulls me closer to him by the waist, then he runs his hand over my hips, over my bum.”
And in December 2023, Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza filed a complaint in Spain against the actor for rape, for acts dating back to 1995 in Paris.
In the same month, French President Emmanuel Macron sparked fury by defending Mr Depardieu.
Mr Macron appeared on a TV chat show and said he detested the actor being subjected to a “manhunt”.
