The "Léon, the Professional" director was accused of rape in 2018 by actress Sand Van Roy, who has appealed multiple times. Luc Besson has been cleared of all rape charges from a 2018 case ...

The Paris prosecutor's office says an investigation failed to turn up evidence to support a woman's rape allegation against filmmaker Luc Besson and the case has been dropped.

The judge responsible for overseeing a rape complaint brought against filmmaker Luc Besson today dismissed the case following a lengthy investigation. This follows a request made by the Paris ...

Acclaimed director Luc Besson speaks at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International in California on July 21, 2016. (Gage Skidmore via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — France's top appeals court on ...

The rape claim against Luc Besson, the French director of “The Fifth Element” and “Lucy,” has been dismissed by a Paris judge following a lengthy judicial investigation. A source close to ...

Actress Sand Van Roy claimed she had been raped multiple times by Besson, director of Valerian, Leon and The Fifth Element. Besson had called Van Roy’s claims “fantasist accusations ...

French filmmaker Luc Besson has been definitively cleared of all charges in the rape case involving the Belgian-Dutch female actor Sand Van Roy. The ruling was issued on Wednesday (June 21) by the ...

The case was one of the highest-profile controversies of the #MeToo era in France, AFP news agency notes. Ms Van Roy had accused Mr Besson of raping her just hours after they met at a hotel in ...

Luc Besson regrets these four lost years," Thierry Marembert added. Ms Van Roy's lawyer, Antoine Gitton, said the case had become a "a sordid news item" and announced his intention to appeal ...