#Maïwenn Le Besco

[girlwhodoeskratom]

Maïwenn Le Besco @ Jean Paul Gaultier Spring/Summer, 1996 Ready-to-Wear

[the-marquis]

Maïwenn Le Besco as Jeanne du Barry

Jeanne du Barry 2023.

[sophiemariepl]

Okay, I was Googling “Jeanne du Barry”, the new movie with Johnny Depp that just came out by French director of Algerian and Vietnamese descent, Maïwenn.

And a huge trigger warning, before you continue on reading.

I genuinely wanted to learn more about it’s director and main actress, that is, the aforementioned Maïwenn, as it was the first time I heard about her. And I stumbled upon the information that apart from being an actress and a film director, she is also Luc Besson’s ex-wife, and apparently they have a daughter together - Shanna Leila Besson, who also happens to be a well-known French actress and photographer.

But something did not add up. Wikipedia stated that Shanna Leila Besson is already 30, while Maïwenn is around 46/47. Like, wtf…

Only then I learned that Luc Besson met her when she was only 12 and he was 29. They began to “date” Maïwenn when she was only 15. Also, they got married when she was 16, and he was in his early 30s. And that Maïwenn had Shanna when she was only 17. Besson left her when she turned 20, for Milla Jovovich. And apparently it was Besson’s relationship with Maïwenn that inspired the movie “Léon: The Professional”.

Like, honestly, WTF? Why is no one talking about this? Like, the whole world was apparently watching this situation and nobody said a word?

But unfortunately, that is not the end of this story. It seems like Maïwenn, despite being a de facto victim of Luc Besson, she has a huge Stockholm syndrome herself.

While researching Maïwenn on the French side of the internet (thank God I do know some French), I stumbled upon an interview in which she apparently… defends Roman Polański. And mind you, this is not an old interview. This is from 2020, so relatively fresh, and definitely made in the post-#MeToo era. Yeah, I know that the events in the English-speaking world may not have the same impact on the situation for instance in the Francophone world, but still. Still!

That said, I really doubt that we should support her new movie. Yeah, I know that many people are excited to see Johnny Depp back on the big screen, but should we really give a bigger platform to a director who openly supported a man who has used a 13-year-old? And not to mention, who despite being herself a de facto victim of a child m*lester, she still stands with the abusers, not with the abused?

(Because I’m not even delving into Depp’s situation, this is a rabbit hole on its own, and I honestly don’t care if you’re a Johnny Depp stan or Amber Heard stan, take your sh*tty war somewhere else than this post.)

Like, I’m not a big fan of cancel culture. Or rather, I’m not a fan of it at all. But at this point, this is a question of an extremely delicate matter, and that is, the safety of children in our society.

[sophiemariepl]

That’s what I’m talking about

[corpseprxnce]

Leon: The Professional (1994) is a fine film (not a great one), until you learn it's based on writer and director Luc Besson's real life relationship between himself and Maïwenn Le Besco, when he was 32 and she was 15.

It gets even worse when you learn that they only dated when she was 15 because it was the legal age in the country they were in. He met her when she was 12. Besson also has other allegations against him regarding a former assistant.

There are so many nonces in cinema it actually kills it for me.

[faces-of-7th-art]

@johnyy.depp portrait Cannes 1992Με αφορμή το come back του Johnny Depp στον κινηματογράφο και στις Κάννες με το κινηματογραφικό έργο της σκηνοθέτιδας Maïwenn Le Besco''Jeanne du Barry'' αναρτώ ενα πορτραιτο του όταν τον πρωτοφωτογραφισα το 1992 στις Κάννες,όταν πρωταγωνιστούσε στο ''Arizona Dream'' του Emir Kusturica.On the occasion of Johnny Depp's comeback in the movies industry and in Festival de Cannes with the movie of the director Maïwenn Le Besco''Jeanne du Barry'', I am posting a portrait of him when I first photographed in 1992 in Cannes, when he starred in Emir Kusturica's ''Arizona Dream''.

[culturevsnews-blog]

Haute Tension avec Cécile de France (Acteur), Maïwenn Le Besco (Acteur), Alexandre Aja (Réalisateur)

Marie, une étudiante de vingt ans, révise ses examens dans la ferme isolée des parents de sa meilleure amie. En l’espace d’une nuit, un tueur, qui ignore son existence, assassine à tour de rôle les membres de cette famille… Dans le thriller haletant “Haute Tension”, Cécile de France et Maïwenn incarnent respectivement les rôles de Marie et Alex, deux amies dont le séjour tranquille dans la ferme…

[oelnet]

Maïwenn Le Besco reconnaît avoir agressé Edwy Plenel - Le HuffPost

Maïwenn Le Besco reconnaît avoir agressé Edwy Plenel  Le HuffPostVoir la couverture complète sur Google Actualités

[jogallice]

Médias : le journaliste Edwy Plenel a porté plainte contre la réalisatrice Maïwenn Le Besco pour violences.

