JEAN-LUC LAHAYE. After six months spent in the prison of Health in Paris, the singer Jean-Luc Lahaye, accused of raping minors, was released under judicial supervision.
Released on bail. According to information from Parisian, singer Jean-Luc Lahaye, accused of raping minors, obtained his release on Tuesday under judicial supervision. He had been placed in pre-trial detention in the prison of Health, in Paris, after his indictment on November 5.
His two lawyers, My David Apelbaum and Julia Minkowki, had filed a request for release, initially rejected by the judges, but finally validated by the Paris Court of Appeal, explains the newspaper.
Despite this release under judicial supervision, Jean-Luc Lahaye remains indicted for “rape”, “rape and sexual assault on minors aged 15”, as well as “corruption of minors”.
The singer Jean-Luc Lahaye is imprisoned in the prison of Health, in a district reserved for sensitive personalities of the establishment called QB4, as are George Tron or was Claude Guéant. If some personalities take detention better, according to information from the newspaper Marianne, Jean-Luc Lahaye is “at worst.” “The one who is doing very badly is the other Jean-Luc, Jean-Luc Lahaye”, explains a former prisoner to the newspaper. And to a relative of the “very worried” singer to add: “He spends his days crying, often refuses to go out for a walk and he has lost more than 12 kg.”
At the end of January, the columnist Gilles Verdez, added some elements in this sense on the plateau of Touche not at my post: “He is in a cell of nine square meters, you have a small kitchen area, toilets and shower, and you can have TV if you pay extra”, he underlined, describing this “VIP corner, because they are individual cells” isolated to “protect famous people or who are suspected of crimes”.
And to Vincent Martin, a close friend of Jean-Luc Lahaye, to explain on the same set having received letters from the singer, describing his conditions of detention: “He tells me that the minutes seem like hours, he then tells me that he has an hour’s walk in the yard.” “He tells me that death could be a deliverance because he’s been drooling from being between four walls for four months when he’s presumed innocent, he hasn’t been judged yet…”, adds he.
Heard Monday, January 24 by the investigating judge in charge of the case, Margaux Lahaye, daughter of the singer, was indicted for “subordination of witnesses” in the case of suspicion of rape of minors which targets Jean-Luc Lahaye, revealed franceinfo. She is suspected of having “pressured” the singer’s two accusers in order to “force them into silence.”
According to information from Le Parisien, two other women were heard last week: the mothers of the two complainants. Like Margaux Lahaye, they had been arrested and placed in police custody on November 3, in the same way as Jean-Luc Lahaye.
The two other women are summoned by the investigating judge in charge of the case also with a view to an indictment, for “non-denunciation of a crime”. The two women, aged 53 and 49, will be heard on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 November. They would have encouraged sexual relations between their daughters and Jean-Luc Lahaye. One of them was indicted for “failure to report a crime” Thursday, January 27.
Facing the investigators, Jean-Luc Lahaye continues to claim his innocence. Le Parisien was able to obtain the content of the interrogation carried out by a psycho-criminologist investigator in the premises of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, rue des Trois-Fontanot in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
When an investigator asks him what, in his opinion, is the age of sexual majority, the singer reportedly replied: “Our presidential couple set the tone. We can find nothing to complain about that Madame Macron seduced her 14-year-old student years, 15 years, so today the cursor is a little bit elsewhere.” Jean-Luc Lahaye evokes a “proper morality” to each, “with its variations” and quotes Léo Ferré: “What is boring with morality is that it is always that of others.”
According to information from Le Parisien, the 68-year-old singer was arrested in Paris on Wednesday November 3 in Paris for “rape and sexual assault on a minor over 15 years old” as well as “corruption of a minor”. He is suspected of sexually abusing two teenage girls in 2013 and 2014. The two alleged victims were aged 16 and 17 at the time. Both had filed a complaint at the time, before retracting. One of the two complainants is the teenager in another case, the one for which Jean-Luc Lahaye was convicted in 2015 for corruption of a minor.
According to concordant sources cited by Le Parisien, the two alleged victims accuse Jean-Luc Lahaye “of having had sexual intercourse with them and would have asked them, by Internet and interposed cameras, to undress and strike sexual poses. .” She would have filed a complaint again at the beginning of the year. A new investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office after the receipt of the two complaints in April 2021.
