Gisèle Pelicot
French feminist icon and serial-rape victim (born 1952)
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- Gisèle Pelicot ( French: [ʒizɛl peliko] ; née Guillou , born 7 December 1952) is a French woman who became a feminist icon in 2024, when she waived her right to anonymity as the victim in a multiple rape case.
- She only became aware of the abuse in 2020, when Dominique was arrested for upskirting women in a local supermarket and a police search of his computer equipment revealed images of her being raped.
- Her name was later included in the BBC's 2024 100 Women and the Financial Times list of the twenty‑five most influential women of the year.
- In February 2026, she published a co-written memoir.
- She arrived in France when she was five; her mother died of cancer when she was nine.
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WikipediaGisèle Pelicot (French: [ʒizɛl peliko] ; née Guillou, born 7 December 1952) is a French woman who became a feminist icon in 2024, when she waived her right to anonymity as the victim in a multiple rape case.
Between 2011 and 2020, she was drugged and raped by her husband Dominique and dozens of other men while she was unconscious, mostly in the couple's home in Mazan. She only became aware of the abuse in 2020, when Dominique was arrested for upskirting women in a local supermarket and a police search of his computer equipment revealed images of her being raped.
The case attracted international media attention and Gisèle's courage and determination to speak out on behalf of all victims of sexual assault won her international support and admiration. Her name was later included in the BBC's 2024 100 Women and the Financial Times list of the twenty‑five most influential women of the year. She was appointed a knight of the Legion of Honour on Bastille Day (14 July 2025). In February 2026, she published a co-written memoir.
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