Singer Jeane Manson was victim Tuesday May 7 of a “heart attack” and hospitalized in Lyon, after an appeal hearing in the defamation case between her and the daughter of actor Richard Berry, her agent announced Wednesday May 8.
The firefighters confirmed that he was treated in the evening for “chest pain”. Jeane Manson, 73, was rescued “by the firefighters” within the confines of the Court of Appeal, then hospitalized “in critical condition”, according to the artist’s agent. “His condition is weak” and “an intervention is scheduled for today,” he said.
The former American companion of Richard Berry left the courtroom hurriedly in the eveningvisibly very agitated, when his lawyer was to speak for his pleading, noted an AFP journalist.
The Lyon Court of Appeal re-examined the case between Jeane Manson and Coline Berry-Rojtman. The judgment will be known on July 17.
In an article published by The world in February 2021, the latter spoke of sexual violence that she suffered as a minor in 1984 and 1985 at the home of her father who then lived with Jeane Manson, accused of having participated in these attacks.
A defamation case
The investigation targeting the actor accused of incest by his daughter was dismissed in August 2022 due to statute of limitations. Jeane Manson decided to sue her ex-daughter-in-law for defamation before the Aurillac court (Cantal), where she lives part of the year. The court sentenced Coline Berry-Rojtman to a fine of 2,000 euros for defamation and 20.00 euros in damages.
The Court of Appeal confirmed this conviction in December 2022. But a year later, the Court of Cassation annulled this judgment and sent the case back to the Lyon Court of Appeal.
During the hearing on Tuesday, Jeane Manson repeated: “I’m not a rapist, not a liar“. “I am a victim, I have not slept for three years”, she insisted. Her lawyer Jacques Verdier denounced a “revenge” by Coline Berry-Rojtman against her father, from which his client “appears like a collateral victim”. For her part, Coline Berry-Rojtman maintained her position: “For me it is the most blatant injustice, because I am being prosecuted for having denounced the facts of which I was a victim“.
Read more
