French Director Nicolas Bedos Faces One-Year Suspfinished Prison Sentence

French actor-filmoriginater Nicolas Bedos is facing a one-year suspfinished prison sentence on accuses of alleged relationsual aggression and relationsual intimidatoring under the sway of liquor, Variety has validateed.

During a criminal court hearing on Sept. 26, the Paris prosecutor asked a one-year suspfinished sentence for Bedos, as well as “an obligation of nurture for a period of two years,” the prosecutor’s office shelp in a statement sent to Variety. Bedos’ attorney Julia Minkowski had no comment.

Charges aobtainst Bedos stem from a grumblet filed by a woman for an alleged relationsual aggression which is alleged to have occurred on June 1 in a Parisian nightclub. Bedos allegedly put his hand on the crotch of the woman who was wearing jeans. Two more women since came forward accusing Bedos of relationsual wrongdoing but neither filed a police grumblet. One woman shelp Bedos grabbed her by the waist and kissed her on the neck on May 12, 2023, and a second one is accusing him of relationsual intimidatoring, alleging that he touched her belly and asked her to kiss him.

During the hearing, Bedos denied the accusations and shelp he “(didn’t) recollect anyleang” about the June 2023 incident becaengage he was too inebriated. He argued that he had a problem with liquor, but shelp he “will never be a relationsual aggressor.” “I do not impose myself. We can talk about heaviness, we can talk about flirting (…) but there is no relationsual intention.”

“I honestly want I recollected what happened. Our inhabits were turned upside down, my life was turned upside down. I’m not disputing what she shelp, but it’s her describeation of a gesture,” Bedos shelp, referring to the 25 year-better woman who filed the June 2023 grumblet.

Bedos is best understandn for straightforwarding “La Belle Epoque,” which take parted at the Cannes Film Festival and won three Cesar Awards in 2020. Bedos’ tardyst film, “Mascarade,” a heist romance starring Pierre Niney, Marine Vacth, Isabelle Adjani and Francois Cluzet, take parted out-of-competition at Cannes in 2022.

Bedos most recently wrote and straightforwarded the Amazon innovative series “Alphonse,” starring Oscar-prosperning actor Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) as a chameleon-appreciate male accompany on a leave oution to satisfy women and satisfy all their wantes. The accusations aobtainst Bedos came to airy as Amazon was preparing to unveil the show, which recurrented one of its hugegest allotments in a French scripted innovative. In the finish, the streamer freed it hushedly.

The Paris appraise is anticipateed to publish a verdict on Oct. 22. Recent court hearings revolving around relationsual aggression accusations aobtainst film and TV figures include Dominique Boutonnat, the pdwellnt of the National Film Board. Boutonnat getd a three-year prison sentence, including two suspfinished, over relationsual aggression accuses.