Accused of tax fraud and money laundering, actress Isabelle Adjani firmly denies the charges against her and says she is the victim of “relentless harassment”.
While she is due to appear this October 19 before the Paris criminal court for tax fraud and money laundering, Isabelle Adjani assures that she has never participated in embezzlement. The administration criticizes her in particular for not having declared a donation of two million euros by hiding it as a loan, and also for having assured that she was living in Portugal when this was not the case.
In an interview with Paris Match published on October 12, the 68-year-old actress assures that she lives in Portugal, more precisely in Carcavelos, near Lisbon: “Yes, I live in a small building which does not pay mine. Sorry, I’m not the owner of a mansion with a spa, but the tenant of an apartment with a large parking lot that I converted into a loft and my whole life is in storage.
When she goes to Paris, Isabelle Adjani says she stays with friends or at a hotel, in the latter case “when it’s professional and a production, as for any artist, covers the costs.”
“Never wealthy”
The five-César actress claims to be the victim of relentless harassment in this affair, because “a well-known actress is a projection surface and also a target”. On the rumors that say she is “ruined”, she retorts: “You cannot be ruined when you have never been wealthy. And added: “I earned more money than the average, but I gave and lost more than the average too.”
The star, known in particular for her roles in “The Murderous Summer” (1983) and “La Reine Margot” (1994), is accused of having defrauded the tax administration in 2013, 2016 and 2017 through two mechanisms , detailed AFP last July. She would have concealed “a donation of two million euros from Mamadou Diagna NDiaye, under the cover of a loan, allowing her to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer taxes”, and she would have fictitiously domiciled in Portugal, thus allowing him to “evade 236,000 euros of income tax”, detailed a judicial source.