Jeane Manson: the testimony of Shirel, the daughter of the singer

JOAN MANSON. The former mother-in-law of Coline Berry, who accuses her father, comedian Richard Berry, of incestuous acts, was invited to Touche pas à mon poste with her daughter, Shirel.

[Mis à jour le 25 mai 2022 à 15h13] The soap opera of the Berry affair continues. After her legal victory against Coline Berry, Jeane Manson was the guest of Do not touch My TVMonday, May 23, 2022. His daughter, Shirel, guest at Cyril Hanouna in the same way, explained how Coline Berry, who accuses her father Richard Berry of rape and sexual assault on a minor, would have contacted them to testify against him in the columns of the newspaper Le Monde.

“It was Coline who called me and said to me: ‘Do you want to testify with me in Le Monde?’ I told her: ‘But not at all, because I haven’t experienced that’ (…) And she had asked my mother the same thing. She wanted us with her, because we didn’t Didn’t like Richard… Poor guy, now I get on very well with him,” says Shirel, who has always defended her mother during this affair. If Shirel claims to be on good terms with Richard Berry today, this has not always been the case.

“Me, I didn’t like Richard very much, because it was a very complicated marriage between them. They had a lot of passion and a lot of arguments so, as a child, it was stormy and therefore a little violent, not in the blows but in the form”, explains Shirel, before adding: “I did not appreciate Richard very much because he was not a great father-in-law very emotional with me. So that’s it, that’s all , that’s why I didn’t like him.”

In her testimony, Coline Berry explains that Shirel was present at the time of the events. What the latter denies. “If I wasn’t in that room that she describes, then maybe it happened, we can’t know. But if she says I was in the room and it happened with me, then I can know, since I was there. I say that it was not true”, assures the daughter of the singer.

As for Jeane Manson, she explains in TPMP that she is also on good terms today with her former husband, Richard Berry. “It allowed us to reconcile,” sums up the singer, accused of complicity in incestuous acts when she was still a minor. An accusation which had earned Coline Berry a complaint for defamation and a victory for her former mother-in-law.

Coline Berry, the daughter of Richard Berry, accuses her father of rape and sexual assault on minors, facts to which she mixes her former mother-in-law, the singer Jeane Manson. After these accusations, brought in early 2021, the latter had filed a complaint for defamation against her former daughter-in-law. Thursday April 14, 2022, Coline Berry was sentenced to a fine of 2,000 euros for defamation by the Aurillac court, but also to pay 20,000 euros to Jeane Manson, the ex-companion of Coline Berry, who had filed a complaint. for defamation.

“It is as if an immense burden had just fallen from my shoulders. I have regained my honor, as well as that of my family, deeply bruised by this story”, confides Jeane Manson to the Figaro following this decision. The stormy trial opened on Friday, April 1, at the court in Aurillac, in Cantal, even though the Berry case, the investigation of which was entrusted to the Brigade for the Protection of Minors, is still in progress. Classes.

A trial for defamation which had turned, in the court of Aurillac, into a settlement of family accounts. At the helm, actor Richard Berry, accused by his daughter of “rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor by ascendant and corruption of a minor”, continued to deny. “It’s all fake. Unfortunately, it’s lies and I think she ended up believing it. It’s heartbreaking for a father. I have no attraction for children. I am deeply, frankly, desperate. I did not want to express myself until the investigation was over, but I came today to support Jeane”, explained the actor in front of the judges, reported AFP, before his current partner, Pascale Louange , does not get up and slap Coline Berry, according to several concordant testimonies.

If Coline Berry reiterated her accusations, Jeane Manson also claimed her innocence. For its part, the defense of the daughter of Richard Berry wondered how justice could rule on the complaint for defamation of the American singer, while the investigation into the Berry case is still ongoing. “I do not see how this defamation lawsuit can be held until my client’s complaint has been fully dealt with by the courts. I will ask for a stay of proceedings”, explained Karine Shebabo, Coline’s lawyer. Berry, at BFMTV.

