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Jean-Marie Le Pen died this Tuesday, January 7, at the age of 96, his family announced to AFP. For more than thirty years, the sultry politician was married to Jany Paschos. But how did the couple actually meet?
The French political community is losing one of its figures. This Tuesday, January 7, Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96, his family announced to AFP. Known for his political career, the former honorary president of the National Front also had a busy romantic life. After being married for the first time to Pierrette Lalanne, the mother of his three daughters, the politician married his second wife Jany Paschos. On January 16, 2021, the couple were religiously married, during a ceremony celebrated by Father Philippe Laguérie. But then, how did Jean-Marie Le Pen and his second wife meet?
Their love story was made possible thanks to one of their mutual friends, in the spring of 1985, told the second wife of the politician in an album to the glory of Jean-Marie Le Pen and included in the book Political sex by Christophe Deloire and Christophe Dubois. “A friend called me and said ‘You who are so good at throwing parties, couldn’t you invite one of my friends?’”he then asked her. Before specifying: “He is divorced and although he lives with his three daughters, he feels a little alone… “, can we read in this extract. A solitude with which Marine Le Pen’s father finally broke following his meeting with Jany Paschos. If they lived their romance out of sight for a while, Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jany ended up taking it into the open. His divorce from Pierrette Lalanne being officially pronounced in 1987, the former deputy was finally able to take a new step with the chosen one of his heart. On May 31, 1991, Jean-Marie Le Pen married Jany Paschos in a civil ceremony, in Rueil-Malmaison.
Jany Le Pen: what does she really think of her daughter-in-law Marine?
It was in 1991 that Jany Le Pen officially entered the Le Pen family by marrying Jean-Marie. The wife of the former honorary president of the National Front is still close to her husband, but less to her daughters-in-law and in particular to Marine Le Pen. However, there was a time when they were accomplices. Jany Le Pen quickly felt close to these young women, aged 17, 21 and 23 when she met them. “Honestly, we had a lot of fun”she confessed to Paris Match in 2015.
She was even one of Marine Le Pen’s confidants. “I remember one summer, at La Trinité, when Marine came to sit on the edge of my bathtub. She had heartbreak”she says, before adding: “I did my best to comfort her, it was a sweet moment…” Then everything changed. When relations between Marine Le Pen and her father begin to deteriorate, Jany is stunned to see her daughter-in-law completely change: “She burns what she loved. Right now, it’s her father… She’s brutal, contemptuous.” In 2015, Marine Le Pen excluded her father from the party. Jany, for her part, tries to fix the relationship between father and daughter. But nothing works. One summer day in 2015, she sent him a text message: “If you saw your father, you would be upset.” The response from the former president of the National Rally was not long in coming: “An insulting SMS, of crazy violence, with a foul tone. This hatred! She has scores to settle with her father, to whom she owes everything.” Three years later, for her father’s 90th birthday, Louis Aliot’s ex-partner puts water in her wine and agrees to celebrate this birthday with the family.
