A French court has ordered that Bollywood actor Mallika Sherawat be evicted from an apartment in a posh part of Paris for failing to keep up with the rent. The actor, however, has denied earlier that she owns or rents any apartment in Paris.

In a December 14 ruling accessed by AFP on Tuesday, the court told Sherawat and her French husband Cyrille Auxenfans to pay 78,787 euros ($94,000) in rent owed and expenses, giving the green light for their furniture to be seized.

The couple began renting the apartment in the pricey 16th district on January 1, 2017, for a monthly sum of 6,054 euros. But according to the owner they never paid the rent, making only a single payment of 2,715 euros.

At a hearing in a Paris court on November 14, a lawyer for the couple said they were in financial difficulty. The lawyer emphasised the “irregular” nature of Sherawat’s work — an argument dismissed by the owners of the apartment who claimed she had earned tens of millions during the rental period.

In mid-December last year, the actor had denied having a Paris apartment. “It’s absolutely not true, if someone has donated one to me, please send me the address,” she tweeted in response to media reports about the case.