Overview
- News outlets reported on July 28 that two complaints were filed at Paris’s first district of the judicial police on July 16 and July 23 alleging a 1994 rape in Toulouse and a 2005 sexual assault in Rhodes.
- The 1994 complainant says she was 19 and working at the Grand Hôtel de l’Opéra in Toulouse when she was taken to Bruel’s room, blacked out, later woke to him with his pants undone and was forced to perform oral sex, and she says the episode led to a suicide attempt months later.
- The second complainant, an American‑Scottish actress, alleges that during the 2005 filming of Ô Jérusalem in Rhodes Bruel kissed her by force in an elevator repeatedly invited her to his room and later grabbed her hand insistently in a car.
- Bruel and his lawyers categorically deny the new allegations and he already faces multiple judicial procedures, including being placed under formal investigation in four cases and under the status of témoin assisté in four others.
- Complainants and their lawyers acknowledge the events may be time‑barred but say the statements were filed to support ongoing probes and to illustrate a pattern of alleged conduct that judges are now asked to consider.