Jean-Pierre Le Pelt

Jean-Pierre Le Pelt is a French fashion designer/model and was the secondary antagonist in the 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians. Like Cruella De Vil, he craves for fur and for clothes made from real animals and with Cruella as his idol, he agrees to help her capture 102 dalmatian puppies for her new fur coat. Their plans were foiled and was arrested along with Cruella. He was portrayed by French veteran actor Gerard Depardieu.

In the film, Cruella becomes free of her hypnotized state and returns to her way of making fur coats, against her parole. She secretly attends Le Pelt's fashion conferences where he is bombarded by PETA protesters and is splattered with red paint. Cruella meets with him afterwards where she offers a business proposition: capturing 102 dalmatian puppies and he agrees. With 99 puppies captured, Cruella instructs Le Pelt to kidnap the last three to avoid suspicion that she and her butler were behind everything. With all the puppies captured, Le Pelt brings Cruella to his factory in Paris to make the coats.

After Cruella's butler, Alonzo, accidently releases the puppies, Le Pelt scolds him and engages in a duel with him. With help from the overworked factory workers, Alonzo bounds Le Pelt in one of his coats and is defeated. When Cruella is defeated at the paws of the puppies once again, both are taken away by the French police.