A prolific author and passionate about words, Jean-Loup Dabadie has dedicated his life to writing with unfailing energy.
Throughout his career, he left an indelible mark on the literary and cinematic world before take his last breath on May 24, 2020, at the age of 82.
Devastated by the disappearance of their father, Clément, Florent and Clémentine were all the more upset to learn that the writer had left them nothing as an inheritance..
Jean-Loup Dabadie has indeed chosen to leave the entire usufruct of his property and his rights to his last wife Véronique Bachet. A betrayal for his children.
Jean-Loup Dabadie's children in shock
“We were in the middle of covid. The traditional scene of opening the will at a notary, we did not experience it because we received the holographic will, in its pretty handwriting, one evening on our computer screens“, Clémentine Dabadie-Fombonne recently remembered on the set of It starts today. “It was extremely violent because our father did not speak to us. We were not even mentioned, cited in this will where he protected our mother-in-law and where he gave her the usufruct of all his property.“
If Clementine admits that he is “completely normal for a husband to protect his wife“, she nevertheless believes that this in no way justifies disloyalty towards her children. According to her, the terms of the will were “glacial“and in total contradiction with the relationship”accomplice” which she shared with her father for a long time.
-A complaint filed
“As in all stories of successions that go wrong, these are stories of betrayed love. When we hit a will like that in the face, we say to ourselves: 'But did he love us?' It's a shock. He disinherited us. We have three quarters of bare ownership, but my mother-in-law has the usufruct of all her property.“, she explained with emotion.
It is therefore only upon the death of their mother-in-law that the children of Jean-Loup Dabadie will come into possession of their inheritance, unless the courts, which Clémentine has seized for theft, breach of trust and receiving stolen property, take another decision. To be continued…
