46 years ago already, Claude François left us prematurely, at the age of 39. The singer, popularized by catchy songs like Belinda, Monday in the Sun And Magnolias forever, died of pulmonary edema caused by an accidental electrocution in his bathroom. While he was taking a bath, Claude François, very obsessive, noticed that his electric wall light located just above his bathtub was wobbly. He then got up to reposition it, but his fingers remained stuck to the copper, and the electrical wires being partly exposed, the singer was electrocuted.
Next to fifty years after his death, tongues continue to be loosened about the character that Claude François was in everyday life. While many feminist voices are rising to challenge the singer’s penchant for underage girls, the Clodettes are also emerging from the silence. This Saturday March 9, 2024 in
Facing Hanouna
the weekend version of TPMP still orchestrated by Cyril Hanouna, two former emblematic dancers of Claude François’ troupe will make unprecedented revelations about the daily life they faced, and will describe a very temperamental employer. Even worse,
Kitty Sina will accuse him of repeated racist remarks.
“We didn’t educate and raise you”
Indeed, during the interview, Kitty Sinawho was one of Claude François’ main Clodettes, will affirm that the latter showed himself repeatedly degrading and humiliating himgoing so far as to implore him to “to return to (one’s) coconut tree”. Racist remarks which would cause a scandal today but which, at the time, caused no stir. Kitty remembers one scene more than all the others, when she arrived late at Buttes Chaumont: “He told me: We didn’t educate you, we didn’t raise you. He must have told me something: Go back to your coconut tree, something like that” she explained, implying that these words were customary and usual…