the sulfurous methods of Mimi Marchand, queen of the paparazzi… and confusion – Libération

“He must have a stroller accident…” This December 12, 2020, while texting one of her interlocutors, Mimi Marchand imagines how the latter could physically get rid of one of the stars of the Paris bar, the lawyer William Bourdon, with whom he seems angry. “Blowing it up is not easy”she writes in this message cited in a court document consulted by Liberationbefore predicting the eventual «accident» likely to happen to the lawyer.

This is how the queen of the paparazzi, 77, who was the confidante of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, speaks in private. She still has her way to the Elysée, has exclusive rights to sell photos of the presidential couple, like those of many film and TV stars, and has set up a business model which gives her considerable influence over the powerful and the famous: she keeps their secrets buried, or publishes them, it depends, with hidden photos or false paparazzi (photographs which appear to have been stolen, but in reality negotiated in upstream). However, some of his practices have earned him legal indictments and, at this stage, a referral to the