After filing a complaint against Benoît Jacquot, Judith Godrèche accused the director Jacques Doillon of having abused her when she was 15 years old.
These are decades of silence to which Judith Godreche decides to end it today. After filing a complaint against director Benoît Jacquot for “rape with violence against minors under 15”, the 51-year-old actress today revealed that she had suffered other sexual abuse from personalities in the cinema industry . At the microphone of France Inter this Thursday, February 8, the actress claims to have suffered sexual abuse from the filmmaker Jacques Doillon.
Judith Godrèche mentions two attacks on the part of Jane Birkin’s ex-husband and father of Lou Doillon (in particular): a first which allegedly took place “in Jane Birkin’s house”. She won’t give the details, but assures that “no one saw it and I didn’t tell anyone about it.” The actress will not say more about this first accusation.
The second would have taken place on the set of the film The 15 year old girl, directed by the same Jacques Doillon. She plays the main role (and was therefore 15 years old at the time) opposite the filmmaker, who is also an actor in the film. “All of a sudden, he decides that there is a love scene, a sex scene between him and me,” she explains on France Inter, over 45 takes. “I take off my sweater, I’m shirtless, he gropes me, makes out with me.” She assures that the facts would have taken place in front of Jane Birkin, then still in a relationship with the director, for whom the “situation was extremely painful”.
An investigation targets Benoît Jacquot
This testimony comes the day after the opening of an investigation targeting Benoît Jacquot for “violent rape of a minor under 15 years old”. On February 6, 2024, Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against the filmmaker, denouncing a relationship of “perversion” and “control”. This began in 1986, when she was 14 years old, and he was 39 years old. The investigation concerns more specifically “the offenses of rape of a minor under 15 years of age by a person in authority, rape, violence by a partner, and sexual assault on a minor over 15 years of age by a person in authority, all of the facts denounced having took place between 1986 and 1992”, as specified by the Paris prosecutor’s office on February 7.
The actress also denounces at the microphone of France Inter brutal and violent sexual relations, with “sexual abuse” and “sexual sadism”, in particular “belt beatings”. For his part, Benoît Jacquot, now 77 years old, denies the accusations against him. On the contrary, he evokes a “loving” and long relationship, “devoid, according to him, of brutality and predation” to Le Monde.