Bambou – real name Caroline Paulus – was Serge Gainsbourg's companion from 1980 until his death in 1991. When she met the French artist in a Parisian nightclub, she was 19 and he was 50. “It was the meeting of my life, the Jean Valjean that I was waiting for. We saved each other,” she says in the columns of “Parisien” this Tuesday, November 5.
Her autobiography, Bambou, dedicates it to the singer, with whom she welcomed a son, Lulu Gainsbourg, in 1986: “I thank him for everything he gave me. Trust. Someone who trusted me to the point of giving me a child, that’s huge,” she explains in the interview. Despite their ten years of living together, the couple never married and the model therefore received nothing after the singer's death: “I have neither moral rights nor right of inspection. It is Serge’s four children who share it. I didn't get anything after his death but I didn't ask for anything. »
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Bambou has remained away from the media, appearing very little for around ten years. After the singer's death on March 2, 1991, she did not find love again: “I tried, I made a few attempts, but I knew it wouldn't work and it didn't work. It’s difficult to come after Serge,” she concludes.
Bambou, his “very strong relationship” with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Bambou meets Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of his partner with Jane Birkin, when the young girl is only nine years old: “I was twelve years older. She was my little sister. I lived with her the childhood that I did not have,” declares the former model. “I taught him everything I knew, to knit, to embroider, to cook. And then she did it better than me. We both have a very strong relationship. »
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Jane Birkin’s daughter herself mentioned this link in an interview for “Trois Couleurs” in 2021: “Bambou was incredible with me, as a child. She took care of me like a big sister,” she said at the time.
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