Christophe Ruggia was sentenced to four years and fined for sexually assaulting the actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor. By Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris A ...

The 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' actress accused Ruggia of sexually assaulting and molesting her over the course of three years, starting when she was 12. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

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 emerge from French ...

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 ...

French director Christophe Ruggia has been given a two-year custodial sentence under house arrest with an electronic bracelet with another two years suspended following a landmark trial in which ...

In one of the most prominent #MeToo cases in the French film industry, director Christophe Ruggia has been found guilty of the sexual assault of Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Adèle Haenel.

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 ...

French Director Christophe Ruggia has been sentenced to two years of house arrest for sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor. Ruggia will serve under house arrest with an ...

Haenel accused Ruggia of abusing her from the age of 12 to 15, both during and after filming of The Devils. She often went to Ruggia’s house, where he would touch her between the legs and caress ...

Adele Haenel, 35, 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".