For a few years now, and a politico-media psychodrama, Gérard Depardieu has been a citizen of the world. French, first, but also Russian thanks to his friendship with the decried President Vladimir Putin which allowed him to obtain the nationality of the country; the latter is currently seized with a warlike madness against Ukraine. But, with The Obsthe 73-year-old actor makes new revelations about his situation.
Asked at his home in Paris, where he owns a private mansion in the Montparnasse district, Gérard Depardieu therefore mentioned his return to the big screen and the fact that he only comes to France to shoot. “Although I still have French citizenship and a French passport, I am now a Russian and Dubai citizen. But my life mostly takes place in the Mediterranean“, he says, thus revealing a new and unsuspected additional nationality. If many reality TV candidates go to live there, one wonders what the actor of Maigret (released in theaters on February 23) can do…
Gérard Depardieu, who deleted a photo of himself with Poutine from his recently launched Instagram account, explained himself in more detail. “I have two big game fishing boats, one in Dubai, the other, which was used for tuna fishing and in which I had an apartment fitted out, in Istanbul. I furrow, I drift, it suits me very well… France, I will always be there to shoot, but less and less to live there. I am also going to put my Parisian hotel and my vines up for sale“, he confided. It was in his Parisian house that he was notably accused of having raped a young actress who lodged a complaint, facts which he denies and for which he remains presumed innocent.
Gérard Depardieu, who however also returns to France to see his daughter Julie and her grandchildren, does not hide the fact that he continues to manage to also avoid tax pressure in France. While he has a show around Barbara’s repertoire, he intends very quickly to stop playing it here… “I am going to perform the show in April at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, but after that I will only present it abroad. In France, you sing twenty songs, and the taxman takes fourteen of them. You get paid on six!“, he says.