It is a legal battle that has only just started. May 20, 2020 Jean-Loup Dabadie, French author, writer, screenwriter and composer, died at the age of eighty-one at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Nicolas Bedos' great friend left behind a wife, Véronique Bachet-Dabadie, but also three children, Clémentine, Clément and Florent. However, after having begun a painful work of mourning, the Dabadie family is now attacking the writer's legacy. And on that subject … the tea towel burns. As she revealed at World March 9, 2021, Clementine Dabadie-Fombonne filed a complaint against his mother-in-law for "theft", "concealment" and "breach of trust". Asked about it on Europe 1, the writer's daughter demands an explanation.
"1.9 million euros is a lot but for my father … millions are missing"
"It's very difficult to mourn my father without having an item from him. There are paintings that we remember perfectly, my brothers and I, which have disappeared ", she confided on the radio station. And for good reason, Clémentine Dabadie-Fombonne accuses her mother-in-law of having stolen valuables from her father. Charges that the wife Dabadie formally denies. "What we find on bank accounts, 1.9 million euros, that's a lot of money for a lot of people. But for what my father has earned all his life, millions are missing. Where are they ?", she declared on Europe 1.
If the three children of Jean-Loup Dabadie did not receive any share of the comedian's inheritance, they will however have to pay the inheritance costs: "We father gives Véronique 100% of the usufruct of her economic rights of author, her life. (…) We children, do not touch anything as is, but we have to pay the estate fees. It's absurd", deplored Clémentine Dabadie-Fombonne. In the columns of Paris Match, the latter confided that she had contacted Véronique Bachet-Dabadie to find common ground. Unfortunately, she refused.
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