Uma Thurman felt 'violated' after being kissed by Italian entrepreneur at Cannes film festival
A representative for Thurman said the kiss was 'not consensual'
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Your support makes all the difference.Uma Thurman has said she felt “super violated” after Italian businessman Lapo Elkann kissed her at a charity gala at the Cannes Film Festival.
Photographs of Elkann, 38, and Thurman, 46, kissing and holding each other’s faces were in various reports last week following amFAR’s annual Cinema Against Aids gala event at the festival in the south of France. Thurman was hosting the event when the entrepreneur Elkan, whose grandfather is former Fiat president Gianni Agnelli, won an auction prize to attend the Victoria’s Secret catwalk show, according to People magazine.
Thurman’s spokesperson told the magazine the Pulp Fiction actress was not “complicit” in the stunt and was left unhappy and feeling violated.
“It is opportunism at its worst. She wasn’t complicit in it. Somewhere in his head he must have thought it an appropriate way of behaving. It clearly wasn’t.
“She is very unhappy that this happened to her and feels violated.” Thurman’s publicist also added to E! News that the kiss was “not consensual”.
The Independent has approached a representative for Thurman for comment, a representative for Elkann declined to comment.
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