Coline Berry-Rotjman does not intend to give up and will go in front of the Court of Cassation. Sentence of Richard Berry’s daughter for defamation of his ex-mother-in-law Jeane Manson was confirmed on Thursday by the Riom Court of Appeal (Puy de Dome). The lawyer of Coline Berry-Rotjman, Me Patrick Klugman, immediately announced an appeal in cassation. On April 14, at the end of the first instance trial, the Aurillac court sentenced Coline Berry-Rojtman, 46, to a fine of 2,000 euros for defamation. The actor’s daughter also had to pay 20,000 euros in damages to her former mother-in-law, as well as 5,000 euros in legal costs. The Riom Court of Appeal added the same amount for legal costs, i.e. a total of 10,000 euros.
“Faced with a decision that criminalizes voice of victims of sexual violence, Coline Berry decides to appeal in cassation, ”said Me Klugman’s cabinet in a press release. “This decision contains all the elements of a scandal which cannot and must not continue either in our rule of law or for the freedom of speech of victims of sexual abuse and incest”, he specified. , regretting in particular that the first instance decision was rendered while the investigation on the merits was in progress.
“End of a judicial episode”
“It is the end of a legal episode which restores the truth for the benefit of Jeane Manson and Richard Berry. The lies are exposed, and Coline Berry is defeated in her allegations,” theAFP Me Jacques Verdier, Jeane Manson’s lawyer, adding that his client was “very happy”.
On February 14, 2021, in an article published by The worldColine Berry-Rojtman evoked sexual violence she allegedly suffered as a minor in 1984 and 1985 at the home of his father who was then living with Jeane Manson, accused of having participated with him in these attacks. The 71-year-old former singer had decided to sue her ex-daughter-in-law for defamation in court in Aurillac, in Cantal, where she lives part of the year. Also implicated, the journalists of the World and the daily had not been condemned. The investigation aimed the actor accused of incest by his daughter has been filed away on August 31 due to prescription.