While the Duhamel affair continues to make the headlines, some commentators do not hesitate to draw the parallel with Claude François. The singer, obsessed with young girls, almost saw his career destroyed in the 1970s. The reason? He created a scandal by photographing young girls, sometimes minors, for his charming magazine, Absolu.
Since the publication of Camille Kouchner’s book, The Big Family – in which the lawyer and daughter of Bernard Kouchner accuses the political scientist Olivier Duhamel of having raped his twin brother – the victims of sexual abuse and incest once again find the strength to speak out. Of words that highlight the actions of certain people, like those of Claude François. The singer, whose unhealthy obsession with young girls is now known, is now in the crosshairs of some commentators.
“I love them until 17-18 years old, after I start to be suspicious. God only knows if I have any adventures beyond 18. After 18 I am wary, the girls start to think, they are more natural “, confided the interpreter ofAlexandria Alexandra in an interview repeated by Star TV. Obsessed by teenage girls, Claude François did not seem to hesitate to cross all the barriers of legality and morality to satisfy certain desires. In 2018, a documentary broadcast on W9, Claude François, the last secrets, came back on a scandal which had almost splashed the singer. Him, whose mother of his hidden daughter was herself only 13 years old when they met.
Claude François photographed naked girls, sometimes minors
In 1974, Claude François, already owner of the review Podium, decides to expand its catalog by buying Absolute, an erotic magazine for which he starts taking erotic pictures under the pseudonym of François Dumoulin. However, very quickly, his pictures caused a scandal. The cause ? They feature naked girls, sometimes minors. Quickly, the Ministry of the Interior seized on the problem and considered banning the magazine.
In the center of the collimator, Claude François does everything to save his skin, even if it means playing with his address book to avoid legal proceedings. he then calls Anne-Aymone Giscard d’Estaing, the First Lady of the time, so that she intervenes with her husband. The latter convinces her husband to protect the singer, to prevent this scandal from ending his career. The case will be hushed up. And Claude François ended up reselling his charming magazine in 1976. A situation today unthinkable.
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