Reality TV candidates Illan Castronovo and Julien Bert, whose name appears in two complaints against X for rape in 2018, defend themselves on social networks.
Illan Castronovo and Julien Bert defend themselves. The two candidates seen in reality TV shows Angels, The Princes of Love Where The Villa of Broken Hearts, each expressed themselves on social networks, the day after the announcement of the opening of a judicial investigation in May 2022 after two complaints against X for rapes which occurred in 2018.
According to elements of the complaints consulted by AFP, the two young women, then aged 18 and 20, were taking part in an evening in a nightclub in Fougères-sur-Bièvres (Loir-et-Cher) when they lost acquaintance after drinking a drink offered by Illan Castronovo.
The younger of the two women said she was awakened by the light of a phone pointed in her direction, held by another reality TV personality, Julien Bert. According to the complaint, she then had her pants down with her back to Mr. Castronovo, who also had his pants down.
Many bruises
The second young woman said she came down from the lodges of the establishment without any memory, after a moment with MM. Bert and Castronovo. Her body then bore numerous bruises and her sanitary tampon was missing.
The public prosecutor of Blois told AFP that she had seized an investigating judge in her introductory indictment.
“I have zero complaints against me,” says Julien Bert in a story posted on Instagram this Friday, “I pay attention to women, especially the women around me, and I don’t disrespect them,” he says. it again.
It refers to the article of Mediapart, published last May, and relating the case and relaying his testimony, as well as that of the two young women. He had thus confided at the time to the media “to have spent very little time with Illan Castronovo” that evening and to have turned off his camera after realizing that he was “interrupting something”. He added that he didn’t know “if they were having sex because they were half-dressed”.
“No one was drugged”
Illan Castronovo also posted a video testimonial on Instagram, explaining “there was never anyone who was drugged or whatever”.
“You have just released a false story, which already came out eight months ago,” he says again. He knows it very well Julien. It’s just that with the litigation that we both have, he tries to get out of the story and if in the process he can push me a little…
“That evening, I remember it very well, I don’t drink alcohol, I remember everything I do. And him [Julien Bert] remembers it very well, he had filmed. This story has been told to so many candidates this evening was so funny. No one was forced or drugged, Julien knows that very well.”
Accused by at least five reality TV candidates
Illan Castronovo has already been accused on several occasions, including of sexual assault and harassment, by at least five candidates for reality TV shows.
In Nice, a preliminary investigation was opened in December 2021 after the report of an ex-candidate who, according to his lawyer, accuses Illan Castronovo “of rape and sexual assault” on a third party.
