Christina Kragh Michelsen, who has lived with Jean-Paul Guerlain for several years, was convicted on appeal of “deliberate violence against a vulnerable person”.
It’s a legal soap opera that never ends. For almost ten years, the son of the famous nose Jean-Paul Guerlain, Stéphane Guerlain, and his father’s partner, the over 60-year-old Danish Christina Kragh Michelsen, have been waging a merciless war of lawsuits and lawsuits.
This Thursday, January 12, the Criminal Court of Versailles sentenced the perfumer’s concubine to a four-month suspended sentence and 3,000 euros in damages on appeal for “deliberate violence against a vulnerable person”, namely Jean-Paul Guerlain himself. , said Le Figaro the lawyer of the Guerlain son Me Pascal Koerfer.
Christina Kragh was also ordered to pay an employee of the family home €2,000 for “moral harassment”. The clerk had assured Le Figaro that Christina Kragh “prevented her from doing her job” and regularly repeated to her that she “didn’t know the Arabs were clean”. For her part, Jean-Paul Guerlain’s companion says she is convinced that some of the estate’s employees have been asked to spy on her for the sake of the perfumer’s son.
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In October 2021, the defendant was tried for “harassment” and “neglect of a person who cannot protect themselves”. The public prosecutor of the Republic of Versailles, Philippe Toccanier, then applied for 18 months probation against Christina Kragh with a ban on contact with Jean-Paul Guerlain and a ban on staying in “La Vallée”, the domain of the perfumer. She had been released, but prosecutors had appealed.
This legal battle between the Guerlain son and the concubine was the result of some angry skirmishes over custody and the living conditions in which the patriarch, who now has Alzheimer’s disease, lives. Stéphane Guerlain believed that Christina Kragh Michelsen allowed her father to live in undignified conditions. According to his lawyer, they regularly quarreled when he visited his father to meet with him during weekly lunches, although his companion did not encourage these conversations. These arguments came to a head when Stéphane Guerlain allegedly tried to run over Christina Kragh with his car one day in November. He then filed a complaint for harassment and threats. Stéphane Guerlain was released in June 2022.
At the helm, Christina Kragh’s attorney claimed Guerlain’s son was waging “a constant war of harassment” against his client, who also complained that he “regularly turned off the heat” and failed to maintain the property. . “There are gutters everywhere, water is dripping in the basement, no TV or internet, the fridge is always empty, trees are growing in one of the houses, the horses are living in their excrement, the guest room mattresses have been removed, the bidets torn out, the hot water and the Heating turned off,” Figaro Me explained to Frédéric Bélot two years ago, assuring that the property is now “in ruins”.
For her part, Christina Kragh believes that she was never welcome in this family and that Stéphane Guerlain would never have accepted that his father fell in love with her. According to the Dane, he would have done anything to prevent her from marrying her father. In return, Me Koerfer asserts that his client is convinced that his father never wanted to marry this woman and that she is “manipulating” him in order to usurp his inheritance. With this court decision, which seems to prove Stéphane Guerlain right, will the year-long smell of discord that has pervaded the Guerlains disappear?