Haenel, 35, a prize-winning actress in movies such as “Portrait of a Lady On Fire,” had accused Ruggia of repeatedly touching her inappropriately after they met while working on the movie ...

A film director has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old actor while working on a movie, in one of the first #MeToo-related verdicts in French cinema. Christophe Ruggia was accused ...

Haenel, a key figure in France’s #MeToo ... Ruggia after his trial for allegedly sexually assaulting French actress Adele Haene (Image credits: AP) ...

A French court on Monday found film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually assaulting actress Adéle Haenel when she was a child in what is seen as a landmark #MeToo trial in for the French ...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial.

(Reuters) — A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was underage, in one of the first #MeToo cases to ...

Christophe Ruggia was accused by actor Adele Haenel of repeatedly touching her inappropriately while working on the movie The Devils in 2001, when he was 36. He was sentenced to four years by the ...

A French court on Monday found film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually assaulting actress Adèle Haenel when she was a child in what is seen as a #MeToo landmark trial in France. A Paris ...