The #MeToo movement has allowed many women from the showbusiness world to free their voices. Thus, if many directors have just been accused of rape and sexual assault, there is also a famous singer who, posthumously, is also accused of sordid facts. This is Claude François. Died in 1978, the singer found himself over forty after his death, cited in numerous cases of sexual assault.
Some women accuse him of inappropriate gestures and sexual assault at the time when he was at the height of his glory and therefore untouchable. This is particularly the case of Sophie Darel who, present on the set of the show “Chez Jordan” a few weeks ago, confided to having been the target of the singer. “He threw me on the bed, he tried to tear off my blouse (…) He said to the secretary: ‘Get out of there!’ I said: ‘No, no stay, don’t go!’ It lasted a little while. He didn’t rape me, I want to say that.” she revealed.
Claude François Jr responds to rape accusations concerning his father
This Tuesday, March 26, 2024, his son, Claude François Jr, had the difficult task of responding to these accusations, he who was invited on the set of the same show on C8. “We can’t tell stories that are 50 years old without the person in question being there to have a contradictory debate. So the debate is closed. What’s the point of telling stories that are 50 years old when there isn’t Nothing happened? Sophie Darel, has nothing more exciting happened in your life, in your career?” he said scathingly.
On his momentum, Claude François Jr then returned to the comments of the host Faustine Bollaert who recently received on the set of her show It begins today, a woman claiming to have been locked in a dressing room with Claude François. “He closed the door, but two minutes later, she explains that she still went out and went back and that it lasted six years…” commented Claude François Jr, visibly very skeptical of this testimony.
“And when we look on her networks, there is a photo of Claude François where she says: ‘The man I loved the most, who respected me the most in my life'” he adds before declaring that according to him, Faustine Bollaert was wrong to speak of “rape” that day. ES