(Paris) French director and actor Nicolas Bedos, 44, figure of All-Paris and son of humorist Guy Bedos, is under investigation for rape and sexual assault after three separate complaints from women.
The preliminary investigation was opened on July 5 and entrusted to the Paris judicial police, the prosecution said on Tuesday evening, confirming information from the Mediapart news site.
Two of the women who say they sent a report at the end of June to the Paris prosecutor’s office told Mediapart of the facts of a sexual nature of which they accuse Nicolas Bedos.
One of them, a 50-year-old actress and screenwriter who calls herself Chloé, accuses the director of having raped her at the Bedos home in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, in 1999.
Aged 26 at the time and a waitress, she had agreed to follow with friends and then with her parents Nicolas Bedos with whom a “form of friendly relationship” had been established.
A second woman, by the first name of Marion, described to online media a sexual assault in August 2017 at a vacation home. The facts denounced in the third complaint have not been specified.
The director was taken into police custody on June 21 after a woman complained of touching him in a Parisian club on the night of June 1 to 2.
He was summoned to the Paris Criminal Court in February 2024 for sexual assault in a state of obvious intoxication.
It was the revelation of this police custody and the announcement of his trial that decided the first two women, who know each other, to testify in court, specifies Mediapart.
Contacted, Mr. Bedos’ lawyer, Me Julia Minkowski, did not wish to react.
Nicolas Bedos has many hats in the world of cinema: playwright, columnist, screenwriter and even actor.
Son of comedian Guy Bedos, he made a name for himself by distinguishing himself in many fields, since his theater debut in 2004, at the age of just 25, with several plays, including Stage Output.
Artist and humorist claiming his politically incorrect, sometimes divisive positions, Nicolas Bedos is the author of four films, including three presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
La belle époque (2019), his most noticed feature film, won eleven César nominations, including those for best film and best director, and brought together 1.2 million spectators in theaters.
He has turned the cream of French cinema, from Jean Dujardin (OSS117: Red Alert in Black Africa) to Isabelle Adjani (Mascarade), via Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet and Fanny Ardant.