Gerard Louvin during the recording of Les Grands du rire in 2017 in Paris -

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An investigation for "blackmail" was opened on February 17 against the nephew of producer Gérard Louvin, said the Paris prosecutor's office.

The producer and her husband, Daniel Moyne, have been the object of an investigation since January 21 for "rape of minors" and "complicity in rape of minors" after the filing of a complaint by Gérard Louvin's nephew, Olivier A. Quickly, Gérard Louvin and Daniel Moyne denounced the "blackmail" of which they considered themselves victims.

In their complaint dating from the beginning of February, they accuse Olivier A. of having "tried to obtain more than 700,000 euros" from them, because he "feared to have been excluded from the succession" of his uncle.

Destroy the couple's reputation

According to their version of the facts, Olivier A. "spread in the media in order to destroy the reputation of the couple then filed a complaint for facts not only contested but obviously prescribed".

"They will soon be heard by the investigators concerning this complaint", welcomed Me Céline Bekerman, lawyer for Daniel Moyne.

The plaintiff's lawyer, Me Pierre Debuisson, for his part indicated that he had "no new comment to make for the moment, having already indicated that these accusations were ridiculous and only constituted a backfire" .

At least two other complaints from two other people denouncing respectively rape of a 15-year-old minor and sexual assault, were added to the investigation into the charges of incest, entrusted to the Brigade for the protection of minors.

Four more complaints for "rape" and "sexual assault"

Me Debuisson had indicated in early February that four other complaints had been filed for "rape" and "sexual assault" against the couple, and that other complaints would come.

Olivier A., ​​48, had filed a complaint in early January for "complicity in rape by ascendant on a minor of 15" against his uncle Gérard Louvin, accusing him of having "favored" incestuous rapes committed on him by her husband, Daniel Moyne.

The information was revealed by the daily

Le Monde

, some time after the publication by the lawyer Camille Kouchner of a book in which she accuses her stepfather, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, of having raped his twin brother.

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