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 ...

PARIS, France (AFP) — A young actress has lodged a complaint for rape against French film director Luc Besson, judicial sources said Saturday, the latest in a string of sexual abuse allegations in the ...

Five more women have come forward to accuse French film director Luc Besson of sexual harassment. The claims come following a rape complaint by Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy, and sexual ...

“La Femme Nikita” director Luc Besson has been accused of drugging and raping an actress in a Paris hotel, French authorities confirmed. He denied any wrongdoing, but an unidentified 27-year-old ...

“The Fifth Element” director Luc Besson has been accused of drugging and raping a young actress in a Paris hotel, according to multiple media reports. As first reported by Europe 1, the unidentified ...

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 ...

Luc Besson’s latest film, the Helen Mirren-starring thriller “Anna,” is failing at the French box office, dealing a further blow to his financially ailing EuropaCorp, which is in talks to be taken ...

Famed French director Luc Besson has been accused of rape by a French actress. Police said they were investigating the allegation, which Besson has categorically denied. Police in Paris started an ...

Ageing hit men, blue-collar action and warrior chicks – these are the film-maker's recurring motifs. And they're not the only things that set him apart from the rest of a French film industry that ...

French film producer Luc Besson, who has directed films such as Valerian, The Fifth Element and The Big Blue, is being investigated after an actress accused him of drugging and raping her on the final ...

Over the course of his dozen-plus films as a writer-director, Parisian auteur Luc Besson has become known for his stylish inversions of schlock genre fare and a certain, shall we call it, Vive la ...