Gilbert Rozon denies having violated his ex-Belle-sister, but says he has exchanged a kiss

Gilbert Rozon reported on Friday morning his version of the events reproached for him by his ex-Belle-Sister Martine Roy, one of the nine demands at the civil trial of the founder of Just Pour Rire, at the Palais de Justice de Montréal.

Martine Roy accuses Gilbert Rozon of having tried to embrace her in 1993, then of having raped her in a Lodge of the Museum just for Laughs, in 1995. She asked him for $ 1.35 million.

Ms. Roy alleges that she entered the Lodge, then that Mr. Rozon followed suit, locked the door behind him, returned to her to be back to him and raped her.

I completely deny this story, which is invented from scratchretorted the ex-magnat of humor, after having described in the long run its old museum, which closed its doors in 2011, a place under high surveillance.

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Moreover, Mr. Rozon was able, for the first time, to give his version of the facts to the court on another event in early July 1993, that is to say a kiss which he recognizes having exchanged with his ex-Belle-Sister.

Mr. Rozon and his team-of which Martine Roy was then part-were busy receiving the French singer-songwriter Charles Trenet at the Capitol de Québec.

We had a drink togethera dit M. Rozon, A bottle of white wine for twohe said at the request of the Court.

We were a bit feeling [désinhibés, NDLR]. I don’t know, we had a taste for chatting.

Once returned to Gilbert Rozon’s hotel room, She was sitting on the ground, and me on the beddescribed the founder of Just for Laughs, who argues that it was the first time that he had a real conversation With Martine Roy. What I felt was that she was trying to seduce me.

The charm has done its work, To the point of exchanging a kisshe said. After this rapprochement, Mr. Rozon says he Feel that she wanted to give herself. It was tempting, but I refused.

Mr. Rozon shared that he was ashamed of this kiss with his ex-Belle-sister. He said he had feared what [Martine Roy] talk about it [son ex-]femme and to look ridicule.

Especially since Rozon knew that one of the two sisters of her ex-wife, Danielle Roy, had an adventure with an ex-husband of the latter.

I will not be on the hunting boardsaid Mr. Rozon.

Gilbert Rozon Controvers Mary Sicari

Also, Gilbert Rozon reported his version of the events accused by another plaintiff, Mary Sicari, and which would have occurred between 1988 and 2004, while working for Rozon films and Rozon productions.

Mary Sicari notably argues that the ex-magnat of humor has forced her-many times-to put her hand on her crotch.

That’s wrongdefended Mr. Rozon.

Her lawyer, Me Mélanie Morin, also invited her to give her version of an allegation of Mrs. Sicari according to which she was forced to kiss her in pushing his tongue in his mouth As she worked at just for laughing.

I have never done such a thing, I would never have done such a thing.

At that time, there were more than 20 people working at the ticket office, in addition to surveillance cameras, he said.

Mr. Rozon portrayed Ms. Sicari as a coarse humor woman who would have developed a lot of personal problems later in his life.

Invited to give context on his workplace at the time of alleged facts, Mr. Rozon described himself as a man occupied, even overworked by the boom of his business.

Ms. Sicari also criticizes Mr. Rozon for having harassed her, the bare Look.

I wouldn’t have done that, it’s vulgarhe decided.

Invented for television

In turn, Mr. Rozon denied the allegations of Julie Snyder and Pénélope Mcquade, who are not among the nine demands, but who both testified similar facts by solidarity with the requests.

The host and producer Julie Snyder alleges that Mr. Rozon assaulted him in Paris, in his apartment of Just for Laughs in 1991, when she was 23 years old. After feeling pressure on her back and believed in a burglary, she saw a hand on one of her breasts and the face of Gilbert Rozon.

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Mr. Rozon categorically denies the version of Ms. Snyder. He remembers that Julie Snyder asked her to come to her apartment located in the 8th arrondissement after a break with the singer-songwriter and actor Patrick Bruel. She says: “I need to come, I need to be comforted”.

I can tell you that she was in a big pain of lovehe said to the court.

Unlike Ms. Snyder, who claims to have run away until the Champs-Élysées, Mr. Rozon says that Ms. Snyder slept in the apartment and left in the morning.

“It was invented for television, to make a show.”

Not only did I never feel attracted, in no way I thought of making her advances, neverand insists M. Rozon.

As for her, the host Pénélope McQuade alleges that Mr. Rozon “tightened him in a binding manner” in the bathroom of the just for laughter museum, in July 1997, when she was a young cultural columnist at TVA.

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For his part, Mr. Rozon remembers entering the museum’s employees’ bathroom, having Given a blonde lady leaning over the sinkbefore apologizing for this involuntary intrusion and closing the door behind him. According to his version, Mr. Rozon is not sure that the young woman was Mr. McQuade.

Let us recall that Mr. Rozon continues Ms. Snyder and Mcquade in defamation for $ 450,000 for having said to the program The week of 4 Julie From September 29, 2020 that he had made sexual gestures not granted towards them, which he denies.

Dust falls

As soon as the hearing is opened, judge Chantal Tremblay asked Mr. Rozon: I want to make sure you are in a good state of mind to testify today.

I’m going to do my best, Madam Judgereplied Mr. Rozon.

Thursday, at the time of a break, Stefano Carbo, the plaintiff of the plaintiff Danie Frenette, followed Gilbert Rozon in a cubicule outside the courtroom and, according to Mr. Rozon, would have raised his hand on him. A formal complaint has been filed, he repeated.

The trial takes its course

On Wednesday, during his third day at the helm, Mr. Rozon gave details for the first time on the events that occurred in his room in the Manoir Rouville-Campbell with a young croupier in 1998.

Also, the Court has learned that the CEO of Quebecor, Pierre-Karl Péladeau, will testify on August 29, if the two parties agree on what must be deposited as proof concerning a so-called cassation of the business relationship with just for laughter and Quebecor.

On Thursday, on his fourth day of testimony, Gilbert Rozon denied the allegations of sexual assault in Danie Frenette, in 1988, as well as the sexual allegations of Salomé Corbo, the daughter-in-law of the latter, when she was a minor.

The nine requests (Patricia Tulasne, Lyne Charlebois, Anne-Marie Charrette, Annick Charrette, Sophie Moreau, Danie Frenette, Guylaine Courcelles, Mary Sicari and Martine Roy) claim nearly $ 14 million in damages for touching and sexual assaults that they say they have suffered between 1982 and 2004.

Gilbert Rozon has denied these allegations from the start.