The stench of discord will permeate the court of Versailles on Monday. Stéphane Guerlain, the son of the famous perfumer, was called by his father’s companion, now 85 years old. She accuses him of harassment and death threats.
“My client is absolutely terrified,” Frédéric Belleau, a lawyer for Jean-Paul Guerlain’s companion, assures me.
deteriorating condition
Kristina Craig Michelsen met Jean-Paul Guerlain in 2007 during a social evening. The perfumer, whose reputation spreads as a “ladies’ man,” falls under the spell of the French-Danish. Soon the latter moved with him to the family estate, Domaine de Mesnuls, in Yvelines.
Fifteen years later, the time for the honey streak is over. Meanwhile, the situation in the Guerlain clan deteriorated. As soon as she moved into the family property, Christina Craig Michelsen, who shared Attar’s passion for horses, expressed her desire to marry Jean-Paul Guerlain. The son is categorically opposed to it.
In 2010, The Nose experienced a tortured period during which he was accused of hurling racial insults by declaring that he had worked as a “negro” to obtain one of his perfumes, Samsara. He will be found guilty and fined €6,000 in 2012.
A few months later, Christina Craig Michaelsen went to a gallery owner to try and sell him a painting by Eugène Delacroix. In this small environment where everyone knows each other, an art dealer learns of Jean-Paul Guerlain’s estate and warns his son.
Annulled marriage record
Then Stéphane Guerlain fears that his father’s new companion is trying to get hold of the family’s legacy. In 2013, Stephane Guerlain submitted a request to strengthen supervision, especially since the health of his father, who was 76 years old, was deteriorating. The man has Alzheimer’s disease. He became his legal guardian in January 2018, thus taking possession of the family’s property.
The legal battle is just beginning. Eight times, Kristina Craig Michaelsen will try to change the guardianship of her companion. You will also submit a marriage record. This file will be overturned by the Versailles court, the decision confirmed on appeal. The public will leave little doubt about Attar’s health, with the latter answering “I want to get married” whatever the question is asked.
Kristina Craig Michelsen is accused of making life difficult for all the domestic servants, who leave the house one by one, in order to depose Jean-Paul Guerlain. Stéphane Guerlain was criticized for no longer maintaining the estate. He paid the couple 120 euros a month to live, “including medical expenses,” recalls the companion’s lawyer.
“In winter, there is no heating, Mr. Guerlain spent the whole period with a blanket on his knees and an oil-bath heater beside him, sorry for Mr. Bello. The refrigerator remains empty, and there is mold in all the rooms, the gutters are not maintained, but there are trees growing in some rooms.” …lack of need.”
Many legal procedures
In this context, Kristina Craig Michaelsen is “constantly threatened and harassed”. “She should be ridiculed, threatened, and insulted,” the lawyer continues, referring to the “severe depression” in which this 63-year-old woman finds herself. The guardrail will multiply in the gendarmerie. She stayed by Jean-Paul Guerlain “to protect him,” as his lawyer asserts.
Today, direct quotes come to court. Stéphane Guerlain was due to stand trial last January on charges of insults and death threats. But the judge decided to join another measure of “voluntary violence” and rule on all the facts on Monday. Stephane Guerlain’s lawyers denounced them as “cruelty,” a form of extortion on the part of Christina Craig Michelsen to obtain marriage.
“It is judicial harassment, for trying to tarnish the image of the guardian,” denounced in January on the France Info website, the lawyer of Attar’s son, Mai Olivier Combe, “because she broke her teeth at marriage.”
The legal battle is far from over, even after the Versailles court which will put its decision under counsel. Last December, Kristina Craig Michaelsen filed a complaint for “attempted murder” alleging that her boyfriend’s son tried to run her over with his car. Facts reclassified as “aggravated violence”.
For her part, the woman was released last October from the facts of “abandonment, abandonment, endangerment and lack of interest in a vulnerable person.” The court found that she had already deprived her husband of custody, but this did not legally constitute an offense of abandonment.
Original article published on BFMTV.com