A Parisian investigating judge dismissed the case for Isabelle Adjani, indicted for fraud since 2020 after the complaint of a former consultant who accused her of having falsified the repayment of his debts to him, AFP learned on Tuesday from sources close to the matter.
The dismissal also concerns the boss of the paparazzi agency Bestimage, the queen of the celebrity press Michèle “Mimi” Marchand, who was also prosecuted for complicity in fraud.
As revealed Liberation in 2022, Sébastien G. strategy consultant, managed Isia Films, the actress’ company, from 2011. He allegedly opened a line of credit to her account, paid some of Ms. Adjani’s taxes and issued her a credit card.
She would have engaged in several projects, including a documentary on ex-escort Zahia Dehar, but relations would have soured, the projects would have collapsed, and Sébastien G. would have been sidelined. A debt of around 150,000 euros would have remained.
“Proof of payments”
“To reassure her creditor, Isabelle Adjani would have sent him proof of payment […] and his good faith. But in reality, the money would never have reached its recipient,” Libération wrote.
Sébastien G. filed a complaint against the star in October 2015, leading to the indictment of the actress for fraud and “Mimi” Marchand for complicity, because she was suspected of having played a role in the submission of false “evidence payment”.
Like the Paris prosecutor’s office, the investigating judge estimated, according to elements of his order of which AFP was aware, that “the chronology of the facts does not make it possible to establish a link between the surrender and retention of the bank card “, in July 2011, and “the failure of the documentary project on Zahia Dehar”, imagined in February 2012, although “some of the pieces produced and the sequence of events that occurred are likely to characterize fraudulent maneuvers put in place in order to to deceive Sébastien G.”
“Both the handing over of the bank card and its continued availability to Isabelle Adjani were unrelated to the investment project but seem to have found their cause in the investment made by Sébastien G. to relaunch the career of the actress and the remuneration he received from it,” decides the investigating magistrate.
When asked, Ms. Adjani’s lawyers, Me Olivier Pardo and Laurence Dauxin-Nedelec, have not reacted for the moment. The advice of Sébastien G. and Mimi Marchand did not respond to AFP.
