Who is Gisele Pelicot? Gisele Pelicot is a 72-year-old French woman. She is in the news because her husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, age 72, has been sentenced to a 20-year jail term, for secretly drugging her before violating her and inviting strangers to do the same. What did Dominique Pelicot do? In 2011 Gisele Pelicot chose not to be the victim or take the blame for what was done to her.