The family is the base of Marine Le Pen, but it is also the source of many of her troubles. At the dawn of the presidential elections for which she has once again presented her candidacy, the leader of the RN must settle disputes with her niece Marion Maréchal, whose rapprochement with Eric Zemmour is obvious. A few years earlier, it was his relationship with his father Jean-Marie Le Pen that caused ink to flow, after his exclusion from the FN in 2015. With his mother Pierrette Lalanne, relations were also very complicated, with in highlight his cover for the magazine Playboy in 1987.
Back in the 1980s, Marine Le Pen had to deal with the highly publicized separation of her father, a controversial politician, and her mother, Pierrette née Lalanne. The couple, parent of Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine is not well and Pierrette Lalanne suddenly leaves home to leave with a journalist (Jean Marcilly) while the one who will become the head of the RN is teenager. They tear each other apart through the media and in particular the magazine Playboy. Questioned by the charming magazine, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who refuses to pay alimony, declares: “Sif she needs money, all she has to do is clean.” To which his future ex-wife and former model responds by posing in scantily clad maid outfit.
What traumatize the Le Pen family and more specifically their three daughters. The Express comes back to this event, to explain why Marion Maréchal does not want to cause further family havoc. His mother, Yann, told him “a hundred times the departure of her grandmother, Pierrette Lalanne, in her undressed Playboy in 1987 to infuriate Jean-Marie Le Pen. Fifteen years of silence followed with his daughters“. In the show An intimate ambition broadcast on M6 in November 2021, Marine Le Pen had revealed to have “forgiven a mother who is gone“, even displaying his complicity with her in front of the cameras.
Pierrette Lalanne has even returned to settle with her ex-husband, remarried with Jany. “I came back and Jean-Marie said to me ‘well listen, you are here at home.’ I too forgave him. I settled there. And then we went back to normal life. Jean-Marie and I see each other often, there are no problems. They have a father, a mother. He is a great-grandfather. It’s the family”, she explained in the Karine Le Marchand show.