France’s highest appeals court dismissed accusations of rape by Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy against French director and producer Luc Besson on Wednesday. According to local media reports, the ...

Authorities rejected a civil suit by actress Sand Van Roy, who accused the 'Fifth Element' director of raping her in 2018. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief A French judge has dismissed a rape ...

A French prosecutor on Monday dismissed a rape accusation lodged against director Luc Besson due to a lack of evidence.Besson was accused in May of last year of drugging and raping a young actress in ...

French filmmaker Luc Besson has been definitively cleared of all charges in the rape case involving the Belgian-Dutch female actor Sand Van Roy. The ruling was issued on Wednesday by the Cour de ...

France's top appeals court on Wednesday rejected a request to reopen a rape claim against film director Luc Besson, ending one of the most high-profile cases to emerge in the country's MeToo movement ...

Luc Besson made an emotional return to the film festival circuit on Thursday (31 August) after he was cleared of rape charges in June. Speaking to the press before the world premiere of his latest ...

PARIS — In French filmmaker Luc Besson’s thrillers and science-fiction movies, the women are serious, smart and strong, occasionally stronger than men. Sometimes, they even save the world. But recent ...

Luc Besson, the French filmmaker behind “Lucy” and “Valerian,” who is accused of rape by Dutch-Belgian actor Sand Van Roy, was made an assisted witness by a French judge on Monday. The judge assigned ...

Acclaimed director Luc Besson speaks at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International in California on July 21, 2016. (Gage Skidmore via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — France’s top appeals court on ...