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Actor Gerard Depardieu compares Vladimir Putin to Pope John Paul II
French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia needs as a leader. Depardieu is preparing to shoot a new film in Moscow and the Chechen capital Grozny — a…
Putin grants French actor Gerard Depardieu Russian citizenship
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted fast-track citizenship to France’s Gerard Depardieu after the movie star complained about the French Socialist government’s proposed 75 percent tax on the rich. The decision appears to give Depardieu — a frequent guest of the Moscow celebrity circuit who nonetheless never asked for…
Putin offers French actor Gerard Depardieu Russian passport following tax controversy
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready to offer French movie star Gerard Depardieu a Russian passport to resolve his tax row, calling him a friend. “If Gerard really wants to have a residency permit in Russia or a Russian passport, we can consider this issue resolved…
Actor Gerard Depardieu ‘giving up French passport’ in tax controversy
France’s leading actor Gerard Depardieu said on Sunday he was giving up his French passport after being “insulted” by the prime minister calling him “pathetic” for becoming a tax exile in Belgium. In an open letter to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, the 63-year-old “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “Green Card” star…
Gerard Depardieu to play ‘smug’ Strauss-Kahn
French actor Gerard Depardieu said on Thursday he would play the “arrogant, smug” former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film about his fall from grace in a series of sex scandals. “I will do it, because I don’t like him,” said Depardieu, best known for his larger-than-life swashbuckling roles…
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