By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 12:14, Updated yesterday at 17:24
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The former singer suffered a “heart attack” on Tuesday and was hospitalized in Lyon, after an appeal hearing in the defamation case between her and the daughter of actor Richard Berry.
Former singer Jeane Manson was the victim of a “heart attack” and hospitalized in Lyon, after an appeal hearing in the defamation case between her and the daughter of actor Richard Berry, her agent announced on Wednesday. The firefighters confirmed his care in the evening for “chest pain”.
“His vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy. Everything was taken on time”added his manager to AFP, specifying that Jeane Manson “will remain hospitalized in Lyon for a few days”.
Jeane Manson, 73, was rescued “by the firefighters” in the precincts of the court of appeal, then hospitalized. The former American partner of Richard Berry left the courtroom quickly in the evening, visibly very agitated, when her lawyer was to take the floor for his plea, noted an AFP journalist. The Lyon Court of Appeal re-examined the case between Jeane Manson and Coline Berry-Rojtman on Tuesday.
The judgment was reserved until July 17.
The investigation opened in Paris targeting the actor accused of incest by his daughter was dismissed on August 31, 2022 due to statute of limitations.
Jeane Manson had decided to sue her ex-daughter-in-law for defamation before the Aurillac court, in Cantal, where she lives part of the year.
In April 2022, the court sentenced Coline Berry-Rojtman, born in 1976, to a fine of 2,000 euros for defamation.
The Riom Court of Appeal (Puy-de-Dôme) confirmed this conviction in December 2022. But in December 2023, the Court of Cassation annulled this judgment and sent the case back to the Lyon Court of Appeal.
During the hearing on Tuesday, Jeane Manson repeated: “I am not a rapist, not a liar”. “I’m a victim, I haven’t slept in three years”, she insisted. His lawyer Jacques Verdier denounced a «vengeance» of Coline Berry-Rojtman against her father, including her client “appears as a collateral victim”.
For her part, Coline Berry-Rojtman maintained her position: “For me, this is the most blatant injustice because I am being prosecuted for having denounced the facts of which I was a victim”.“She must be protected”insisted one of the defense lawyers, Patrick Klugman, at the close of the debates, calling on the court to “stop this scandal”.