We know that Serge Gainsbourg was a ladies’ man. That he has had many lively, passionate, crazy relationships, whether with Bambou, with Jane Birkin or Brigitte Bardot. But there is one person who has shared his life in a rather discreet way, it is his first wife Elisabeth Levitsky, said Lisa. Unfortunately, the latter is deceased at the beginning of October 2022we learn today the newspaper West France. She died in a retirement home located in Quillio. Aged 96, she had actually spent the last years of her life in Côtes-d’Armor. It was she who had inspired the famous title Eliza.
Elisabeth Levitsky was born on March 5, 1926 in Pau. She was in a relationship with Serge Gainsbourg in 1947, when this daughter of Russian immigrant aristocrats was 21 years old. Their paths had crossed for the first time at the Académie de Montmartre and they had fallen in love, linked by their common origins and by the passion they both had for painting. Married in November 1951the lovebirds finally had divorced 6 years later, but they had managed to stay on good terms. Lise was the artist’s confidante and friend until her death in 1991. Now they have to toast, together, up there, in memory of the good old days.
This idyll, Elisabeth Levitsky had told it in a book published in 2010, entitled Lisa and Luluwritten by author Bertrand Dicale. Remarried to Jean-Marie Grandjouan, she had always kept Serge in her heart… and not only. “She had kept drawings by Serge Gainsbourgrecalls Thibaut Guignard, the mayor of Plouec-L’Hermitage, as underlined West France. these were stolen from him during a burglary. This deprived her of a certain income and she lived the last years of her life very modestly..” Since 2016, Elisabeth Levitsky lived in a retirement home. She had lived, until that year, in a small farm south of Saint-Brieux, at Hermitage-Lorge.