This Friday, June 24, Laurent Comtat, the manager of Claude Barzotti, announced the death of the singer at the origin of the tube The Rital at the age of 69 in Belgium. He died of pancreatic cancer that had spread. The artist is “died in his bed, surrounded by his two daughters in a town between Brussels and Charleroi”said the manager to AFP (Agence France Presse).
It is therefore in the family that Claude Barzotti died, at home. At his side, Sarah and Vanessa, his daughters knew how to accompany their father until his last moments. However, in the Barzotti family, relations have not always been good due to the singer’s addiction to alcohol. This addiction dates back to the 1980s. “He was a lively flayed man, a real sensitive, who drank to fight against his stage fright”said his manager.
In 2019, Claude Barzotti and his relatives had been embroiled in a family dispute and had found themselves in court. According to the Belgian newspaper The future, the singer had broken a glass bottle on the head of his daughter, Sarah, during an argument at her home in the presence of her companion. Before the judges, Sarah had won her case. The companion had to undergo training to manage his aggressiveness. Claude Barzotti, meanwhile, had been imposed a psychological follow-up and a ban on the consumption of alcohol.
In addition, in 2019, when Sarah Barzotti was removed from custody of her dogs for abuse, Vanessa, the singer’s other daughter, found herself, despite herself, involved in this story and denounced the harassment campaign on the social networks of which she was a victim. At the head of a clothing store, she had been the victim of a boycott. An event that had a cold between the two sisters according to the Belgian media DH.
“Seven to eight bottles of whiskey a day”
Despite these events, the Barzotti family was able to remain united in the face of the disease. In 2015, at the birth of his granddaughter Assia, daughter of Sarah, Claude Barzotti had decided to put an end to alcohol. He said he didn’t want to be a ” alcoholic grandpa ” the newspaper Morning. The alcohol will have finally got the better of the one who had confided to Paris Match drink up seven to eight bottles of whiskey a day“.
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