Isabelle Adjanidiva and one of France’s most revered actresses, received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a €250,000 fine for tax fraud in a Paris court.
As reported VarietyAdjani was found guilty of establishing permanent residence in Portugal between 2016 and 2017 to avoid paying 236,000 euros in taxes, depositing 120,000 euros in a US account without declaring it and “disguising” a donation of two million euros.
According to the AFP news agency, Adjani – nominated for an Oscar for Camille Claudel y The story of Adele H.– flatly denied those charges and announced that he will file an appeal.
The French actress had been tried on October 19 at the Paris Correctional Court for “tax fraud” and “money laundering.” This was part of an investigation that began when his name appeared in 2016 in the well-known Panama Papers.
“We are truly dismayed by this ruling,” his defense attorneys said. “Isabelle could not attend the trial and we had asked to reschedule it so that she could be there to be heard, but they did not allow it. “They pursue her relentlessly.”
Adjani was also under investigation for alleged fraud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in business expenses since October 2020. The parallel investigation arose from a police complaint filed by a former business partner in 2015.
Despite ongoing legal problems, the down-and-out star – now 68 years old – has seen her career flourish in recent years with a series of roles. For example, she just played a con artist in Melanie Laurent’s Netflix film, Thieves. She also played the lead role in Petra von Kantby Francois Ozon, which opened the Berlin Film Festival in 2022.
He made his film debut at the age of 14 with the film The little bougnat (1970). She was immediately the youngest nominee for the Oscar for best leading actress until then, which is why her name became famous: Intimate diary of Adela H. (1975). François Truffaut became obsessed with her. He was not the only one of her: her otherworldly beauty was in The tenant (1976), by Roman Polanski.
An actress with projection
A film about the Brönte sisters, alongside Isabelle Huppert, and the remake of Nosferatu (1979), directed by Werner Herzog, made her one of the most promising actresses in the cinema that followed the nouvelle vague stage.
“With a hypnotic look and an oval face, her style, always theatrical, has matured at the same time as the relationship between cinema and fashion itself,” the magazine said of her. Vogue.
“I want you to catch your breath.” That was the only marking Adjani received from director Andrzej Zulawski for a shocking scene in A possessed woman. With that role, Adjani won the best actress award at Cannes. What we see is a collection of convulsive spasms for a suffocating five minutes. Her body writhes violently against the ground and hits the walls of a deserted corridor in the Berlin subway, while blood gushes out like tears of passion.