The two complainants evoke similar facts, according to The Parisian, and talk about a brutal and manipulative relationship, both being fans of Jean-Luc Lahaye at the time. The teenage girls both lost their virginity to the former star. The first alleged victim says he “met his idol one-on-one between the ages of 15 and 17, at least six times”, reports the newspaper. Her mother would have covered these antics during which she “was waiting in the car.”
The second complainant was a college student when she discovered Jean-Luc Lahaye on television and quickly became a fan of the artist. Spotted by the former star in his concerts, the teenager goes on stage several times and begins a relationship with Jean-Luc Lahaye. She estimates at “52 the number of intimate relationships with the artist, whom she describes as ‘animal'”, explains Le Parisien. The former groupie also evokes the role that her mother would have played, who herself would have had a relationship with the artist.
In the columns of Parisian, Martine Brousse, president of the association which is a civil party in the La Voix de l’enfant case, says she is “not surprised” by the indictment of Jean-Luc Lahaye. She adds that she “always thought there were other potential victims and maybe not all of them have come forward yet.” Presumed innocent until a possible conviction in this case, the singer was convicted in 2015 of corruption of a minor after soliciting a 14-year-old girl on the Internet and asking her to indulge in sexual games filmed by webcams. This young girl is one of the two plaintiffs.
It should also be noted that, according to Le Parisien, Jean-Luc Lahaye’s daughter, Margaux, was also placed in police custody as part of this investigation for “witness subordination”, for having “pressured the two teenagers to silence them” and “complicity in the rape of a minor.” According to Le Parisien, the two mothers of the complainants were also placed in police custody for “non-denunciation of a crime” and “complicity in rape”. “They also admire the singer, they would have pushed their daughters to have relations with Jean-Luc Lahaye and would even have accompanied them during meetings”, details the newspaper. The two teenagers who filed a complaint against Jean-Luc Lahaye were, according to Le Parisien, “under the influence of the singer whose hits they appreciated.”
Jean-Luc Lahaye is a French singer born on December 23, 1952 in Paris. Child of the DDASS (his parents having abandoned him at 6 months), Jean-Luc Lahaye had a difficult childhood. It was the discovery of music on a radio set, in the midst of the yéyés era, that saved him, despite a few offenses that earned him prison sentences. When he leaves, Jean-Luc Lahaye settles down: he sets foot in show business by becoming a waiter in a restaurant that offers shows. It is thanks to this job that he meets Dalida, a decisive relationship for his career.
Through relationships he releases one of his hits, woman i love, in 1982, without promotion. From then on, the successes are linked. Now publicized, Jean-Luc Lahaye takes the opportunity to highlight his difficult childhood. He publishes a book titled Hundred Familiesand also became host of his own television show in 1987, Lahaye d’honneur, whose goal is to raise funds, live, for charities. This show has the credits drop me offwhich would become one of Jean-Luc Lahaye’s successes.
While the early 2000s marked a crossing of the desert, during which Jean-Luc Lahaye became an entrepreneur, television took an interest in him during a program devoted to forgotten singers: he again obtained public support, and relaunched his career as well. A first springboard, followed by success linked to the 1980s souvenir tours and the film stars 80in which he interprets his own role.
The singer, star of the 1980s, was sentenced on May 18, 2015 to a one-year suspended prison sentence for corruption of a minor after soliciting a 14-year-old girl on the Internet and asking her to indulge in filmed sex games. by webcam. On April 1, 2016, he withdrew his intention to appeal, “for the sake of appeasement”. He will also admit in a program to be attracted by younger girls. In his book Classified confidential, released in 2016, he explained himself about the many controversies he has been the subject of in recent years, in particular for his statements about his love of young women. “I understood that it is very tempting for certain media to slip towards the amalgam, and to associate my name with pedophilia. And there, I have desires of murder. I have always affirmed, proclaimed , that I liked girls younger than me,” he wrote, complaining about the “smell of sulfur” around him.
For several years now, Jean-Luc Lahaye would share the life of a certain Paola, his 30-year-old junior, as revealed by TéléStar in June 2020, when the artist had confided in his columns for a long time. The two lovebirds would have met on a market of Montmartre, in Paris. TéléStar reported at the time that Paola worked in the skydiving club of Frétoy-le-Château, in the department of Oise. The young woman would have been “an unwavering support” during her troubles with the law in 2015, still assured the singer in his autobiography Classified confidential, published in 2016.