Paris prosecutors have requested a five-year prison sentence for filmmaker Christophe Ruggia over sexual assault charges involving actor Adele Haenel when she was a minor, Le Monde reports.

French director Christophe Ruggia has been arrested on charges of sexual harassment involving actress Adèle Haenel, who last year accused him of harassment back when they worked on his 2002 film ...

Ruggia had denied any wrongdoing. Haenel, now 35, was the first top actor in France to accuse the film industry of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse after the #MeToo movement broke out.

French filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, who was accused in 2019 by “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” actor Adele Haenel of having sexually abused her when she was a minor, was found guilty of sexual ...

A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was underage, in one of the first #MeToo cases to emerge from French ...

French actor Adele Haenel leaves the courtroom in Paris, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, after the court found filmmaker Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexual assault on her when she was between 12 and 15 in ...

Christophe Ruggia, French Film Director Accused of Sexually Abusing Adèle Haenel as a Minor, Heads to Trial The “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” actress became one of the faces of the #MeToo ...

A French filmmaker has been arrested after bombshell accusations that he sexually abused an underage actress in the early 2000s. Christophe Ruggia was taken into custody Tuesday after Adele Haenel … ...

French director Christophe Ruggia, who was accused of sexually harassing 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' star Adèle Haenel when she was between the ages of 12 and 15, denied all accusations while ...

UPDATE 11/4: French filmmaker Christophe Ruggia has been expelled from the French directors’ guild (Societé des Realisateurs de Films, SRF) after allegations surfaced yesterday (November 3 ...