Paul Schrader accused of sexual aggression of the Cannes Film Festival

According to a process filed this week in New York, Paul SchraderA praised screenwriter and director WHO has risen to fame through his work with Martin Scorseseacknowledged that he sexually assaulted his personal assistant at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, comparing him to him convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein. However, after the 78-year-old director agreed with a confidential settlement to resolve the situation, he reneged on, claims the trial, leaving him an option than to take him to court.

The civil process was submitted on Thursday and the alleged violation of the contract between Paul Schrader and his former assistant, a 26 -year -old woman identified in the judicial documents as Jane Doe. According to the legal submission (which you can Read entirely online), Doe started the job with Taxi driver scribe in May 2021; Shortly, the claim of the costume, the director “used his power position on Mrs. Doe (who is 52 years younger than him) to force her to work in a hostile, intimidating and humiliating sexual environment, if not, per hour.

Things arrived at a tilting point in May 2024, when Doe and Schrader were at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his latest movie, Oh, Canada. According to the trial, Schrader “asked Mrs. Doe to go to her hotel room, grabbed her, grabbed her arms, and threw it on her face to kiss her against her will, then retained it in the effort to keep it in the room before the hotel.

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Days after that incident, the trial claims that Doe returned to Schrader’s room “after receiving numerous calls and texts, in which the defendant Schrader claimed that he” dies “and could not pack his own bags,” but says that when he arrived, he exposed to her.

The process also details it, e -mail sent by Schrader to Doe, in which you make statements like “I feel that you regain yourself every time I have the impulse to touch” and “I start thinking that I could touch you”, they both sent while DOE was in Schrader’s hiring.

In September, the costume claims that it was fired, with Schrader who would have written by e -mail “so I fucked. Hard time … If I became a Harvey Weinstein in your mind, then, of course, you only have to put me in the rear -view mirror.”

After dismissal, Doe kept a legal lawyer, who worked with Schrader’s legal team to ensure a confidential financial settlement on the debts. Although it is assumed that an agreement was reached, after a period of “soul search”, Schrader decided not to sign, saying that “he cannot live with himself” if he had respected. “This is a problem of applying the open and closed solution,” Lawyer Doe Gregory Chiallo He writes in the file, claiming that even unsigned, the agreement was mandatory. (Following publishing, doe legal representatives did not answer Vanity FairRequest for comments.)

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Schrader’s lawyer Philip Kessler denied Doe’s statements TO Hollywood ReporterTo say that submission is a “desperate, opportunistic and frivolous process to apply a solution that has never been signed by Schrader.” (Vanity Fair addressed to Kessler for comments, but did not receive a publication response.)

“The agreement he is trying to apply against Mr. Schrader, in simple English, has forced both sides to sign him before becoming legal,” says Kessler says A?. “Mr. Schrader refused to sign him. He’s sincerely as simple as this.”

According to Kessler, the accusations in the trial are “in many ways inaccurate, in other significant and exaggerated misleading.