The actress filed a complaint against the filmmaker at the same time as she filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot.
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Judith Godrèche also filed a complaint on Tuesday February 6 against the filmmaker Jacques Doillon for rape of a 15-year-old minor by a person in authority when she filed a complaint against the director Benoît Jacquot, franceinfo learned from the actress’s lawyer, Thursday 8 FEBRUARY.
On France Inter Thursday February 7, Judith Godrèche accuses Jacques Doillon of having made her “the same thing” as Benoît Jacquot. According to her, the facts took place “in Jane’s house [Birkin, compagne à l’époque du cinéaste]in Jacques’ office Doillon.” “No one saw it and I didn’t tell anyone about it,” she specifies. When asked if Jacques Doillon abused her, the actress acquiesces.
She also recounts events that took place on the set of Jacques Doillon’s film “The Fifteen-Year-Old Girl”, released in 1989. Judith Godrèche “15 years” at the time and she plays the main character, alongside Melvil Poupaud and Jacques Doillon himself. “All of a sudden he decides there’s a love scene, a sex scene between him and me.”, remembers Judith Godrèche. She explains that for this scene “45 takes” have been done. “I take off my sweater, I’m shirtless, he gropes me, makes out with me”she describes. “On the set, it was amazing”she denounces.
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced, Wednesday February 7, the opening of a preliminary investigation following the complaint against Benoît Jacquot. The investigations were entrusted to the Minor Protection Brigade (BPM). The investigation concerns “on the offenses of rape of a minor under the age of 15 by a person having authorized it, rape, violence by a partner, and sexual assault on a minor over the age of 15 by a person having authority, all of the facts denounced having taken place between 1986 and 1992 “France Inter learned from the Paris prosecutor’s office.