The Bollywood actor Mallika Sherawat was punched in the face and sprayed with teargas by masked attackers in an upmarket area of Paris, police have said.
The 40-year-old star and her partner were attacked by three masked men who tried to steal her handbag.
The incident comes weeks after the US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was attacked in Paris in a robbery in which a masked gang stole jewellery worth more than $10m (£8m).
“We cannot understand why the attackers fled without taking anything,” a source in the investigation told AFP.