Éric Zemmour, the hard-right pundit who has broken into the French presidential race, was facing scandal yesterday with a report that his campaign director, who is 35 years his junior, is expecting his child.
Closer, a celebrity magazine, put Zemmour, 63, and Sarah Knafo, 28, on its cover, with the headline “He is going to be a daddy in 2022”, with the story saying: “The happy event is expected in May 2022, just after the second round of the presidential election.”
Knafo, a senior civil servant who has shaped Zemmour’s bid for the Élysée Palace, was introduced to the public in September when Paris Match published a cover picture of her locked in an embrace with her long-married mentor on a Mediterranean beach.
Zemmour, who is running in second or third place in opinion polls, although he has not formally declared his candidacy, failed to gain a court order to halt publication on privacy grounds.
He attacked Closer on Twitter, saying: “Whatever happens . . . I will jealously and fiercely defend my private life and that of those close to me.” His lawyers said he would “hit Closer through its wallet” with a suit for breach of privacy.
The magazine has made its name with such scoops, among them the revelation in 2014 that François Hollande, then the president, was having an affair with the actress Julie Gayet. Like other French magazines it often pays fines for breaching privacy laws, calculating that the boost in sales makes them worth it.
Benjamin Dargent, Closer’s editor, said it had confirmed with Zemmour’s entourage the truth of reports about the condition of Knafo, who was a teenage fan of the journalist when he had a weekly slot on a popular Saturday night talk show.
The matter was of public interest “because he is well placed in the race . . . he campaigns on family values and appeals to conservative supporters. They may be interested to know there is a gap between the . . . values he preaches and the man he is”, Dargent said.
Zemmour has three adult children with his wife, Mylène Chichportich, 62, a corporate lawyer. His campaign for strict, old-fashioned moral values appeals to older, traditionalist Catholic voters. He opposes gay marriage and believes that women are the natural subordinates of men. He has drawn feminist ire for also suggesting that they are the playthings of politicians.
Moral guardians of the society.
And for god’s sake woman, couldn’t you find a worst man to get pregnant with?
He knew the aide since she was 13… disgusting man
eewwww
Dude is 63 and still reproducing. Guess we’ll see how the child turns out. Could be a nice case study of paternal age effect.
>Zemmour, 63, and Sarah Knafo, 28
Oh fuck he pulled a reverse Macron.
>facing scandal yesterday
Well, I doubt that such blatant Virility would hurt anyone’s political ambitions in France.
Le Boris Johnson method…
Lucky bastard
This is the best advertisement for liberal promiscuity and the opposite of far right moralism as you will find, so thank you Monsieur Zemmour for your service.
Dear Americans, this will not hurt his chances whatsoever. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Least promiscuous French politician
How on earth did she want to fuck Mr. Burns?
Surely this will negatively affect his campaign, his chief aide and confidante will be too busy to work in the middle of the election run up, he’ll have new responsibilities and duties, even if he dosen’t support the child much which is harder considering this is front page news, he’ll have much closer media scrutiny from now and it will damage his image of the morally right guy
It wouldn’t be a real French election without such an issue arising.
Guy looks like a Disney villain.
Does this matter in France? Gives him votes, or loses him votes?
I realize in some countries it would sink his chances, but in France, does it matter?
Shock and horror. French people fuck.
People from the left fuck, people from the right fuck.
All you need is to be elected and bam. All pussy you can shake your dick at.
“Do what i say, not what i do”
Foul cretin.
This guy fucks but still not enough to be the Boris Johnson.
The Mitterrand challenge
Tell me you’re French without telling me you’re French.
the horror
but in ol testa they used to do it mostly when 800 years old
So France’s Mr. Burns drops his sperm to his chief aide? Ehh.
Premium craic.
Conservatives really suffer from cognitive dissonance a lot, don’t they? The more extreme their zealotry, the greater their hypocrisy.
How drunk did he get her in order to fuck him?
Breaking news : Guy had sex
Zemmour is a far right idiot, but this “scandal” is stupid. He has been divorcing with his wife, so there is no moral problem about being with someone else, he isn’t cheating.
Where is the problem ?
Sex outside marriage ? Zemmour dislikes muslims and cries a lot about the end of western virility but he isn’t a religious bigot, this relationship doesn’t really contradict anything he says he stands for.
Sex with someone younger ? There should be a problem with Macron too then. And thanks god we are no longer bigots shocked by this nowadays, they are adults they do what they want with the private parts.
This is trash news from a trash gossip magazine, it is only voyeurism and an attack on private life in order to make money, but of course they have the audacity to claim it was the moral thing to do to publish it.
Oh God… Girl, you can do so much better than this vampire Gargamel
Fair play. Good to have leader with proved fecundity like Boris.
/s
Is this a positive or a smear for his campaign?
It really is hard to know anymore.
lmaoooooooooooooo unreal EVERY TIME THE SAME FAR RIGHT GETTING THE LOVER PREGNANT CANNOT BELIEVE ITTTTT
French here.
Literally no one cares, wether people like him or not.
Private life is supposed to be private.
I prefer to judge the man on his program for the country.
And I don’t like him at all, he’s a populist pundit racist cunt.
But I truly don’t care where he wet his noodle, and none of the people I know care either.
