{"id":2271,"date":"2025-04-04T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2271\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T03:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:32:12","slug":"jean-claude-van-damme-accused-of-having-sex-with-victims-of-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2271\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Claude Van Damme accused of having sex with victims of sex trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has reportedly filed a criminal complaint against Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN affiliate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.antena3.ro\/actualitate\/jean-claude-van-damme-are-plangere-penala-la-diicot-e-acuzat-ca-ar-fi-facut-sex-cu-romance-traficate-de-reteaua-lui-morel-bolea-741280.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Antena 3<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0the 64-year-old martial artist-turned-actor, best known for his roles in Kickboxer, Double Impact and Street Fighter,\u00a0is reportedly facing legal action in Romania for knowingly having sex with several women who were victims of sex trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The actor allegedly met with several people also under investigation for sex trafficking crimes who offered to let him have sex with five\u00a0Romanian models as a &#8220;gift.&#8221; One of these people is believed to be Romanian businessman and modeling agency owner Morel Bolea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This alleged incident is said to have taken place in Cannes and a\u00a0timeframe was not noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Cuculis, the lawyer\u00a0of one of the alleged victims, stated: \u201cAt an event organised by Jean-Claude Van Damme in Cannes, several Romanians, who are currently under investigation for forming a criminal group and pimping, allegedly offered Jean-Claude Van Damme five Romanian women &#8211; photo models in Romania &#8211; for sex.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe person who received these services was aware of their condition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Cuculis, the incident involving Jean-Claude Van Damme is part of a larger investigation launched in 2020 by the Romanian prosecutor&#8217;s office into trafficking in human beings and minors. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Considering the location of the alleged acts, the French Court de Cassation has to authorise the initiation of criminal proceedings so that the suspects can be summoned to Romania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 Antena 3<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has reportedly filed a criminal complaint against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1437,1439,77,36,1438,1002,1436,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-2271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-accusation","9":"tag-cinema","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-romania","13":"tag-sex","14":"tag-sex-trafficking","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114277590440140854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}