This Monday, September 19, Christophe Rocancourt was present in court in Paris, to be tried for influence peddling and fraud in particular. The one we call “the star scammer“assured Monday to have”exchange” and took the opposite view of some of his statements during the investigation. Former companion of Sonia Rolland, and father of their daughter born in 2007, Tess, Christophe Rocancourt is known to have extracted millions of dollars from rich people in the 1990s. Americans, in Hollywood and New York, by multiplying the pseudonyms, which earned him to spend several years in prison.
In France, Christophe Rocancourt was sentenced in 2012 for abuse of weakness on the director Catherine Breillat and, five years later, in the case of the theft of 52 kg of cocaine from the former headquarters of the judicial police, on 36 , Headquarters. But the 55-year-old defends himself today. “Rocancourt before and Rocancourt today, it’s not the same, the years have passed“, he promised on the stand. The defendant, thick-rimmed dark glasses, gray hair styled on the side dark blue sweater over black pants and sneakers, has changed a lot. “I was a crook” and “today, I have evolved, I have changed“, he thus declared, as reported by AFP. He describes himself as the author of seven books, according to his words.
This whole story, if I may (…) it’s a bit of a cornecul story
“All this story, if I may allow myself (…) it’s a bit of a story of cornecul, we are not in the high-flying “, he said. And to continue: “I recognize the facts clearly“, then “I assume“. In this case, Christophe Rocancourt says “The star scammer” is judged alongside 18 defendants. The facts of this case with drawers date back to 2014 and 2015. He is judged in particular for having lent 90,000 euros to the lawyer Marcel Ceccaldi, in exchange for substantial interest. If he had recognized this loan, he now denies on the stand.”I had to help him with a few denarii, derisory sums” and “I helped him out by bringing him two clients“, but “free“, he said. He is also suspected of having asked the founder of the GIGN, Christian Prouteau, met on a TV set in 2010, to intervene in the regularization file of a Moroccan woman, client of Marcel Ceccaldi. Christophe Rocancourt also admits having practiced the profession of banker illegally, by lending sums to “a small list” of people at usurious rates of 30%. And can’t help but slip, smiling: “in my case, admit that it’s a bit funny, banker…“