Jean-Marie Le Pen is now a man married before God. On Saturday January 16, 2021, the co-founder of the Front National religiously married Jany Le Pen, with whom he had already married civilly 30 years ago, in 1991. Jean-Marie Le Pen, 92, and his wife, 88 years old "exchanged their consents according to the rite of the Roman Catholic Church" in front of the traditionalist priest Philippe Laguérie who came to their home in the Hauts-de-Seine thanks to "the authorization of the Bishop of Nanterre" according to information from the Obs. A gesture "romanticism tinged with spirituality", as his close friend and adviser Lorrain de Saint-Affrique pointed out in the magazine, which none of Jean-Marie Le Pen's three daughters was able to attend. Marine, Marie-Caroline and Yann Le Pen are from their father's first marriage to Pierrette Le Pen, née Lalanne, from whom he divorced in 1987. The three sisters were not elsewhere. "not up to date" the marriage of their father and their mother-in-law as specified by the entourage of the youngest Marine Le Pen at theAFP. But who is Jany Le Pen?
Who is Jean-Marie Le Pen's wife?
Jean-Marie Le Pen's second wife came into his life at a difficult time and against a background of scandal. After his divorce, the politician refused to pay alimony to his first wife, who had left him to experience a love affair with his biographer, journalist Jean Marcilly. Very reassured, Jean-Marie Le Pen had declared in the columns of Playboy : "If she needs the money, she just has to clean up." Words that Pierrette had taken at his word by posing in the magazine in maid outfit.
Jean-Marie Le Pen forgot this complicated episode in Jany's arms, whom he married on May 31, 1991, in Rueil-Malmaison. Jany Paschos, born to a Greek father and art dealer and a mother of Dutch origin, was also divorced (from Belgian businessman Jean Garnier) when they met through a common acquaintance in 1985 . "A friend calls me and says, 'You who are so good at throwing parties, couldn't you invite a friend of mine? He is divorced and even though he lives with his three daughters, he feels a little alone '", she says in the book Sexus Politicus (Ed. Albin Michel).
Jany Le Pen has always seen her husband as a good man. In 2015, she also revealed in C to you that her husband felt "a deep tenderness and affection for people", even if it was a person that in his words "everyone dreads or dislikes it". Very concerned about her well-being, she had also tried to reconcile Jean-Marie Le Pen and her daughter Marine, who had been cold for some time, by sending her a message … An initiative that had not been well received by the president of the National Rally who replied with a very salty text message: "I read her response: a text of insults, insane violence, foul tone. This hatred! She has scores to settle with her father to whom she owes everything", then explained Jany Le Pen to Paris Match.
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