A French film director has been found guilty of sexually assaulting actor Adèle Haenel when she was underage. Christophe Ruggia, 60, was given a four-year sentence, two of which were suspended.

Haenel had accused Ruggia of abusing her from the age of 12 to 15, during and after the filming of “The Devils,” which tells the story of two abandoned siblings searching for their home. She ...

French filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, who was accused in 2019 by "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" actor Adele Haenel of having sexually abused her when she was a minor, was found guilty of sexual ...

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 ...

On February 3, 2025, the Paris court sentenced Christophe Ruggia for the molestation of Adèle Haenel to four years—two under house arrest and the remainder of the sentence suspended. "You ...

The sentence comes five years after Haenel went public in 2019 with sexual assault accusations against Ruggia in an interview with investigative website Mediapart. Haenel accused Ruggia of ...

Adele Haenel, 35, has accused filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, 60, of assaulting her in the early 2000s when she was between 12 and 14 and he was in his late 30s, accusations he has called "pure lies".