Jean-Marc Morandini definitively convicted by the Court of Cassation for corruption of minors

He has exhausted all avenues of appeal. Host Jean-Marc Morandini was definitively found guilty this Wednesday, January 14 by the Court of Cassation after the rejection of his appeal in the context of his conviction for corruption of minors for messages of a sexual nature sent to three adolescents between 2009 and 2016.

The 60-year-old man, who still works on the CNews channel with a daily show, was sentenced on March 21, 2025 to two years in prison and a fine of 20,000 euros by the Paris Court of Appeal. The courts also issued a definitive ban on exercising a profession in contact with minors and confirmed his registration in the file of perpetrators of sexual offenses.

Naked photos requested from minors

At first instance, in December 2022, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced him to one year in prison with a probationary period of two years. The host then appealed and saw his sentence increased at the end of his second trial.

In this case, he was accused of having sent messages to two 15-year-olds, in 2013 and 2015-2016, which consisted, for one, of discussing sexual scenarios and, for the second, of asking him to send a naked photo of himself. The court found him guilty of having also asked a 16-year-old teenager in 2009 to strip and masturbate during an audition for the remake of a film that never saw the light of day.

Convicted in a second case for sexual harassment

This figure in the French audiovisual landscape was also sentenced on appeal in January 2025 to 18 months in prison for sexual harassment against a young actor, six months more than the sentence handed down at first instance.

In this case, he was prosecuted for having encouraged between June and September 2015 actors, aged 19 to 26 at the time of the facts, to exhibit themselves naked for the castings of a web series entitled “Les Faucons”, of which he was the producer. In this other procedure, the host also filed a cassation appeal, which has not yet been examined.