EShe had loved him before he became “Bébel”. Élodie Constantin, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s first wife and mother of his first three children, has died at the age of 90.
His son Paul, the actor’s most famous descendant, announced the news on social media this Friday, September 13. In a very sober post on Instagram, the former racing driver shared a photo of himself as a baby in his mother’s arms, accompanied by this laconic message: “I love you mom, rest in peace.”
According to our colleagues at Paris Matchit was a stroke that occurred “a few weeks ago” that took away Élodie Constantin. She was 90 years old.
Three children and a divorce
When she met Jean-Paul Belmondo in 1953, Élodie Constantin was a dancer and called herself “Renée Constant”. She married the actor in Paris in 1959 when he, aged 26, had not yet been revealed by Out of breath by Jean-Luc Godard, which he would shoot the following year.
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Patricia in 1953, Florence in 1960 and Paul in 1963 were the three children of the couple, who separated in 1965 when Jean-Paul Belmondo met the actress Ursula Andress. Élodie Constantin and Bébel finally divorced in 1968.
Subsequently, the first wife of the star of the Gorgeous, Fear in the city or even Professional crosses the Channel with his children to settle in England.
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