Three billion old francs. This was how we talked about money 50 years ago and it represents a tidy sum: around 20 million of our current euros. A jackpot hit by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1976, almost falling from the sky, which was bequeathed to him by Hubert Lambert, a rich industrialist campaigning for the extreme right. An inheritance once contested in court by the family of the deceased, which will make the president of the National Front (FN) rich and propel him into financial ease which will be a thousand miles from his childhood in La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan) and the “dirt” floor of the house where he grew up. And which will allow him – after an attack on his home undoubtedly linked to this jackpot – to devote himself full time, and without constraint, to his political career.
The symbol of this opulence will be the Montretout manor, one of the prestigious residences of the eponymous estate, a vast private estate built under the Second Empire nestled on the heights of Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), offering a spectacular view of Paris. This is where Jean-Marie Le Pen lived and received guests and journalists for several decades, before returning to Rueil-Malmaison in the last years of his life and until his death on Tuesday. Montretout, today, is inhabited by his ex-wife and mother of his daughters, Pierrette. The ”Menhir” had only retained offices there.
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A fortune of several million euros
Readily described as stingy – “a penny is a penny”, he said to defend himself – Jean-Marie Le Pen seemed to want to find sources of money wherever they could be found, including for his party. As recently as last fall, the Paris criminal court was looking into suspicions of embezzlement of public money through the hiring of European parliamentary assistants working for the sole benefit of the FN. One of them was his own bodyguard. A system that he would have designed, according to prosecutors in their requisitions, before bequeathing it to Marine Le Pen, who would have made it a financial “war machine” – but who contests all these accusations. She will hear the judgment in this case on March 31. His father, who was to appear alongside him but whose case was separated due to his state of health, was never tried for his actions. Public action against him ended with his death.
According to The Parisianthe patriarch of the French far right leaves behind a financial legacy made up of “several real estate and financial investments”. The total amount of this fortune amounts to several million euros.
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