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Orlando was the guest of Vivement Dimanche, he confirmed that the rumor that his sister Dalida had a relationship with François Mitterrand was real.
“As much as it is 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,” declared producer Orlando , brother of Dalida on the set of Michel Drucker's show, Vivement Dimanche, this weekend.
He thus confirmed that the singer had indeed lived a romance with the former president of the Socialist Republic François Mitterrand. Their history dates back to the time when the latter was still president of the PS, well before he was elected to the Élysée.
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But this would have lasted several years. Thus, having become president, François Mitterrand would have continued to frequent Dalida, ringing her house “at any time”, according to Orlando, who never forgave the absence of the former president at his sister's funeral, in 1987 . “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 hadn't. never committed…”, he lamented on the France 3 set.
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