“It was immediate”: Sylvie Vartan recounts her meeting with Tony Scotti, her husband of 40 years

Invited on the 8:30 p.m. set, this Sunday, January 12, 2025, on the occasion of her farewell tour which is coming to an end, Sylvie Vartan spoke soberly about her very discreet relationship with Tony Scotti, her husband of 40 years.

The end of an era. One of the most popular singers in the history of French variety is about to bow out. There are only three performances left for the woman who announced her musical retirement by organizing a farewell tour before leaving the stage forever, and her audience. Invited on the set of 8:30 p.m., Sunday this January 12, 2025 on France 2, Sylvie Vartan wanted to thank her audience, who were “his second family” and who has it “saved from many things” in more than 60 years of career. The end of a career which will allow the singer of Bulgarian origin to devote the last years of her life to her family, who did not hesitate to support her during her last concerts, and to grow old alongside her family. who has shared his life for many years.

Facing Eric Dupont-Moretti and Laurent Delahousse, the interpreter of The Maritza also spoke about his love life. Because if her highly publicized relationship with the Taulier is a landmark, Sylvie Vartan has been weaving a much more discreet love for forty years with Tony Scotti, an actor and music producer whom she married in 1984. The one who grows old alongside her lover never misses an opportunity to speak to him a few tender words and remind him of her feelings: “We met at an age where we were meant to meet the way we love each other now,” she begins on the set of the second channel. “He was someone brilliant that I didn't know, that I should have met several times. Our paths crossed several times without ever meeting, and then it happened at the end of the world, and that immediate summer”, confides the one who recently celebrated her loved one's birthday.

Sylvie Vartan's words of support for the victims of the Los Angeles fires

Married for forty years to an American, Sylvie Vartan has a very close history with the city of Angels, in which she has taken up residence on several occasions, and which she learned to love during her love stories, with Johnny Hallyday first, then with Tony Scotti. Facing Laurent Delahousse, the yéyés icon tried to say a few words about the fires that have ravaged the city since January 7, and to send his support to the victims, despite his emotion: “These are images of the apocalypse that cause me a lot of pain, I have many friends who have lost everything,” she began. And to add: “It’s something unthinkable, how in the space of a few hours, a life is turned upside down until it is destroyed. Words fail me and I am haunted by the images I see.” Sylvie Vartan was very personally affected by the disaster since none other than Laeticia Hallyday saw her family home in the Pacific Palisades district go up in smoke.