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Depardieu to open restaurant in Russian city where he lives

Agencia EFEMay 20, 2013 17:16
Moscow, May 20 (EFE).- French actor Gerard Depardieu, a Russian citizen since early this year, is soon to open a restaurant in the city where he now resides, authorities in the Mordovia region said Monday. "Depardieu told us that he will soon open a restaurant that aims to attract creative, enterprising people," Valeri Maresiev, information minister for the Russian Republic of Mordovia, told the Interfax news agency.

Depardieu and Hurley team up for Russia-set thriller

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 20:15
French actor Gerard Depardieu, who was granted Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin, is set to film a thriller in Moscow and Grozny with British actress Elizabeth Hurley. Hurley revealed on Twitter on Wednesday that she was shopping for costumes in Moscow after arriving to make the film with the veteran French actor. "Hello Moscow!" she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday after writing on May 11 that she was "prepping for a new movie I start next week in Russia with Gerard Depardieu."

Busy shooting DSK film, Depardieu fails to turn up in court

April 9, 2013 10:04
Busy shooting a film about disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu failed to turn up at a Paris hearing Friday to face a drink-driving charge, the second time he has skipped court. The actor, who has sparked controversy recently by moving to Belgium and taking Russian citizenship amid a tax row with French authorities, had also failed to appear at a January hearing due to previous engagements on the film. 'He wanted to be present, but he couldn't, he really regrets it,' his lawyer told the court Friday, adding Depardieu was currently in New York to shoot

Gerard Depardieu's trial for drunk driving postponed

April 5, 2013 12:31
Paris, Apr 5 (EFE).- Gerard Depardieu's hearing before a court in Paris for causing a motorcycle accident while drunk driving last November was delayed Friday until May 24, because the controversial French actor is in New York shooting a film about Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The actor, who faces a sentence of up to two years in jail, had already postponed a first hearing last January. At that time, Depardieu, 64, said he was in Montenegro to negotiate the production of a film and had no intention of "escaping justice."

Busy with DSK film, Depardieu misses drink-drive court case

April 5, 2013 09:45
Busy shooting a film about disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu failed to turn up at a Paris hearing Friday to face a drink-driving charge, the second time he has skipped court. The actor, who has sparked controversy recently by moving to Belgium and taking Russian citizenship amid a tax row with French authorities, had also failed to appear at a January hearing due to previous engagements on the film.

Busy shooting DSK film, Depardieu fails to turn up in court

April 5, 2013 07:45
Busy shooting a film about disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu failed to turn up at a Paris hearing Friday to face a drink-driving charge, the second time he has skipped court. The actor, who has sparked controversy recently by moving to Belgium and taking Russian citizenship amid a tax row with French authorities, had also failed to appear at a January hearing due to previous engagements on the film.

Busy shooting DSK film, Depardieu fails to turn up in court

April 5, 2013 05:15
Busy shooting a film about disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu failed to turn up at a Paris hearing Friday to face a drink-driving charge, the second time he has skipped court. The actor, who has sparked controversy recently by moving to Belgium and taking Russian citizenship amid a tax row with French authorities, had also failed to appear at a January hearing due to previous engagements on the film.

Depardieu denies he quit 'sad France' for tax reasons

March 16, 2013 17:00
Calling France a "sad" place led by an uninspired government where people are "fed up", actor Gerard Depardieu dealt his former country a healthy dose of criticism Saturday, but denied he left for tax reasons. In an interview with local Belgian television channel Notele filmed on Saturday and to be uploaded onto the site www.notele.be, the 63-year-old star of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Green Card" observed that the problem with France is "especially the lack of energy".

Actor Depardieu picks Russian abode far from French taxes

February 23, 2013 12:45
MOSCOW, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Actor Gerard Depardieu has registered as a resident of the provincial Russian city of Saransk, where he plans to open a restaurant far from the high taxes of his French homeland, Russian media said on Saturday. The 64-year-old star of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Green Card" was in Saransk on Saturday to receive a residency stamp in his newly-issued Russian passport, at a lavish ceremony attended by local officials and singers in traditional folk costumes.

Depardieu takes residence on Russia's Democracy Street

February 23, 2013 11:30
French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday formally registered as resident of the little-known Russian region of Mordovia, giving his residence as No. 1, Democracy Street. In a grand ceremony in Mordovia's main city of Saransk that bore little relation to the average Russian's experience of local bureaucracy, Depardieu signed a form and had his passport stamped to formally become a resident.
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