In a long interview given to the newspaper Libération, the two actresses Agathe Pujol and Pauline Darcel confide in the sexual violence they allegedly suffered from Philippe Caubère. Since February 2024, the man has still been the target of an investigation for sexual assault, rape and corruption of minors.
Agathe Pujol and Pauline Darcel testify during a long interview given to our colleagues at Liberationrelayed by ELLE, about sexual violence and “the influence” that the 74-year-old man allegedly did to them when they were still in high school.
As a reminder, Pauline Darcel had filed a complaint for “sexual assault” on a minor, at the beginning of 2023, Agathe Pujol, her, in October 2023. Pauline Darcel is 17 years old, when she sends him a letter to inform him of her “admiration” towards him. As for Agathe Pujol, she met him at 16, too. “fan” of the latter.
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“Glasses of vodka”
It was during a third meeting, according to his account, that the man, then 60 years old, “kisses him, grabbing the back of his neck by surprise” and takes him to his room. Pauline Darcel, no longer remembers what happened, suffering from a “traumatic amnesia”. It’s a similar scenario that Agathe Pujol tells. After feeling “reassured” after their first meeting, on a second date, and after being served “glasses of vodka” by P. Caubère, she explains having been “penetrated with her fingers”she confesses.”It was the first time anyone kissed me or touched me.”
In 2012, the two women claimed that he was going to impose “sodomy” or “blowjobs” when they refused to let him make love to them. Pauline Darcel, who decided to stop seeing Philippe Caubère in the summer of the same year, the influence exercised by the artist over Agathe Pujol lasted almost a decade. The actress accuses him of having raped her repeatedly from the age of 17 to 29, between 2010 and 2022. She also declares that the latter “raped” by unknown men recruited on the Internet.
“I was a kid”
“Caubère’s defense will be to say that if I stayed for twelve years, I was necessarily consenting”she said. “I was a kid when I met him, I had no free will. He made me his thing. My weaknesses made me the perfect prey, and he knew it”she reveals.
