Gisèle Pelicot Releases Global Memoir After Landmark Rape Trial as Simone Biles Praises Her Courage

Gisèle Pelicot released her memoir "A Hymn to Life, Shame has to Change Sides" in 22 languages after the landmark trial of her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot.The book follows the October 2025 sentencing of Dominique Pelicot to 20 years for orchestrating the decade-long drugging and rape of his former wife by 50 men.Simone Biles praised the survivor for waiving her anonymity, which helped catalyze a new French law defining rape as any sexual act lacking consent.