Cauet’s blackmailer will remain in prison. This Tuesday afternoon, this 42-year-old woman who had tried to blackmail the host on the evening of his indictment for rape was sentenced by the Court of Appeal of Versailles (Yvelines) to 30 months’ imprisonment, including 12 months suspended, Le Parisien learned. A harsh sentence, very slightly lower than that handed down at the end of January at first instance by the Nanterre criminal court: three years in prison, including a year and a half suspended.
She was also sentenced to psychological care and to no longer have any contact with Cauet and his wife. She will therefore remain behind bars despite her spectacular change in defense strategy.
After having denied the facts throughout her trial at first instance, she finally admitted on appeal to being the author of the numerous SMS sent to Sébastien Cauet in which she asked him for 30,000 euros in exchange for his silence, while the host had just been implicated for sexual violence. “I learn that the past is catching up with you. What I want is peace for both of us,” she had first sent him before hundreds of messages.
The host indicted in May 2024 for rape
“We are obviously eminently relieved that Mr. Cauet’s blackmailer has abandoned the denials against my client and thereby recognized his status as a victim of his actions. This very heavy sanction, in the Court of Appeal, confirms the serious damage brought against him and Mrs. Nathalie Dartois (sounds repellent). It also confirms that for those who would attempt to subvert #MeToo, justice remains and will remain intractable,” reacts Jade Dousselin, Sébastien Cauet’s lawyer.
The radio host, still on the air on Europe 2, was indicted in May 2024 for rape and sexual assault between 1997 and 2014 on four women, three of whom were teenagers at the time of the facts and another, a singer, an adult. The instruction continues in Paris.
