It’s a song that viewers heard throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. During most of the events organized in the capital, spectators were able to sing the famous song In Emilie’s eyes by Joe Dassin, proof that the singer, who left us at only 41, remains very popular with the French. A singer who left his mark on an entire generation and who collapsed in front of his young children during a tragic lunch on August 20, 1980, when the two boys, Jonathan and Julien, were only 5 and 18 months old.
Joe Dassin’s children therefore did not have the opportunity to really know their father, but his son Jonathan inherited his father’s love for music by becoming a recognized artist. Guest of the show At Jordan’s on C8 this Thursday, October 31, the 46-year-old singer agreed to confide in his father. When the host asks him if you become a millionaire thanks to the inheritance of a father as illustrious as his, he prefers to respond with humor. “We are billionaires even”he retorts in a joking tone, before becoming serious again: “Then there are very technical questions. My father was not the songwriter of all his songs, which pays off a lot. A songwriter works very well in life… That said, we win, my brother and I our life in a completely honest way.”
Nearly a million euros each for his brother and him
Faced with the hesitations of his guest, Jordan de Luxe launches the figure of 10,000 euros per month for the copyrights to his father’s songs. “That’s about it.”replies Jonathan, Joe Dassin’s eldest son who looks exactly like him. A hell of a lot of money that comes in every month and obviously his brother Julien pockets almost the same thing. The host stays on the subject of money, but then mentions the artist’s estate upon his death and when he speaks of 2 to 3 million euros, the singer’s son assures that it was about less money at the time. “Not far. Well, when we sold the house”he assures the host who then talks abouta million euros for his brother and him. “We were each able to buy a house and an apartment”he adds.
Particularly transparent, Jonathan Dassin did not hesitate to confide in the money that brings him his father’s inheritance.
