Shortly before or after Charlotte began seeing Alex Dellal in 2006 there were reports in the media that she had a stalker who was issuing kidnap threats. She has had a bodyguard ever since. Just two weeks ago on the
Vanitatis website there was a man from South America explaining in very explicit detail what he would like to do with Charlotte's "big beautiful lips" if he could ever get her away from "that #$^* French guy".
I don't blame her for having a bodyguard!
As for her level of fame, it started after her 16th birthday when she was being called one of the most eligible females in Royal Europe and it went through the roof after she got involved with Gad Elmaleh. Since her relationship with Carole Bouquet's son became public last spring, every weekly on the Continent from
Paris Match and
Point de Vue down to
OGGI, CHI, Bunte, Closer,
France-Dimanche..all have featured Dimitri and Charlotte on their covers.
The very staid
Corriere della Serra had a story on their website last month speculating on whether the Palais Princier is preparing for Charlotte's wedding.(their opinion was yes...that it's a matter of WHEN and not IF the two will wed.)
Corriere usually limits its reporting to Italian politics and events at the Vatican.
There probably is a limited market for Charlotte stories here in America, but Europe is obviously different.
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When the paps were stalking him and Charlotte across Paris, New York, Rome and Venice all spring and summer Dimitri hardly seemed to react at all. Only the presence of little Raphael in close contact with them at LAX seems to have shaken his composure. When the photogs began shooting through the windshield of the SUV into the interior of the vehicle you could see Dimitri lean forward and speak briefly to the child as if to reassure him.
Far from being amused at his successor's "childishness" Gad Elmaleh should be thankful that the man who may end up as his little boy's stepfather cares about him that way.