Since 2021, the rag has been burning between Marie Portolano and Pierre Ménès. At that time, while they were colleagues at Canal Plus, the journalist Marie Portolano publishes a documentary entitled I'm not a slut in which she describes the sexual assaults of which she was a victim during his career, and in particular from the Football consultant of Canal Football Club, Pierre Ménès.
The young woman explains that his friend raised her skirt before touching her buttocks. Facts which allegedly took place on the set of CFC. But the affair takes another turn since Marie Portolano recounts all this in a book entitled I'm the woman on setreleased last March. This December 3, Le Parisien reveals that Pierre Ménès has filed a complaint for defamation.
Pierre Ménès attacks Marie Portolano
Pierre Ménès also filed a complaint against the publisher of Marie Portolano. The latter claims that his former colleague speaks of him in her writings, without ever mentioning his name. The complaint dates from June 11 in Paris, for public defamation, reveals the daily. The complaint is deemed admissible by the judge, Pierre Ménès therefore filed a “filing of civil party“on October 21 with a view to opening an investigation.
He testifies to Le Parisien about his situation, since he left Canal Plus in the summer of 2021, a few weeks after all this came out publicly. “I lost everything with this story. It's been three years since my phone stopped ringing. I left my honor, my work, my health there. I don't see what more Marie Portolano wants. She needs to leave me alone now. I'm tired of all this.” he said.
The story of Marie Portolano
Two passages from Marie Portolano's book prompted Pierre Ménès to file a complaint. One of them is the following. The journalist had “a right of cooking“. “Besides the humiliation, he allowed himself to do whatever he wanted to the women around him. To touch who he wanted where he wanted, with the consent not of the people concerned obviously, but of those who could have easily stopped him, his hierarchical superiors for example, always witnesses to these actions” writes the former presenter of Best Pastry Chef and of Telematin.
Mayor Nicolas Rebbot, Pierre Ménès' lawyer, disputes: “My client was able to behave like a bully, a loudmouth, which is no longer possible these days, and that's fortunate. But I don't think he crossed the line to the point of being called a predator, and denounces “unacceptable and seriously defamatory comments“
