French actor Gérard Depardieu has been summoned for questioning over renewed allegations of sexual assault, a spokesman for his lawyer's office told dpa on Monday.
French media reported that the 75-year-old has been taken into police custody. The Paris public prosecutor's office said it could not confirm the reports.
A set decorator in February accused Depardieu of sexual harassment during the shooting of the film "Les Volets verts" (The Green Shutters) in 2021, while another woman recently accused him of non-consensual sexual touching and making obscene remarks on the set of the short film "Le Magicien et les Siamois" (The Magician and the Siamese Twins) in 2014.
Depardieu, a veteran of French cinema, has faced a number of allegations of sexual misconduct in recent years.
He was charged with the rape of actress Charlotte Arnould in 2020 in a case that remains open. Depardieu denies the accusation.
The award-winning actor described himself last year as the victim of "media lynching" in an open letter in Le Figaro newspaper.
He found himself under renewed scrutiny in December after vulgar comments about women and young girls made in a 2018 trip to North Korea were broadcast on French television.
France's minister of culture at the time decided not to strip the actor of the Legion of Honour, the highest French order of merit.
However, Depardieu lost the National Order of Quebec and had his figure at the Paris Wax Museum removed.