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This Tuesday, January 7, Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96. Before meeting his last wife Jany, the politician shared Pierrette’s life for 25 years. But why had he separated from his first wife?
Jean-Marie Le Pen took his last breath this Tuesday, January 7, at the age of 96. Sad news announced by his family to AFP. The politician leaves behind his daughter, Marine Le Pen, his granddaughter Marion Maréchal, but also his wife, Jany, and his first wife Pierrette Lalanne. The founder of the National Front was married for 25 years to the mother of the president of the National Rally. While the couple was having happy days, Pierrette Lalanne left the politician overnight, on October 10, 1984, to go live with the latter’s biographer, the journalist Jean Marcilly.
A departure that Jean-Marie Le Pen experienced as a real betrayal and which destroyed their family life. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, not even my worst enemy”entrusted Marion Maréchal’s grandfather at the time to Point. While Pierrette Lalanne is rebuilding her life, her three children, Marine, Marie-Caroline and Yann, turn their backs on her for many years. Today, Jordan Bardella’s sidekick maintains a close relationship with his mother.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen: the day his ex-wife Pierrette caused a scandal by posing for Playboy
The divorce of Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierrette Lalanne is far from being a long, quiet river. As soon as they separated, the ex-couple engaged in a merciless media war. The founder of the National Front says that his ex-wife is being manipulated or that he cut her off. On June 10, 1987, Marine Le Pen’s mother decided to take revenge by posing as a sexy maid, with a plunging neckline in Playboy . The politician will make this affront a personal and political matter.“When I saw that these photos were sold, giving a derisory and grotesque image of a French woman attached to a leading politician… When I saw that these photos were sold in England, Australia, America, personally I suffered for my country. Because I told myself that by wanting to reach Le Pen and his ideas, we were reaching our country. And I think that’s how the French understood it”he declared.
