The French psychoanalyst and media personality Gérard Miller is being investigated by French prosecutors over allegations of rape and sexual assault, including of minors, as more women made claims in a documentary that he had sought to meet teenagers in the studio audiences of TV shows and invite them to his home, reports The Guardian.
Prosecutors launched an investigation after receiving six complaints against the 75-year-old of rape or assault between 1995 and 2005.
The accusations are the latest of a string made against powerful men in French film and television by women who were minors or in their late teens at the time of the alleged offence. The French #MeToo movement has gained momentum in recent months after the actor Judith Godrèche accused two directors, Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, of sexual assault while she was a teenager and made a plea to the industry to examine its attitudes. Both men have denied the allegations.
In a documentary, Envoyé Special, broadcast on France 2 television on Thursday night, one women alleged Miller had raped her and another made an assault allegation. Several women had previously spoken out to Elle magazine, which broke the story, and to the investigative website Mediapart.
Miller denies all the allegations