On January 2, Zohra DatiRachida Dati’s only daughter, celebrated her fifteenth birthday. Born on January 2, 2019 when Rachida Dati was Minister of Justice, the teenager was quickly at the heart of numerous controversies and rumors; For a long time, many rumors falsely claimed that Zohra was the illegitimate daughter of Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of the Republic at the time. Totally erroneous information that Rachida Dati had strongly denied, without publicly disclosing the name of her daughter’s father. Just five days after giving birth, Rachida Dati scandalized public opinion by returning to work. Feminist associations are stepping up to the plate and saying they are scandalized.
It was only in 2012, three years after Zohra’s birth, that Rachida Dati decided to put an end to the rumors suggesting that she and Nicolas Sarkozy had an adulterous relationship from which the young woman would have come. She decides to make public the identity of the father, who is none other than businessman Dominique Desseigne. The man, 21 years his senior, is the chairman and CEO of the Barrière group from 1995 to 2023. The man is not unknown to the Republican clan, since he has long been close to Nicolas Sarkozy, with whom he dined on several occasions at Fouquet’s (which is owned by the Barrière group), in the company of Rachida Dati. Ranked 32nd fortune in France with assets estimated at 1.5 billion euros in 2019, Dominique Desseigne was hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis. In 2020, his fortune melted, falling to 610 million euros according to Capital.
She is demanding €6,000 in monthly alimony from him!
If at first, Rachida Dati, who has just been appointed Minister of Culture by Gabriel Attal, chose to raise her daughter alone, she finally decided in 2012 to take him to court to prevent him from recognizing her paternity. She also asks him to provide for their daughter, and demands monthly alimony of 6000€. To defend himself, Dominique Desseigne assures that his ex-partner was the mistress of “8 lovers in the same period”, and refuses to evade the paternity test that she imposes on him. In October 2014, the Versailles high court ruled in favor of Rachida Dati, and declared that Dominique Desseigne was indeed the father of Zohra Dati, and ordered the latter to pay monthly alimony of €2,500. The businessman contests it, but the Versailles Court of Appeal confirms the first judgmentin January 2016.