Born in 1976 from the union between Richard Berry and actress Catherine Hiegel, Coline Berry-Rojtman had filed a complaint for “rape and sexual assault on a minor” on January 25, 2021, triggering the opening of a preliminary investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Richard Berry, 71, denies outright, as does Jeane Manson who lives part of the year in Aurillac, where she sued her ex-stepdaughter for defamation.
The start of the hearing on Friday morning gave rise to long debates between lawyers, those of the defense pleading the impossibility of judging defamation, while the facts denounced by Coline Berry-Rojtman are the subject of investigation. But the court did not follow them and launched the interrogation of the latter.
The laughter of Jeane Manson
At the bar, she repeats what she said in “Le Monde” regarding the sexual games that Richard Berry would have led, including that of the “orchestra”, in which she had to play with her father’s sex, compared to a “flute” or a “trumpet”, sometimes in the presence of Jeane Manson. She also mentioned “kisses on the mouth with the tongue”: “I only knew that,” she said.
Coline Berry-Rojtman claims to have tried to talk regarding it with her father but to have “never obtained anything from him” because “he is in denial”. Jeane Manson, following laughing ostensibly several times during the interrogation of her accuser, in turn answers the questions of the court.
For her, the article in Le Monde “is such a despicable lie, so ugly. She never saw me naked, she never touched my breasts. […] She lies and when we lie, we are always discovered, ”assures the former American singer.