Following the complaints filed earlier this year by actress Judith Godrèche for rape of a 15-year-old minor against Jacques Doillon and Benoît Jacquot, the two filmmakers are being questioned by investigators this Monday morning for police custody. The actress had filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot, with whom she had a relationship when she was only 14 and he was 25 years older.
In recent months, Judith Godrèche had spoken of an “awareness” of this “control relationship”, the nature of which she gradually recounted through various media. “It’s a story of violence, a story of control”, she had described, after having filed a complaint against him for rape of a minor.
Sexual violence in adolescence
The actress also denounced sexual violence allegedly committed by Jacques Doillon when she was a teenager. The actress had starred in his film “The 15-Year-Old Girl”, released in 1989. According to her account, the director changed the casting and the script to shoot a sex scene with the actress while she was still a teenager.
She also accuses him of abusing her in private. “What happened in Jane’s house (Birkin, his companion at the time), in Doillon’s office, no one saw him,” she explained, adding that she had never yet recounted these alleged facts.
