Gérard Depardieu is making headlines again. While the actor is the target of several complaints of sexual assault by numerous women, since Tuesday, May 21, he has also been accused of having physically attacked the photographer Rino Barillari, in Italy. Sitting in a restaurant in Rome, it was first his companion, the so-called Magda Vavrusova, who noticed the paparazzi and tried to block him before the star d‘Asterix and Obelix does not hit him repeatedly. Julie Depardieu’s father has since delivered his version of the facts to the authorities and filed a complaint against the photographer. But who is more precisely the woman who makes the heart of the sacred monster of French cinema beat and who everyone has been talking about in the media since the altercation?
Magda Vavrusova is a 75-year-old Slovak actress. Since the 1990s, she has been best known for her political career. Indeed, the latter was ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Austria from 1990 to 1993, then ambassador of Slovakia to Poland from 2000 to 2005. Gérard Depardieu’s partner was even a candidate in the 1999 presidential election in Slovakia, but did not did not make it past the second round. In her political rise, she notably held the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia before being elected to the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union, during the 2006 legislative elections. .
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Gérard Depardieu: the actor soon to return to the cinema?
That same day, a few hours before learning of the altercation between Gérard Depardieu and Rino Barrilari, a press release announced the actor’s return to the cinema. Information denied shortly after by his agent with BFM TV. The initial press release, relayed by The Sunaffirmed that the 75-year-old actor would star in the film entitled Travel Agents (Travel agents, in French). According to the statement, Gérard Depardieu even expressed his enthusiasm for this project while the producer of the feature film had already shared the announcement on his Instagram account. A confusion which has caused a lot of ink to flow.
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