Dalida and François Mitterrand had an affair, the singer's brother reveals

What had been a rumor for more than forty years has been confirmed: Dalida and François Mitterrand allegedly had an affair. A Monroe-Kennedy-style idyll, French-style, revealed by Orlando, the singer's brother.

The rumor is no longer circulating. Dalida did indeed maintain a relationship with François Mitterrand, who governed France for fourteen years. An idyll made official by the singer's brother with a beguiling smile, after years of letting rumors run rampant.

“Yes, there was something”

It was Orlando, Dalida's brother, who confessed. Guest of Michel Drucker in “Vivement Dimanche!”, the singer's producer revealed that the latter had indeed maintained a relationship with François Mitterrand, the two protagonists having never made anything official during their lifetime. “Yes, there was something,” Orlando said on the red sofa, a revelation that contrasts with those comments last year. “She always considered Mitterrand as a friend, he never stopped seducing her,” he repeated in the media. The diva's younger brother obviously felt that the time had come to clear up the confusion.

“It might as well be me who lived it who says it, rather than the famous biographers who invent, who write everything even though they know nothing and want to rewrite Dalida's life in their own way,” added the producer.

The secret services feared Mitterrand's nocturnal visits

Following his election to the presidency, to discreetly visit the woman who was his mistress, the head of state showed “all the nerve”, according to Orlando. “It would ring at any time. The secret services who were with him were losing their minds,” adds the producer, confirming the comments he had made two years previously: “He came without a bodyguard, he crossed the street which was very small, tight, he didn’t there was no light at all. The secret service once said, 'He's going to get murdered.' And it was for fear of an attack in a dark alley that one morning, at dawn, Dalida was awakened by the noise of construction in her street, surprised by the installation of a row of street lamps.

An idyll like a parenthesis in the tragic sentimental life of the interpreter of the legendary “He had just turned 18”, marked by the suicide of the three men who had shared his life. But the absence of François Mitterrand at Dalida's funeral left a bitter taste in Orlando. “I resented him and I will always resent him given the friendship they had, seeing how Dalida risked her career and her friends to commit to him, she who had never engaged…”, he lamented.