Stéphane Plaza is now the target of an investigation for domestic violence. Originally, an article from Mediapart, published on September 21, in which three ex-partners accuse him of humiliation, threats and violence.
Three weeks ago, Mediapart published an article against the host. The Paris prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday October 10, 2023 that an investigation for domestic violence was now open against Stéphane Plaza. “Two letters from women were received at the Paris prosecutor’s office accusing violence committed” by the flagship host of M6 “during [their] relationship,” the prosecutor’s office precisely revealed.
Stéphane Plaza is accused by three former partners of acts of violence in a Mediapart article published Thursday, September 21. They say they suffered “verbal and psychological violence (humiliation, denigration, threats)” from the real estate agent and two of them describe “physical attacks.” They further claimed to the investigative newspaper that they had maintained a relationship with the host without knowing that he was seeing other people, accusing him of “exerting manipulation, pressure and mistreatment” to “make several relationships coexist serious at the same time.
Stéphane Plaza would have refused to respond to requests from Mediapart on these various matters. The host’s lawyer, Me Hélène Plumet, denounced “totally extrapolated, even false allegations” and “fanciful accusations”. She also announced that Stéphane Plaza had filed a complaint against them last June for harassment and cyberharassment.
Among the testimonies revealed by Mediapart against the fifty-year-old host and real estate agent, one of his ex-partners, who allegedly provided written testimony to a bailiff in May 2022, accuses him of having “returned with violence” several fingers during a fit of fury. “Three of my fingers were hanging off, they quickly turned purple and swollen,” she assures. She also claims to have been “punched in the shoulder”. Another of his former partners, who would have filed a handrail in September 2022, claims that he would have inflicted “bites” on her. Threats are also mentioned in this Mediapart article.
Stéphane Plaza’s lawyer assures Mediapart that these testimonies come from “three women he dated and who, finally rejected, joined forces against him to harm him by all means”. His lawyer also told Mediapart that a complaint for harassment and cyberstalking was filed against one of the accusers in June 2023: “The facts are sufficiently serious for Mr. Plaza to fear for his life, as he indicated to district Attorney”. A prosecution was also reportedly filed against one of the accusers in October 2021.
In a press release, Stéphane Plaza’s counsel denounced “defamatory and insulting accusations”. “Mediapart acted as relay for three women who undermine the dignity” of Stéphane Plaza, “thus making themselves complicit in the public denigration against the latter, while they are the subject of a criminal complaint that he filed [against them] for harassment and cyberharassment,” we can still read.
The M6 ??group, for its part, reacted to the information late in the evening, Thursday September 21. On X (formerly Twitter), he indicated that he had an interview with Stéphane Plaza after the information appeared in the press. Saying that it was “particularly attached to the values ??of respect for people and guarantor of its code of ethics and professional conduct”, the M6 ??group announced that it was taking “note of Stéphane Plaza’s formal challenge to the facts with which he is accused and of the legal challenges that ‘he committed’.
