On the set of TPMP People, Saturday April 15, 2023, Pierre-Jean Chalençon returned to his platonic love affair with Charles Trenet, which lasted ten years. The former buyer of Deal concluded explained why he had, however, nothing inherited from the famous singer.
For ten years, from the early 1990s until the death of Charles Trenet, the singer and Pierre-Jean Chalençon spent a lot of time together. “I was with Jean-Jacques Debout – I was very close to Jean-Jacques and Chantal [Goya, ndlr], I lived with them for a while – and one evening, he said to me: ‘tomorrow we are going to see Charles Trenet.’ I said to him: ‘But Charles Trenet, he is dead.’ ‘No, he’s not dead, and you’re going to see him tomorrow night’“, thus told the former buyer ofDeal doneSaturday April 15, 2023, on the set of TPMP Peopleto evoke his meeting with the artist. Immediately between them is the “thunderbolt“. They will live for many years a platonic love story. The history buff was present with the artist when he breathed his last in the hospital.
Even though they seemed to be very close, Pierre-Jean Chalençon got nothing from the legacy of Charles Trenet. It was Georges El Assidi, his secretary, driver and confidant who inherited his works, properties and copyrights estimated at 500,000 euros. “Charles had a fight with his driver – well George was more than his driver, he was his secretary – and George wanted to leave. Charles Trenet said to me: ‘Listen, you are going to replace me.’ I replied: ‘I am your friend, I would never work for you.’ I patched it up with George, and it went like this“, he thus explained on the set of the program broadcast on C8.
For Pierre-Jean Chalençon, Charles Trenet “was defrauded”
“If I had that intellectual dishonesty, I could have been the driver“, he continued, implying that he could thus have become the heir of Charles Trénet. “I didn’t do it, I don’t regret it“If he was able to recover some objects having belonged to the artist, he believes that his friend was ripped off.”Charles thought that after his death his heir George would take care of his friends, which unfortunately was not the case. The poor boy was cheated“, he said again.