Jean-Claude Van Damme responds to sex trafficking claims

Jean-Claude Van Damme is countering at allegations he supposedly made love with 5 Romanian females he understood were trafficked.

” We have actually ended up being conscious of posts declaring a supposed affair in Cannes including Mr. Jean-Claude Van Damme,” the action star’s representative, Patrick Goavec, stated in a declaration equated from French on Wednesday.

” The reported truths are both monstrous and non-existent,” Goavec told People “Mr. Van Damme does not want to comment or sustain this report, which is as unreasonable as it is unproven.”

The declaration comes one week after CNN affiliate Antena 3 reported that a criminal grievance was submitted with the Romanian Directorate for Examining The Mob and Terrorism declaring that Van Damme, 64, had sexual relations with 5 females being trafficked by a criminal company led by Morel Bolea.

The supposed events occurred in Cannes at an occasion arranged by the “Bloodsport” star, and the females– all designs– were supposedly provided as a “present” to him, according to the grievance gotten by Antena 3.

The females “remained in a state of vulnerability, with the suspicion that they were made use of within the significance of Short article 182 of the Lawbreaker Code,” Adrian Cuculis, a lawyer for among the declared victims, informed the news outlet.

” At one point in Cannes, at an occasion arranged by Jean-Claude Van Damme, numerous Romanians who are presently being examined for the facility of a criminal group and pimping supposedly provided Jean-Claude Van Damme 5 Romanian females– photo designs in Romania– for him to have sexual relations [with],” Cuculis stated, per a translation.

” The individual who got those advantages understood their condition,” Cuculis continued in the equated declaration offered to Antena 3. “From the witness declarations, it is extremely clear that Jean-Claude Van Damme understood that these individuals were being made use of.”

Among the females who saw the supposed occurrence communicated the details to district attorneys, according to Antena 3. DIICOT consequently opened a criminal examination on the star.

In a remark offered to Page 6, Bolea called the report “entirely phony news” and rejected having a “connection with” Van Damme.

The case will continue to the High Court of Cassation in France where criminal procedures need to be licensed. Per Antena 3, thinks in the event will be purchased to Romania to supply declarations.

Cuculis informed the outlet that the case belongs to a bigger examination into trafficking, consisting of trafficking of minors, that started 5 years back in Romania.

Van Damme increased to popularity in the late 1980s with “Bloodsport” and affected the action category with subsequent films consisting of “Timecop,” “Street Fighter,” “Lionheart” and “The Expendables 2.”

The star has actually been wed 5 times to 4 various females and has 3 kids– Kristopher and Bianca Brigitte, whom he shows 3rd spouse Gladys Portugues, and Nicholas, whom he shows 4th spouse Darcy LaPier.

In 2018, his child Nicholas pled guilty to disorderly conduct for supposedly holding a roomie at knifepoint in Phoenix. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation for the occurrence.