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This Wednesday, January 31, Elle magazine reveals testimonies implicating the famous 75-year-old psychoanalyst and columnist in acts of sexual assault. Gérard Miller disputes these accusations. 

Three women accuse psychoanalyst and director Gérard Miller of sexual assault and rape, notably during hypnosis sessions, some of which are very old, in an investigation published Wednesday on the

Elle

magazine website , which the person concerned contests. Gérard Miller, 75, assures in

Elle

“that he has never sexually abused anyone, under any circumstances”. 

He had anticipated this publication, indicating on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that he had been informed by the two authors of the publication of an article "seriously questioning" him. 

Facts of sexual assault

The magazine reports the story of journalist and director Muriel Cousin, who claims to have been touched during a hypnosis session in 1990, when she was 23 years old. It had not then “occurred to him to file a complaint” because “at the time, that was not done”.

Another woman denounces a rape during such a session in 2004, when she was 19 years old, after having attended a program in which the famous psychoanalyst and columnist, now active on the left with La France insoumise, participated. . According to her, the events took place at the home of Gérard Miller, after a game based on hypnosis. “I can no longer move. I am a doll that can be undressed and to which you can do whatever you want,” she testifies. 

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Furthermore, a young woman aged 19 at the time in 1993, who worked as a babysitter for the psychoanalyst, also reported a sexual assault while he was driving her home by car. 

According to Elle

magazine

, an actress in the film "Terminale" (1998) on which Gérard Miller was a screenwriter "would have suffered a sexual assault, under the cover of a hypnosis session at the psychoanalyst's home, on the couch in his office" .

An interview with filmmaker Benoît Jacquot conducted in 2011 by Gérard Miller for the purposes of a documentary recently came to the surface. The filmmaker spoke of his relationships with young actresses including Judith Godrèche, then a minor, in front of a conciliatory Gérard Miller.

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Gérard Miller had to justify himself: "Today, I could no longer imagine the same film, because we are no longer in this collective blindness, we must carefully measure what has changed, otherwise we forget what was revolutionary in MeToo", he declared to France 5 in early January.