Charlene and Albert of Monaco: this request for a paternity test that upsets their couple
Charlene’s health problems have not been the only source of annoyance for Albert II of Monaco in recent months. For more than a year, arguing that he is the father of her daughter born in 2005, a Brazilian woman has taken legal action to submit to a paternity test. The magazine City Country goes into detail on the case …
It is the other affair, less publicized, which on the contrary the palate. While Charlene de Monaco’s last operation, planned for October 8, took place “very well” unrolled and that a return of the princess to the principality is declared imminent, despite remaining questions, the English magazine City Country takes a look at what has upset her couple so much in recent months: the request of a Brazilian woman so that Albert II recognize a child supposedly born of an affair, in 2005.
In France, this lawsuit has received little comment. Thierry Lacoste, lawyer for the Monegasque sovereign, closed the debate with these words addressed to Point, in October 2020: “This case is a tartuferie and a real humbug. It is not based on anything except ranting. In the details given by the mother of this girl, in particular on a so-called shared trip, neither the dates nor the facts correspond. There are no intimate photos, no tangible facts surrounding a possible relationship. “ Last September, in a dizzying interview with Paris Match, Nicole Coste, mother of Alexandre, eldest son of Albert II recognized late, has also denied the veracity of this story, “umpteenth scandal to do harm.”
The case, evoking the late recognition of Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste but also of Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, eldest daughter of the prince, is nevertheless far from being, as recalled City Country. Not only did Albert II of Monaco not ignore the legal action for recognition of paternity, but his lawyer Thierry Lacoste decided to counterattack with a criminal complaint “for attempted fraud and blackmail”. The sovereign’s council always reminded the Point, from autumn 2020: “When we were first contacted about this matter, we were given to understand that either we were negotiating or the story would be made public. I call it blackmail.”
Albert of Monaco would not have given any more news after learning that he had become a father
A hearing, initially set in February 2021, has been postponed to a later date. Erich Grimaldi, the injury lawyer unrelated to the Grimaldi family, argues with City Country than the diplomatic immunity brandished by Albert II complicated the procedure which Charlene of Monaco knows nothing about. By our colleagues from City Country, Thierry Lacoste assures him that the query appears mostly as “totally unfounded” for Italian courts where the case was brought.
What exactly is wrong “Mariza S.”, as it was called in The telegraph and Bunté, to the Monegasque sovereign? This Brazilian thirty-something living in Italy claims to have met Albert in a nightclub in Rio, in 2004. At the time, she would not have recognized the prince and would have taken him for a Canadian diplomat. After their meeting, they would have traveled together for two weeks, from Rio to Milan, via Lisbon and even Moscow where they would be interviewed with Vladimir Putin. Assertions strongly denied by the camp of Albert II.
Back to Brazil, “Mariza S.” would have given birth to a girl “Celia”, nine months later. Already in a relationship with Charlene, the prince would then have stopped responding to messages from “Mariza S.”. She would only have discovered her true identity by leafing through an Italian magazine, and, faced with her silence, would have decided to ask her for the recognition of their supposed child, as well as alimony … via the instagram account of the principality. Without answer, “Celia”, aged 15, ended up addressing the sovereign in a letter made public, in September 2020.
The words of “Mariza S.” contradicted by an intimate of Albert claiming to know his way of proceeding with women
Erich Grimaldi, the lawyer of “Mariza S.”, says she just wants Albert II to undergo a paternity test. A third party cited by City Country rather agrees with Thierry Lacoste: the private detective Robert Eringer, who met Albert in the 1990s. Recruited in 2005 to cleanse the principality of its most sulphurous residents, but broke with the sovereign for money matters in 2007, Robert Eringer denies the hypothesis of a masked advancing seducer: “That was not Albert’s way of operating. He used his status as a prince instead to seduce women. In 2005, Albert was already approaching fifty, he was almost bald, was overweight and was no longer really attractive. It was his princely status that appealed to women, certainly not his physical appearance. ” The interested party will appreciate the comment. But this testimony casts a serious discredit on the statements of “Mariza S.”.
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