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Éric Zemmour, the hard-right pundit who has broken into the French presidential race, was facing scandal yesterday with a report that his campaign director, who is 35 years his junior, is expecting his child.
Closer, a celebrity magazine, put Zemmour, 63, and Sarah Knafo, 28, on its cover, with the headline “He is going to be a daddy in 2022”, with the story saying: “The happy event is expected in May 2022, just after the second round of the presidential election.”
Knafo, a senior civil servant who has shaped Zemmour’s bid for the Élysée Palace, was introduced to the public in September when Paris Match published a cover picture of her locked in an embrace with her long-married mentor on a Mediterranean beach.
Zemmour, who is running in second or third place in opinion polls, although he has not formally declared his candidacy, failed to gain a court order to halt publication on privacy grounds.
He attacked Closer on Twitter, saying: “Whatever happens . . . I will jealously and fiercely defend my private life and that of those close to me.” His lawyers said he would “hit Closer through its wallet” with a suit for breach of privacy.
The magazine has made its name with such scoops, among them the revelation in 2014 that François Hollande, then the president, was having an affair with the actress Julie Gayet. Like other French magazines it often pays fines for breaching privacy laws, calculating that the boost in sales makes them worth it.
Benjamin Dargent, Closer’s editor, said it had confirmed with Zemmour’s entourage the truth of reports about the condition of Knafo, who was a teenage fan of the journalist when he had a weekly slot on a popular Saturday night talk show.
The matter was of public interest “because he is well placed in the race . . . he campaigns on family values and appeals to conservative supporters. They may be interested to know there is a gap between the . . . values he preaches and the man he is”, Dargent said.
Zemmour has three adult children with his wife, Mylène Chichportich, 62, a corporate lawyer. His campaign for strict, old-fashioned moral values appeals to older, traditionalist Catholic voters. He opposes gay marriage and believes that women are the natural subordinates of men. He has drawn feminist ire for also suggesting that they are the playthings of politicians.
Moral guardians of the society.
And for god’s sake woman, couldn’t you find a worst man to get pregnant with?
He knew the aide since she was 13… disgusting man
eewwww
Dude is 63 and still reproducing. Guess we’ll see how the child turns out. Could be a nice case study of paternal age effect.
>Zemmour, 63, and Sarah Knafo, 28
Oh fuck he pulled a reverse Macron.
>facing scandal yesterday
Well, I doubt that such blatant Virility would hurt anyone’s political ambitions in France.
Le Boris Johnson method…
Lucky bastard
This is the best advertisement for liberal promiscuity and the opposite of far right moralism as you will find, so thank you Monsieur Zemmour for your service.
Dear Americans, this will not hurt his chances whatsoever. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Least promiscuous French politician
How on earth did she want to fuck Mr. Burns?
Surely this will negatively affect his campaign, his chief aide and confidante will be too busy to work in the middle of the election run up, he’ll have new responsibilities and duties, even if he dosen’t support the child much which is harder considering this is front page news, he’ll have much closer media scrutiny from now and it will damage his image of the morally right guy
It wouldn’t be a real French election without such an issue arising.
Guy looks like a Disney villain.
Does this matter in France? Gives him votes, or loses him votes?
I realize in some countries it would sink his chances, but in France, does it matter?
Shock and horror. French people fuck.
People from the left fuck, people from the right fuck.
All you need is to be elected and bam. All pussy you can shake your dick at.
“Do what i say, not what i do”
Foul cretin.
This guy fucks but still not enough to be the Boris Johnson.
The Mitterrand challenge
Tell me you’re French without telling me you’re French.
the horror
but in ol testa they used to do it mostly when 800 years old
So France’s Mr. Burns drops his sperm to his chief aide? Ehh.
Premium craic.
Conservatives really suffer from cognitive dissonance a lot, don’t they? The more extreme their zealotry, the greater their hypocrisy.
How drunk did he get her in order to fuck him?
Breaking news : Guy had sex
Zemmour is a far right idiot, but this “scandal” is stupid. He has been divorcing with his wife, so there is no moral problem about being with someone else, he isn’t cheating.
Where is the problem ?
Sex outside marriage ? Zemmour dislikes muslims and cries a lot about the end of western virility but he isn’t a religious bigot, this relationship doesn’t really contradict anything he says he stands for.
Sex with someone younger ? There should be a problem with Macron too then. And thanks god we are no longer bigots shocked by this nowadays, they are adults they do what they want with the private parts.
This is trash news from a trash gossip magazine, it is only voyeurism and an attack on private life in order to make money, but of course they have the audacity to claim it was the moral thing to do to publish it.
Oh God… Girl, you can do so much better than this vampire Gargamel
Fair play. Good to have leader with proved fecundity like Boris.
/s
Is this a positive or a smear for his campaign?
It really is hard to know anymore.
lmaoooooooooooooo unreal EVERY TIME THE SAME FAR RIGHT GETTING THE LOVER PREGNANT CANNOT BELIEVE ITTTTT
French here.
Literally no one cares, wether people like him or not.
Private life is supposed to be private.
I prefer to judge the man on his program for the country.
And I don’t like him at all, he’s a populist pundit racist cunt.
But I truly don’t care where he wet his noodle, and none of the people I know care either.