A tourist success in Paris, Maison Gainsbourg is nevertheless in the red. “Le Parisien” returns to this affair and explains in detail why such a visited place is very in debt.
Maison Gainsbourg: 4 million turnover and yet in cessation of payments, we explain why
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The project has been a hit since its opening exactly a year ago with more than 100,000 visitors – it is sold out until the end of the year – and yet, it is in the red. The home of the deceased Serge Gainsbourg, located rue de Verneuil in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, was placed in receivership for “cessation of payments” as revealed The Informed. The Parisian now adds its information on this cultural establishment and explains why the place, which made 4 million euros in turnover in its first year of operation, is in debt.
Let us be clear, the Gainsbourg house is not in danger and Lorraine Dauchez, president of Arteum, the company mandated to operate the site, assures us: “It’s a great success and there’s no doubt, we’re going to stay open.“So where do these debts come from? Their source”an initial investment sum which is the subject of legal proceedings between Charlotte Gainsbourg and her partner, Dominique Dutreix, ordered by the commercial court to repay 1.5 million euros”reminds The Parisian.
Businessman Dominique Dutreix, real estate developer and manager of dozens of companies in this sector, “has equal shares with Charlotte Gainsbourg in the management of Maison Gainsbourg, the museum located a few meters away and the bar-restaurant called Gainsbarre”. Except that according to the daughter of the modern poet, her investor did not keep his promises of equity financing and would have “even served directly in the cash register, which caused the delay in opening“, according to a source close to the file to the newspaper.
Shortcomings which prevented suppliers and construction companies from being paid on time, “thus generating a delay of eighteen months in the opening of the place and a debt of around 1.65 million euros“. Added to this are the bank loans of around 3.5 million euros which also remain to be repaid. Hence the receivership to spread the repayments over around ten years. It is Charlotte Gainsbourg herself. even who requested that a judicial administrator be appointed last June. For her, he received all the bank alerts, without ever speaking to his partner.
Furthermore, the commercial court also sentenced Dominique Dutreix, already sentenced in the ELF affair, to rboost the coffers of the venue management company to the tune of 1.5 million euros. The Gainsbourg house, so worked and dreamed of by Charlotte Gainsbourg, has a very bitter taste…
