In February 2021, Coline Berry came into the media spotlight following an article in the newspaper The world revealing that she had discreetly filed a complaint a month earlier against her father, actor Richard Berry, for rape and sexual assault on a minor. Facts that date back to the 1980s. The 71-year-old actor categorically denies the facts. In the process, Coline Berry also accused the singer Jeane Manson, ex-wife of the actor, of having participated in these attacks. She sued for defamation and the trial began.
It was therefore this Friday, April 1 that the judges of the Aurillac court – Jeane Manson lives there for a large part of the year and therefore filed a complaint here – began to study the file. The beginning of the hearing gave rise to long debates between lawyers, those of the defense pleading the impossibility of judging defamation, while the facts denounced by Coline Berry are the subject of an investigation underlines AFP . But the court did not follow them and launched the interrogation of the latter. On Twitter, journalist Vincent Vantighem, a great reporter for BFMTV, has also documented all day what he said at the helm.
It had become unbearable to carry this secret
Coline Berry, who divided the clan into two camps following her complaint, therefore again described to the judges the sexual games of which she claims to have been the victim. According to her, Richard Berry had, for example, imposed on her the game of “the orchestra” in which she had to play with her father’s sex, compared to a “flute” or a “trumpet“, sometimes in the presence of Jeane Manson.”It was the playing of the orchestra. That was how it was presented (…) And Jeane Manson was singing“, she assured.
“I am upset. We are trying to do justice to a person who assaulted me, who witnessed the assault. I think I am a constructed person (…) It had become unbearable to carry this secret. I do it for my children. That they don’t carry this secret. To finally tell the truth. To stop being dirty“, she swears at the bar, refuting having filed a complaint after the publication of Camille Kouchner’s book on the incest suffered by her brother.
Everyone calls her the mytho
During this hearing, Jeane Manson did not go there four ways: for her, Coline Berry tells anything! “She never saw me naked, she never touched my breasts. (…) She lies and when we lie, we are always discovered (…) Since she was ten, everyone calls her the mytho“, she says. She claims to have been shocked by the article of the World reading it and even called Coline, furious. “But it’s lies Coline! You can’t say that about your father !“, she would have confided to him on the phone. “Coline Berry assures that Jeane Manson and her daughter, Shirel [qui a pris position pour Richard Berry, NDLR], admitted the facts to her, at the beginning. It was even she who gave the numbers to the journalists who worked on the subject, at the time“, finally specifies Vincent Vantighem.
Accused by her former daughter-in-law of having belonged to the sect accused in particular of pedophilia, The Children of God, the singer also denied this assertion, acknowledging having collaborated artistically with them but without belonging to the movement. Finally, we also learn during his audition that Jeane Manson claims the sum of 250,000 euros in damages !