See on Scoop.it - JamesO

Agression : selon le journaliste, les articles publiés par Médiapart sur les soupçons de viol visant Luc Besson, ancien compagnon et père d'un des enfants de la cinéaste, pourraient avoir motivé l'agression qu'il dit avoir subie dans un restaurant parisien fin février.

JamesO's insight:

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Maïwenn le Besco @ Jean Paul Gaultier Spring/Summer, 1996 Ready-to-Wear

[hopefulkidshark]

Maïwenn

French actress and filmmaker

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.

Born: April 17, 1976, Les Lilas

Spouse: Jean-Yves Le Fur (m. 2002–2004), Luc Besson (m. 1992–1997)

Children: Shanna Besson, Diego Le Fur

Parents: Catherine Belkhodja, Patrick Le Besco

Siblings: Isild Le Besco, Kolia Litscher, Jowan Le Besco, Leonor Graser

Height: 1.73 m

[ulrichgebert]

The Fifth Element, der auch schon wieder 25 Jahre alt ist, hat sich gut gehalten, befinden wir. Daß es damals noch Außerirdische waren, die die Zukunft der Menschheit bedrohten, hat natürlich schon fast etwas rührendes.

[gebo4482]

The Fifth Element / Le Cinquième élément (1997)

Directed by Luc Besson

[cinemafanatic]

“Protect life until death.“

The Fifth Element (1997)

[hopefulkidshark]

Maïwenn

French actress and filmmaker

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.

Born: April 17, 1976, Les Lilas

Spouse: Jean-Yves Le Fur (m. 2002–2004), Luc Besson (m. 1992–1997)

Children: Shanna Besson, Diego Le Fur

Parents: Catherine Belkhodja, Patrick Le Besco

Siblings: Isild Le Besco, Kolia Litscher, Jowan Le Besco, Leonor Graser

Height: 1.73 m

[madamehearthwitch]

In 1957, 23 year old Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin, 13 year old Myra Brown. She still believed in Santa.

In 1959, Elvis Presley met his future wife. He was 25 and she was 14.

In 1975, Steven Tyler purchased the guardianship of a 16 year old girl (Julia Holcomb) from her mother when he was 27 so that he could legally take her with him across state lines while he was on tour.

Colored over a "grand romance" and a "decades long relationship", Celine Dion was 12 years old when 38 year old Rene Angelil became her manager. They went public with their relationship when she was 19.

In 1984, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman started dating Mandy Smith. She was 13. Although they did not marry until she was 18, Mandy says she was 14 when they first had sex. Mr. Wyman has never been investigated, much less prosecuted.

In 1991, 32 year old director Luc Besson met and eventually married model Maïwenn Le Besco when she was 15. Their relationship inspired his movie Léon: The Professional (1994), which followed an emotional relationship between an adult man and a young girl.

In 1993, Jerry Seinfeld picked up a high school student in a public park. He was 39 and she was 17. He and Shoshanna Lonstein dated for four years -- through her college years.

Noted pedophile R Kelley secretly married R&B singer Aaliyah in 1994 when she was 15 and he was 27. They met when she was 14 and he helped write and produce her first album -- "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number."

In 1997, Woody Allen should have become notorious when he married his step-daughter. Though she was 21 at the time of the wedding, the two met when she 8. No matter the spin, the facts are stark.

It's the early-mid 2000s and "That 70s Show" actor, Wilmer Valderrama, continues to date teenage girls in an effort to deny that he is now over 30. He dated 16-year-old Mandy Moore despite being four years her senior. At age 24, Valderrama dated 17-year-old Lindsay Lohan though they kept the relationship a secret until her 18th birthday in 2004. In 2010, the 30-year-old began dating 17-year-old Demi Lovato.

Back in 2004, 26 year old Joel Madden and Hilary Duff did the familiar dance of being "just friends" until her 18th birthday in 2006.

Rapper Tyga and Kylie Jenner began "hanging out" an awful lot beginning in 2014 when she was 16 and he was 24. They dated on and off after that, though they became a lot more openly "on" after her 18th birthday in 2016.

2018 -- 14 year old Millie Bobby Brown innocently revealed that rapper, Drake, age 31, has been with her, for the last year giving her advice about boys. They are friends, she says. He texts her, "I miss you." This is the same Drake who has, more than once, skated around that "just friends until she turns 18" line -- most recently with 18 year old model Bella Harris.

Guys, this isn't a friendship. This is GROOMING. No one will stop it. They'll "date." He'll have sex with her, probably in a couple of years. No one will care because he's a man and a star.

NO ONE WILL CARE UNLESS WE START MAKING PEOPLE CARE.

Make them care. No free passes. No 2nd chances (one little girl is all you get, boys.) A ruined career is the least they deserve. It's not cute. THIS IS NOT OK.

~ Verity Violet

[from She the People]