Tattinger boss’s ex-mistress makes astonishing allegations about their hedonistic champagne-fuelled intercourse lives as she is convicted for chasing him down the road with a knife and threatening to chop off his penis

The ex-mistress of a French Champagne magnet has been convicted of harassment that included chasing him with a knife and threatening to chop off his penis.

Samira L, 48, was handed a suspended one-year jail sentence for chasing Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, whose household are producers of the well-known Champagne model by the identical identify, exterior the household’s property in Rheims.

In addition to making dying threats and harassing him, the 70-year-old’s former mistress was additionally discovered to have harassed his spouse Claire, their daughter Vitalie – who presently heads up the enterprise – and one other alleged mistress, The Times reports.

However Pierre-Emmanuel’s victory in court docket was a bittersweet one. Samira L, an accountant, used the trial to make lurid allegations about their intercourse life that can bitter what was meant to be a cheerful retirement for him and his spouse.

Taittinger first went to the police in 2017 to report a three-year marketing campaign of harassment by his former mistress. The pair had struck up a relationship in 2011, which resulted in 2014, a lot to the dismay of  Samira L.

Samira L, 48, was handed a suspended one-year jail sentence for chasing Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger (pictured together with his spouse Claire), whose household are producers of the well-known Champagne model 

The court docket heard that after Taittinger made the criticism to the police about her behaviour, Samira L bombarded the businessman with textual content messages threatening to emasculate and kill him, earlier than taking a practice to the household dwelling to confront him.

There, she pulled out a knife and chased him down the center of the road. 

In a textual content afterwards, she advised him: ‘If I had trainers on, I’d have caught you and I’d have murdered you,’ in line with The Instances.

This was the fruits of three years of troubfling behaviour, the Paris court docket was advised. The lady admitted that she hounded Taittinger as a result of she felt abused and manipulated when he broke off their affair.

He had stored her in a flat in Paris, and even agreed to pay her €2,470 month-to-month hire for 4 years in an try to calm her anger.

She additionally accused him of forcing her into a lifetime of champagne consuming whereas taking her with him on visits to Paris’s libertine intercourse golf equipment. 

In court docket, Samira L stated he would select outfits for her, ‘in addition to the make-up and hair elimination’ and claimed he ‘selected the boys I needed to have intercourse with’.

She additionally claimed she had been raped on the golf equipment. The managers stated the recieved no such complaints from her, The Instances reported.

In an try to spoil Taittinger’s popularity, the court docket heard she additionally tried to unfold baseless claims of paedophilia and pimping.

Samira L chased Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger with a knife and threatened to chop off his penis on the Champagne magnet’s household property (pictured), the court docket heard

Taittinger – grandson of Pierre Taittinger, the founding father of the Champagne firm, has lengthy had a popularity for being considerably of an eccentric.

In 2021, Le Monde described him as an ‘an exuberant playboy’. 

In an interview with the Irish Times in 2016, he stated: ‘I’m paid to drink, I’m paid to eat and make love generally, and drink fantastic champagne generally.’

‘Champagne just isn’t solely a wine, it’s a image of happiness, a logo of delicacy, of magnificence,’ he stated on the time. He as soon as in contrast glowing wine to Viagra. 

On its web site, the Tattinger firm describes the person as ‘an aesthete, a hedonist and a humanist, on the similar time a dreamer and a decided man’. 

In 2016, he even took a quick run on the French presidency, however dropped out of the operating after two days, citing ‘a severe private occasion’.

In addition to making dying threats and harassing him, the 70-year-old’s former mistress was additionally discovered to have harassed his spouse Claire, their daughter Vitalie (pictured) – who presently heads up the enterprise – and one other alleged mistress, The Instances experiences 

Talking to Le Parisien newspaper, Samira L’s lawyer stated Taittinger had exerted poisonous management over his shopper.

‘There was not a loving man on one facet and a manipulating lady on the opposite. Her existence was dedicated to Taittinger… He managed her complete life.’ Tom Michel stated. ‘She felt that she had been sullied. She needed to do the identical again to him.’ 

Nicolas Hubsch, Taittinger’s lawyer, stated the judges presiding over the case had clearly not purchased any of Samira L’s accusations.

‘None of this girl’s claims have led to prosecution,’ he advised L’Union. ‘This girl has used slander to wreck my shopper, to intimidate him and put him underneath strain.’

He added that the six-year affair had ‘profoundly affected my shopper morally and psychologically’ wherein Taittinger was ‘stupidly in love’ together with his mistress.

A psychiatrist’s report delivered to the court docket stated Samira L had a ‘histrionic persona’, a dysfunction outlined by exaggerated emotionality.

Taittinger additionally heads up its Evremond model, a Franco-British glowing wine winery in Kent

The Taittinger Champagne firm was bought in 2005 to Starwood Capital – an American funding agency – inflicting deep divisions on the household, however Pierre-Emmanuel purchased the corporate again a 12 months later for €746 million.

After handing the reins to his daughter in 2020, he’s now honorary chairman of the corporate. He additionally heads up its Evremond model, a Franco-British sparkling wine vineyard in Kent.

Within the interview with the Irish Instances, he stated that his retirement could be a day of combined feelings.

‘I will probably be unhappy as a result of I like my work… however I am already getting ready. Will probably be an exquisite day. They’ll supply me two little canine as a result of I need to maintain two canine. The dialog will probably be excellent. I’ll haven’t any mistress anymore. My spouse will probably be pleased.’