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Depardieu rape investigation to be reopened, says report

PARIS: A

rape investigation

against

French actor Gerard Depardieu

will be reopened after his accuser refiled her

complaint

when prosecutors dropped a previous inquiry, sources close to the case said on Wednesday. The accuser, an actress in her 20s who accuses Depardieu of raping her at his home in August 2018, refiled a complaint after prosecutors dropped the case in June 2019, citing a lack of evidence.

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After she reported her allegations against the 71-year-old actor, who denies any wrongdoing, prosecutors in

Aix-en-Provence

opened a preliminary probe which they then passed on to their Paris colleagues. The Paris probe was dropped after nine months after investigators failed to find enough proof.

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