On the occasion of the release of the new documentary My name is johnny (December 10 in CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and deluxe box), retracing the one and only North American tour of Taulier in 2014, his widow played the tourist guides with the journalists of the Parisian. In its edition of December 9, 2021, our colleagues report their day in Los Angeles, in the footsteps of the rocker, at the time when we commemorate the four years of his death.
After having found Laeticia Hallyday in her new home in Pacific Palisades, where she lives with her daughters Jade and Joy (17 and 13 years old), but also her companion Jalil Lespert and his son (Aliosha), head to the bathroom. sport Gold’s Gym, then the delicatessen Gjusta. The widow then drove her guests down Sunset Boulevard to the Shamrock Tattoo parlor. The latter is held by Mark Mahoney, a global tattoo legend who has notably collaborated with Lenny Kravitz and Johnny Depp. But the tattoo artist was above all a very good friend of Johnny Hallyday.
“Mark was very close to Johnny. The tattoo was part of his life, and it is a real culture that he passed on to me, explains Laeticia Hallyday. I started when Jade came into our life [en 2004, NDLR] and i got a tattoo fourteen times, Johnny much more“The 46-year-old widow adds that Mark Mahoney himself made the Taulier’s very last tattoo:”He wanted to surprise me. It was my figure.“