Known for presenting the show “Dance with the stars” on TF1 and for being a brilliant radio presenter, Vincent Cerutti is making headlines today for a sad reason. According to The Parisianthe 41-year-old host is accused of sexual assault on a former colleague.
The facts date back to 2015, when he hosted the morning show on the radio Darling FM, alongside Laurie Cholewa. In January of this year, a 34-year-old young woman was recruited to work on the radio switchboard. Very quickly, the host would have slipped and behaved inappropriately towards this new recruit. “You have a nice ass in these jeans, it makes you want to get into them.” he says to her, for example, one morning, just before going on air.
Things got out of hand in November when one day, Hapsatou Sy’s husband slumped into a chair and placed his feet on the operator’s desk. Furious, the young woman then grabbed one of her shoes and threw it across the room to show her displeasure. Vincent Cerutti then retorts by tackling him to the ground and biting his buttocks through his pants. A terrible gesture that he repeated a few months later, during a photo session, with several witnesses present. In 2016, he also yelled at this young woman, in front of everyone: “You’re a slut, you’re going to end up in a gutter, you’re going to end up like your mother…”, knowing that the employee’s mother died nine months previously.
Vincent Cerutti accused of sexual assault: the host comes out of silence
This Friday, October 20, 2023, Vincent Cerutti broke the silence on his X account, formerly Twitter and published a press release from his lawyers, Mes Céline Lasek and Alain Barsikian. “Mr Cerutti regrets that facts which are the subject of a secret and unfinished investigation are brought to the attention of the public. He recalls that he is presumed innocent and contests the legal characterization of the facts. The bite he is accused of, eight years ago, was part of a game, admittedly stupid, reciprocal, taking place in the schoolboy atmosphere of a morning radio team. This gesture never had the slightest sexual connotation. With hindsight, Mr. Cerutti obviously regrets having played these stupid games but strongly reaffirms that he never committed any sexual assault.” can we read.
— Vincent Cerutti (@ceruttiofficiel) October 20, 2023
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