Every summer, Laetitia Hallyday goes to Saint-Barthélémy to pay homage to Johnny Hallyday at the Lorient cemetery. When he died in 2017 from cancer, the million-selling rocker was buried on the famous Caribbean island, his vacation spot with his widow. Before marrying the mother of his two youngest daughters Jade and Joy, whose life he shared for more than 20 years, the interpreter ofLight the fire lived several stories that hit the headlines and helped shape its sex, drugs and rock’n’roll image. As Current wife details it in his slideshow here, his first marriage dates from April 1965, with his first wife Sylvie Vartan. From their star couple of the yéyé years was born David Hallydaywho also became a singer. The excesses, the repeated separations and the infidelities of the Taulier got the better of their passionate history. Their divorce was signed in 1980. “We were extremely close, extremely alike so we thought it was forever,” had recognized the singer in an interview with Claire Chazal for her show Passage of the artsMay 31, 2021.
His 20 years of love with Laeticia Hallyday, his last wife
After the end of his story of 15 years with Sylvie Vartan, Johnny Hallyday tied an express marriage with Elisabeth Étienne, known as Babeth, in 1981 in Beverly Hills. An ephemeral union that ended in separation a few weeks later. Always marked by his divorce with the mother of his son David Hallyday, the interpreter of Penitentiary crossed the road to Nathalie Bayeon the set of a TV show in 1982. A three-year romance that gave rise to the birth of Laura Smet, although the couple of parents were never married. In July 1999 in Ramatuelle, Johnny Hallyday married his third wife, Adeline Blondieau (19 years old and he is 47), actress-star of Under the sun from whom he divorced in 1992… to finally pass the ring on his finger in 1994 in Las Vegas. A union that finally ended definitively in 1995. It was on this date that the unfaithful and fickle rocker met Laeticia Hallyday32 years her junior, in a nightclub in Miami. Married in Neuilly-sur-Seine a year later, they welcomed two daughters of Vietnamese origin, Jade and Joy. These 21 years of marriage, interrupted by the death of Johnny in 2017, marked the longest love story that Johnny Hallyday lived during his life.