[quote]French actress Isabelle Adjani, who was Oscar nominated for “Camille Claudel” and “The Story of Adele H.,” has been under formal investigation for alleged fraud relating to hundreds of thousands of dollars of business expenses since October 2020, a judicial source confirmed to Variety on Monday.
The investigation stems from a police complaint filed by a former business associate, Sebastien G., in 2015, according to the French national newspaper Liberation which was first to report the story. Variety has contacted Adjani’s lawyer, Olivier Pardo, for comment.
According to the story published in Liberation, the case dates back to 2011 when Adjani hired Sebastien G. as a strategy consultant to help her run her production company, Isia Films. Sebastien G. allegedly obtained a credit line for Adjani as well as an American Express card on which she charged €364,000 ($385,400) over a period of 13 months, per the French report. Sebastien G. said he was fired days after he took the card back from Adjani. He said also he lent her €157,000 ($166,230) which she didn’t pay back. After he had some of Adjani’s assets seized in relation to her debts, she filed a lawsuit accusing him of abuse of corporate assets.
The case was eventually dropped. Sebastien G. then filed a police complaint in 2015 accusing Adjani to have produced fake payment receipts for the €157,000 she was supposed to pay him back. The complaint also involves Mimi Marchand, head of the news agency Bestimage, who allegedly helped Adjani produce these payments receipts. Once the formal investigation is completed, a judge will decide whether to drop the case or put Adjani on trial.
Adjani’s latest film, “Petra Van Kant,” directed by Francois Ozon, opens this week in France. Inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cult film “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” the movie played on opening night at the Berlin Film Festival. She also stars in Nicolas Bedos’s heist comedy “Mascarade” which world premiered at this year’s Cannes.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 29, 2023 5:05 PM |
It's sad what she's done to her face given what a stone cold beauty she once was.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 27, 2022 8:53 PM |
You're telling me R1
She went on a shopping spree? Is that it? Possibly forging receipts? We live in an ultra digitized era so I don't get it.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 27, 2022 8:57 PM |
Probably spent it all on plastic surgery.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 27, 2022 9:01 PM |
Like her as an actress and thought she was pretty but not the great beauty some make her out to be,
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 27, 2022 9:03 PM |
Louise Fletcher and Jessica "Randy" Tandy beat her on each of her Oscar noms.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 27, 2022 9:09 PM |
I thought she was absolutely stunning in Subway {1985}
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 27, 2022 9:09 PM |
I hope Sebastien G gets all the money that is owed to him.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 27, 2022 9:11 PM |
Why would he lend his boss money? Dat don't make no cents.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 27, 2022 9:13 PM |
Was a truly beautiful woman before her bad surgery, as well as an overpraised and often terrible actress.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 27, 2022 9:14 PM |
Always thought she was a crappy actress. Typical French obsession with claiming some modestly talented person is a Genius. Adjani's the actress equivalent of Johnny Hallyday. Huppert was much the better Isabelle.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 27, 2022 9:20 PM |
R10 LOL I haven't the heard the name Johnny Hallyday since I was a teen and had my Francophile phase. Good lord was he a shitty musician. French people also pretend like Alain Delon was a great actor (all his contemporaries were far better than him, especially Belmondo and Trintignant) because he was handsome.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 27, 2022 9:25 PM |
I love 1960s pop but I can never get into the French stuff. I'd rather listen to Petula Clark sing in French than many of their idols.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 27, 2022 9:27 PM |
Trintignant died last week. He never really recovered from his daughter's murder and disappeared pretty much after that happened. He was brilliant in my all-time favorite movie Z.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 27, 2022 9:31 PM |
Isabelle Adjani is a stunning beauty, compared to hmmm a-list American actresses like Sue Cunt Sarandon, Sandra Bullock, and Julia Roberts. Those who say Adjani is plain must be anti-social and suffering from optical nerves damage.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 27, 2022 9:33 PM |
Rose Byrne plays her in the movie
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 27, 2022 9:35 PM |
Why does she always look like she's about to cry? I don't care for Adjanis acting but the poorly reviewed Diabolique remake starring her, Sharon Stone, and Kathy Bates is a guilty pleasure of mine.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 27, 2022 9:36 PM |
I lived in France all the years when she was being hailed as the World's Greatest Actress. Never saw a performance of hers that wasn't OTT.
My favorite French actor or actress is Daniel Auteuil - ugly as shit but a great actor.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 27, 2022 9:40 PM |
R17 I find him to be very Jolie laide. Not conventionally attractive but quite charming and interesting to look at.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 27, 2022 9:42 PM |
Adjani is brilliant in at least 5 films: The Story of Adele H, Possession, One Deadly Summer, Camille Claudel and Queen Margot.
I love Isabelle Huppert as well but I don’t think she ever reached the highs of Adjani at her best.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 27, 2022 10:01 PM |
R16 Sharon is so deliciously campy in that. There's a great part where she's smoking a cigarette and a guy tells her something along the lines of "secondhand smoke kills" and she blows smoke directly into his face and says "not reliably." I miss that crazy bitch on the big screen so much.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 27, 2022 10:02 PM |
Adjani was never shy about showing off her pussy and boobs.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 27, 2022 10:03 PM |
Possession has to be one of the most overrated films among cinephile types ever. Boring, horribly acted (the fact we're supposed to see Adjani's community theater Gena Rowlands impression as emotionally moving is...something), and pretentious. The Story of Adele H is a middling film, probably her best acting work. Camille Claudel was a snooze, and La Reine Margot is owned by the undersung Virna Lisi. Haven't seen One Deadly Summer.
