Claude Lévêque is in turmoil. The famous 67-year-old plastic surgeon is indeed accused of sexual abuse by the sculptor Laurent Faulon, who took legal action on February 20, 2019 via an eight-page letter addressed to the Bobigny prosecutor for facts which would have taken place between his 10 and 17 years. "I am aware that the criminal acts of which I was a victim are certainly now prescribed. But this complaint allows me to denounce to justice other acts not prescribed on other victims and to report that one or several minors are currently in great danger of sexual abuse if the irreparable has not already been committed ", wrote the now 51-year-old artist in this letter unveiled by The world. Following this missive, the Bobigny public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation, still in progress, for rape and sexual assault on minors under 15 years old. An investigation entrusted to the departmental security of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Monday January 11, 2021, the show team Daily returned to this affair that is shaking the art world. The opportunity to recall that as an eminent personality in the field, the artist had exhibited in very prestigious places and that one of his creations had even been chosen for decorate an office at 55 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. "Ultimate validation, Claude Lévêque is in one Emmanuel Macron's offices at the Elysée ", explained the young and brilliant columnist Ambre Chalumeau. "President Macron regularly treads on one of his wool rugs, called the Black Sun, which represents a huge crystal chandelier ", can we indeed read in the article of World who revealed the case. Enough to embarrass the president …
The terrible memories of Laurent Faulon
On January 16, 2019, during his first and only audition, Laurent Faulon returned to the abuses he allegedly suffered. The very first touches would have taken place on his 10th birthday, August 6, 1979: "We went to the balcony, because Lévêque wanted to take pictures of me, portraits. Then he asked me to sit on his lap, he kissed my neck, he stroked my thighs over my pants and stroked my stomach against my skin, putting his hand under my T-shirt. He did it all chatting and laughing ", he remembered. The artist from Nièvre ensures that the actions of Claude Lévêque would have gone crescendo: before Laurent Faulon put an end to it in 1986, it would have been about daily sex.
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