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# Gerard Depardieu

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# Allegations
French star Gerard Depardieu faces probe over alleged sexual assault
Depardieu “absolutely denies any attack, any rape”, his lawyer Herve Temime said.
# Blacklisted
Ukraine has blacklisted French actor Gerard Depardieu
The 66-year-old actor has described Russia as a “great democracy”.
# Big screen
Finally! The FIFA movie 'United Passions' debuts at Cannes
Tim Roth plays Sepp Blatter, Sam Neill is Joao Havelange with Gerard Depardieu as Jules Rimet.
# DSK
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not happy with a film based on his sex scandal
His lawyer described it as “a piece of shit, dogshit”.
# Chechnya
Massive fire rages in Grozny skyscraper near Depardieu apartment
Reports say that an apartment owned by French actor Gerard Depardieu is in a neighbouring skyscraper to the one on fire.
# Russia
Gerard Depardieu takes up residence on Russia's Democracy Street
The French actor – and new Russian citizen – has moved to Mordovia, giving his address as No 1, Democracy Street.
# Mon Depar-dieu!
Gerard Depardieu officially gets Russian passport and meets Putin
Depardieu and Putin had a meal together and chatted about the actor’s new film.
# Au Revoir
Save the elephants or I'll move to Russia, Brigitte Bardot tells France.
The French actress says she will follow Gerard Depardieu’s lead and move to Russia unless two elephants under threat of being put down are granted a reprieve.
# Mon Depar-dieu!
Depardieu granted Russian citizenship after fleeing French tax hike
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to the French actor, who has criticised a 75pc tax rate.
# Sacre Bleu
French court rejects 75 per cent tax rate for millionaires
The move is a blow for French president Francois Hollande who had made the planned 75 per cent tax rate his centrepiece tax measure.
# Scarlet
13 fabulously cringetastic moments of the year
Politicians in particular excelled at making a show of themselves – even when they are not intending to.
# Animal Antics
Depardieu: I'm like an elephant, I have a lot of pee
The French actor spoke about his ‘urination incident’ during a CNN interview – saying it was a “beautiful” feeling to pee into a bottle on board a plane.
Video: Depardieu makes fun of Dublin flight urination incident
The French actor reprises his Obélix role to recreate the scene of controversial flight to Dublin last month.
# LUASCRUSH
New website catalogues transport totty
A new Irish website’s encouraging you to photograph your fellow commuters… but only if you fancy them.
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Thursday
All the things you may have missed…
# Work Can Wait
Watch: TV host makes bad jokes about Depardieu incident then loses it
Poor Anderson Cooper couldn’t hold it together when cracking puns about Gérard Depardieu’s alleged antics aboard a flight to Dublin.
# Oui-oui-gate
Gerard Depardieu 'said sorry' to stewardess after peeing on plane
Friends insist the actor tried to relieve himself into a bottle on the Dublin flight, but spilt some on the floor.
# The Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Wednesday
All the things you may have missed: Calls for Leaving Cert reform, Dublin’s Catholics could face a ‘church levy’, a bad day at work for someone in CityJet, and when Tom Waits met Cookie Monster…
# Pissoir
Gérard Depardieu relieves himself on flight headed for Dublin
The French actor was refused use of the toilet on board so took matters in to his own hands…