Huppert has an admittedly narrow range (cannot play warm to save her life) but was EXCELLENT in Story of Women, Malina, The Piano Teacher, La Ceremonie, and Elle.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 27, 2022 10:06 PM |
I love the remake of Diabolique. LOVE IT.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 27, 2022 10:29 PM |
You probably also love Point of No Return.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 27, 2022 10:42 PM |
R22 Nope. Also, go back to the other thread where you already spouted this bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 27, 2022 10:49 PM |
R25 I’m not the Isabelle Adjani is awful troll, but I do support his or her message.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 27, 2022 10:52 PM |
There’s nothing community theater about Isabelle Adjani. I understand that a movie like Possession is not for everyone but a Gena Rowlands comparison to what Isabelle does in Possession is just a bad comparison. The Gena film in question (which I assume means AWUTI) is “reality” whereas Possession is deliberate unreality. If you have seen Zulawski’s other movies, most of if not all of the performances are heightened or stylized. I would even say Possession is the most accessible of Zulawski’s filmography. Anyway, Adjani at her best was amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 28, 2022 1:32 AM |
[Quote]My favorite French actor or actress is Daniel Auteuil - ugly as shit but a great actor.
I like his work as well, but standing next to him in Galleries Lafayette I felt like Godzilla (6'3" ) standing next to a plucked chicken. Yeah, fug.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 28, 2022 4:05 AM |
The Gena Rowlands comparison is interesting because I saw Adjani in a stage adaptation of 'Opening Night' a few years back in which she played Rowlands' role and was superb.
I always thought she was gorgeous and should have won the Oscar for Adele H. She speaks English well and with a very light accent, so I imagine she could have been bigger in the US, but she does not strike me as a careerist.
Starting in the late 80s she began going years between film projects, and stopped having US representation after her son with DDL was born. She's been more active as of late, and I recently loved her performance as the con artist mother in 'The World is Yours.'
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 28, 2022 3:12 PM |
isabelle huppert fans are pretentious and know nothing about acting
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 29, 2022 4:04 AM |
Love this crazy bitch
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 12, 2022 11:01 AM |
She used to be exquisite.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 12, 2022 11:17 AM |
She looks like she eats Alpo.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 12, 2022 11:23 AM |
She looks like a real doll who could come to life and go on a murder spree at any moment.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 12, 2022 11:29 AM |
She coasted so much on her beauty, which was the only exceptional thing about her. She isn't fit to smell the farts of Gena Rowlands.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 12, 2022 3:21 PM |
I'd love to play her daughter in something.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 12, 2022 3:37 PM |
Some of the posters here denigrating her talent probably haven’t seen anything she’s been in. Or they just think French actors or French films just aren’t that great for whatever reason
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 12, 2022 3:38 PM |
I LOVE French film. Some of my favorite actresses and actors are French: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Vincent Cassel, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Eva Green...etc.
I do not think Adjani is good as any of them (yes, Deneuve has much more screen presence), but got elevated because of her beauty and relative youth when she became famous in the 70s. The French blowing smoke up the asses of mediocre talents is a frequent thing.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 12, 2022 4:25 PM |
She looks amazing for 67. She looks a decade younger.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 12, 2022 4:35 PM |
I find all French actresses COLD and unexpressive. Deneuve, Moreau, Adjani, Huppert, not to mention most of the lesser known ones like Valerie Kaprisky and Virginie Ledoyen. I don't get the obsession with them. Danielle Darrieux was perhaps one exception, also Leslie Caron and it's not surprising that these two had Hollywood careers that went beyond one or two movies.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 12, 2022 4:38 PM |
To each his own, I’m just not sure how to describe Adjani as unexpressive in things like Adele H, Possession, or Camille Claudel, unless we’re watching completely different movies.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 12, 2022 5:31 PM |
There was a funny segment from the 2020 Cèsars with comedian Florence Foresti visiting Isabelle Adjani at her home. It kind of pokes fun at Adjani’s reclusiveness and whimsical nature, showing her apartment which includes her walking into a hidden room behind her refrigerator, a kind of Gothic crypt, where she sits in a throne and converses with scary dolls. So, at least she has a sense of humor about herself.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 12, 2022 5:47 PM |
I think Americans have the French beat when it comes to elevating mediocrity
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 12, 2022 5:47 PM |
She's very good at playing vulnerable and/or overwrought, but she can be unimpressive when she steps out of those comfort zones.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 15, 2022 3:21 PM |
Diabolique was a gem of a movie. Glad to see other people agree.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 15, 2022 3:30 PM |
[quote]I love the remake of Diabolique.
You mean the re-remake, r23.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 15, 2022 3:31 PM |
Watching Possession. With all that chewing, I’m surprised there was any scenery left. Including Sam Neill.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 29, 2023 5:05 PM |