Daniela Elstner, managing director of French cinema and TV export agency Unifrance, has filed a police complaint against French actor and singer and actor Patrick Bruel, accusing him of attempted rape and sexual assault dating back to an alleged incident from 1997.
Elstner has spoken publicly about her experience in the past, including with The Hollywood Reporter, but declined to name Bruel, saying only that the alleged attacker was a high-profile figure in the film industry. She filed the complaint on March 12. On Wednesday, French investigative news website Mediapart named Elstner as one of eight women who have accused Bruel of sexual violence in incidents from between 1992 and 2019.
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Mediapart reported that a second woman lodged a complaint for rape against Bruel, for an incident alleged to have taken place at the Dinard British Film Festival in 2012, when Bruel was
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