Overview
- The Versailles Court of Appeal handed a 30-month sentence Tuesday, with 12 months suspended.
- The 42-year-old admitted in the appeal hearing that she sent texts demanding €30,000 for her silence while Sébastien Cauet was under scrutiny for sexual violence.
- Judges also ordered psychological treatment for the defendant and barred any contact with Cauet or his wife.
- The new term is slightly lower than January’s first-instance sentence of three years with 18 months suspended.
- A separate judicial investigation into alleged rapes and a sexual assault by Cauet from 1997–2014 remains open, and in France a formal investigation signals serious suspicion, not guilt.