The most famous jack-of-all-trades in show business continues to maintain some mystery, particularly about her gender… but also about her age? Amanda Lear confessed.
This December 2, TF1 broadcasts in the second part of the evening – after Cat’s Eyes – the series Escort Boysseason 1. Among the guests luxury, we find in particular Amanda Lear. She plays a client offering the services of a very attractive but somewhat clumsy young man… In real life, she claims to have “closed the store“. Too old for love? But how old is Amanda really?
The mystery finally solved about Amanda Lear's age!
Since her debut in show business, Amanda Lear has given all the dates and places of birth, building her legend and her mysterious persona. One day born in Saigon, another in Hong Kong or even in Hanoi… And in what year? The 30s, 40s or 50s? “Well, all women lie about their age, but Arielle Dombasle and I are fascinated. You know we're the only two, they didn't want us in Who's Who [une sorte de bottin mondain, ndlr]. They said we gave false dates of birth“, she confided on the set of Daily.
And yet! As reported by journalist Eric Dahan, who profiled Amanda Lear for the newspaper Liberation in 2010, she wanted to put an end to the rumors by presenting him with her identity card. An appointment is made with the journalist in a Parisian restaurant, for the interview, and the latter tells him that he must do his work and mention his date of birth.
“She said to me: 'No problem, we just have to tell the truth!' And there, she opens her handbag, she takes out a French national identity card and brings it down on the table like a royal flush. And there I read: 'Amanda Lear, born in 1950, in Saigon“, he confided in the documentary Amanda Lear – Call Me Missbroadcast on Arte this December 1. Amanda Lear would have been born on November 18 according to several other period documents: she would therefore be 74 years old today.
False dates of birth and problems with the administration
Amanda Lear, whose real birth name is Amanda Tapp – as indicated on the website of the Ministry of Culture, which had knighted her in the Order of Arts and Letters – changed her date of birth so much that she played tricks…
The star of the play Old woman's money – who has denied in the past being born a man under the name of Alain Tapp; the Arte documentary evoking a possible operation in Morocco – declared on the set of C to youregarding his date of birth: “I change it all the time. I have a problem with the pension fund. Because they tell me 'yes but we have three files'. So they owe me a lot of money, they don't want to give it to me. They don't have the right dates.”
