AMEL BENT. The companion of singer Amel Bent, Patrick Antonelli, was imprisoned in May 2022 in Nanterre prison for fraud.
[Mis à jour le 12 novembre 2022 à 20h16] Amel Bent on the TF1 set: the singer is the guest of the fifth Star Academy bonus, this Saturday, November 12. On this occasion, students from the 2022 promotion of telecrochet will sing with her, on stage. The opportunity also for us to take a closer look at the private life of the interpreter of My philosophy.
It was on June 15, 2015 that the singer married this manager of a driving school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, whom she met the year before. Their wedding takes place in this city, before they leave for Saint-Tropez to spend their moon honey. Born in February 1977, he manages two establishments. In 2016, he was indicted in a driving license fraud case involving celebrities (such as Ali Baddou, Jérémy Ménez or Samir Nasri), with the complicity of an employee of the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture. According to the authorities, he would have allowed 258 people to obtain false driving licenses against a sum of money between 2,000 and 10,000 euros. Patrick Antonelli will spend four months in prison.
After these disputes with the law, the couple finally had to divorce, reported Public, to be able to file a tax return separate from that of Amel Bent. “The prosecutor has requested a large fine against my client, when he was already sentenced last year for tax evasion to pay several hundred thousand euros. A sum he is unable to repay (…) And as you know, he divorced amicably last year, because it’s not up to his wife to pay,” Patrick Antonelli’s lawyer told the magazine.
Amel Bent’s husband in prison
Last May, Patrick Antonelli, companion of Amel Bent, with whom he has just had a third child, was imprisoned on Tuesday May 3, 2022 at the Nanterre remand center, in the Hauts-de-Seine, to serve a fifteen month sentence. He was released after two months of imprisonment, as part of a sentence adjustment by the Court of Appeal to eight months in prison, fitted with the wearing of an electronic bracelet.
On March 8, 2022, the city’s criminal court sentenced the man to multiple charges, listed by The Parisian. He is therefore condemned “for having illegally exercised the profession of security guard” after having played the bodyguards of his singer companion; for “judgment fraud” after having “presented an invoice when he did not have the authorization to practice” and finally for “simple fraud”, for having “benefited from state aid paid for compensate for the drop in activity during the Covid when there was no right to it. Patrick Antonelli has already been implicated and convicted by the Versailles Court of Appeal in a driving license trafficking case and was placed under an electronic bracelet.
Amel Bent mom for the third time
In October 2021, Amel Bent announced that she was expecting her third child, a boy named Zayn. “I have just passed the famous first trimester. I normally have a baby who will be born in a few months”, then declared the singer in the program Sept à Huit Sunday October 24 on TF1, also revealing to have had a miscarriage and lost her baby a few months earlier, while filming The Voice. “Very quickly, in the days that followed, I began to feel other sensations that I know less about. It started with cramps in my stomach. Obviously, I immediately called my doctor who told me that it was normal. (…) Except that the pain intensifies. I say nothing, I cross the days of recording by saying to myself: ‘I hope there is nothing serious'”, had – she remembered, evoking a test “very painful, both physically and psychologically.”
Amel Bent has since wanted her experience to help women who have suffered a miscarriage to talk about it, “so that these taboos are no longer taboos”, she wrote in a message posted on Instagram. “These are painful ordeals that the codes of our society force us to ignore (…) Let’s be strong, let’s be united and let’s not be afraid to make things happen for our future generations”, concluded the singer.
On April 7, 2022, Amel Bent announced the birth of her third child, in a publication posted on her Instagram account. “Happy and moved to announce the birth of my little prince. Fit and healthy thanks to God. Thank you for all your messages of love and kindness throughout this pregnancy that I have shared with you”, wrote the artist in the caption of two photos.
Sofia and Hana, the two daughters of Amel Bent
Before the birth of their third child, Zayn, with her husband Patrick Antonelli, Amel Bent had two daughters. On September 30, 2015, it was on social networks that she made the news of her first pregnancy: on February 4, 2016, she gave birth to a first child, named Sofia. “I love my time in the studio, but I rush to find my daughter and my husband. I know singing is my passion, but it’s also my job. And this job can’t eat up my whole life. I’m a woman, a wife, a mother. Terribly happy. And I yearn to find my audience, you have no idea”, she confided at the time to Télé 7 Jours. On October 17, 2017, she gave birth to a second baby girl, named Hana.
Amel Bent, the origins of success
Amel Bent Bachir was born on June 21, 1985, in Joué-lès-Tours, in Indre-et-Loire. Her father is Algerian, her mother, Algerian-Moroccan. It was in La Courneuve, in the Parisian suburbs, that the future singer grew up, alongside her parents, her half-sister Mélissa and her half-brother Ilies. His mother transmitted to him the love of French song, especially that of Charles Aznavour.
Amel Bent’s biography is obviously inseparable from music, which she discovered very early. Supported by her high school music teacher, she joined a gospel choir and performed as a teenager at the MJC in her neighborhood. After a baccalaureate S, Amel Bent began studying psychology. But it was in 2003 that her destiny changed: that year, the young woman passed the castings for Nouvelle Star, a very popular tele-hook on M6.
Amel Bent at La Nouvelle Star
In 2003, therefore, at his 18th birthday, Amel Bent sent his candidacy to The New Star, season 2. She was selected and joined the M6 adventure the following year. At the castings, she presented herself in front of André Manoukian, Dove Attia, Marianne James and Manu Katché with the title I Surrenderby Céline Dion, then, in French, Bohemian by Charles Aznavour. “You are a very good singer… of karaoke”, throws Dove Attia at the end of her performance, giving her a “no”. It’s a “yes” for Manu Katché, Andre Manoukian and Marianne James: Amel Bent joins the show. Her powerful voice earns her the support of the show’s viewers week after week. The young artist will reach the semi-finals. A third place which will have made him known to the public, but also to the producers, who offered him a contract as soon as he left the tele-hook. At the end of 2004, on November 30, Amel Bent released his first album, called A summer day and carried by the single My philosophy.
A summer daythe album of success for Amel Bent
after madness New Star and his signing with the Jive label, from Sony, viewers are waiting for Amel Bent and his first album at the turn. In addition to the undeniable success of the title My philosophywhich we will talk about a little later, the other singles The right to error and the almost equally well-known Do not hold back your tears are also hits: the album A summer day sold over 650,000 copies in just a few weeks, achieving platinum certification. And above all, this first album allows Amel Bent to be nominated for the Victoires de la Musique in 2006, in the Public revelation artist of the year category. A prize she won, after performing her hit, My philosophyon the stage of the Zénith de Paris.
My philosophy by Amel Bent, the story of a hit
The song marked an entire generation: My philosophysingle from Amel Bent’s first album, A summer day, released in 2004. The title is an incredible commercial and popular success: for six consecutive weeks, it squats the first place of the charts in France, then in the Top 10 for twelve weeks. In 2005, My philosophy is the third best-selling single of the year, having sold more than 750,000 copies in France alone. Like the album, the song was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique in 2006, in the Original Song of the Year category. Written by Amel Bent and rapper Diam’s, My philosophy speaks of a young woman, “mestizo but not a martyr”, “girl from a popular neighborhood”, who believes in her dreams and fights to move forward, and “aim for the moon”, “always with her fist raised”.
After this vast success, Amel Bent will release five other albums between 2007 with At 20 years and 2019 with the opus tomorrow. But music is not the only passion of the artist, who launches parallel to the cinema and in the dubbing of cartoons, like Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Fairies Where Yeti & Company. Amel Bent also connects TV sets: from New starshe went through Dance with the stars, The Voice Kids and now, The Voice.