“I have a thought for his wife”had proclaimed Léa Salamé on the set ofWe are live in November 2021, when the rumors about the couple of Eric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo were so intense. A few months later, a presidential election after, the book The Intriguing Sarah Knafo (Robert Laffont), written by Ava Djamshidi and François-Xavier Ménage, looks back on this particular duo formed by the young enarque and the former editorialist turned politician. The book also focuses on the candidate’s wife, Mylène Chichportich, with whom he had his three children, as reported Gala.
Since Eric Zemmour entered politics, Sarah Knafo, his adviser who became his campaign manager, has gained in importance. Taking ever more light, she assumed her companion status when the founder of the Reconquest movement formalized their relationship on BFMTV, even if she fumed behind the scenes. But what about the one he married in 1982? Mylène Chichportich, lawyer, has always remained in the shadows. Described as a very strong woman by the couple’s friend Isabelle Balkany, she was also shaken by the spread of the private life of the father of her children: “For his wife it is a great suffering for his children too“, describes a friend of the couple in the book The Intriguing Sarah Knafo. “She wants to be the caretaker of the family. Even if they no longer live together“, it is specified in this work.
During the Villepinte meeting on December 5, 2021 which marked the entry into the official campaign of Eric Zemmour, Mylène Chichportich had experienced a difficult moment. She was present with their three children, Hugo, 24, Thibault, 22, and Clarisse, 17, but had experienced an embarrassing moment that recounted Paris Match : “The wife of Eric Zemmour, Mylène, is indeed presented there accompanied by their three grown-up children. The lawyer arrives early, inquires about their dressing room, reminding the security guard to be ‘Mme Zemmour’. Except that no private space has been allocated to them, nor even to Jean-Luc, Zemmour’s brother, who came with his eldest son.” A “indelicate blunder“of which the ubiquitous Sarah Knafo knew nothing. She was at that time with the leader of Reconquest, locked in a room with the vocal coach of the polemicist transformed into a politician.
Today, Eric Zemmour and his young companion Sarah Knafo are no longer hiding, the latter has even returned to the false rumors of pregnancy. Mylène Chichportich, she is always careful not to take the light, putting herself, with their children, away from the media whirlwind created by the one she married forty years ago.