Tuesday February 2, 2021, Le Point revealed the Berry affair: Coline Hiegel Berry, 45, filed a complaint with the Paris public prosecutor on January 21, 2021. She accuses her father, Richard Berry of “rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor by ascendant and corruption of a minor”, and Jeane Manson, her former mother-in-law, of complicity in incestuous acts while she was still a minor. Coline Berry describes facts that would have happened when she was a child, between the ages of 6 and 10. Richard Berry and Jeane Manson were married during the same period, between 1984 and 1986. The Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM) had been seized, according to Le Point and franceinfo, even if the facts would now be prescribed.

In a message posted in Instagram story on February 3, 2021, Coline Berry wrote: “My father’s lies will not withstand careful examination of all the elements gathered so far”. She explains having been “kissed by her father on the mouth with his tongue” and having “had to participate in his sexual games in a context of notorious domestic violence” with Jeane Manson.

The worldwho had had access to the complaint, reported on February 3, 2021: “When the couple had custody of the children at the weekend, it would have happened to them, the morning after their antics, to invite them to the parental room to sexual games. The complainant’s father would then have offered to play the orchestra with his sexual organs and those of his partner (penis, breasts), the two adults being naked. (…) Mrs. Coline Berry would therefore have been forced to put his mouth on Mr. Berry’s sex, all in the presence of the other child (Jeane Manson’s daughter, editor’s note), and repeatedly.

Faced with these accusations, Jeane Manson denies it altogether. In the columns of Figaro on February 4, 2021, she said to herself “flabbergasted and deeply hurt to be taken to task in a family score settlement” and wanted to “wash her honor”. “I never participated in the so-called sex games she talks about, of course (…). If I had known, or the slightest suspicion, of the tiniest act against nature against Coline, I would have immediately triggered the legal process to denounce the author”, assured the singer to the newspaper.

A defense maintained since. On BFM TVthis Friday, April 1, Jeane Manson still proclaims her innocence: “I never hurt her. She has to admit it. I would like her to tell the truth (…) I would like to tell her : ‘You know very well that I never did that to you, and you know very well that your father neither’. These lies must be stopped.”

In addition to accusations of sexual violence, Coline Berry claims that the American singer is a member of the Children of God sect. This is also what the accused denounces, including this fact in her complaint for defamation. The Children of God, also called The Family or The International Family, is a sectarian group created in 1968 in the United States. At heart many scandals, linked in particular to the discovery of incitement to prostitution, incest or pedophilia, the sect was dissolved in France in 1978, but reformed under other names.

According to Vincent Vantighem, journalist at BFMTV, Jeane Manson had denied being part of this sect, indicating that he had welcomed musicians in 1976 who called themselves “The children of God” and who were indeed part of this movement which has since dissolved, but which continues to have followers.

Born October 1, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Jean Ann Manson, known as Jeane Manson, became known in the 1970s first as a playmate, then as a singer. France discovers it with the tube before saying goodbyesold more than 600,000 copies in 1976. Its success exploded and the American, Frenchified, became one of the faces of French variety in the 1970s, alongside the songwriter Jean Renard.

In 1979, Jeane Manson represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest: she finished in thirteenth position with her song I’ve seen it in your eyes before. In 1984, after having released several singles, she took part in the South-West tour, where she met Richard Berry.

Before her meeting with the French comedian, Jeane Manson had two daughters: Jennifer (known under the pseudonym of singer Shirel), born in 1978 from her relationship with producer André Djaoui, and Marianne, born in 1988, with the journalist and producer Allain Baugrain-Dugourg. It was therefore in 1984 that the singer met Richard Berry. A stormy and conflicting relationship, which she recounted in the columns of Gala in September 2020. “We were two artists, it was the worst configuration. We suffered from a situation of competition. Richard knows very well that I did not have not been happy in our history so I can talk about it. When it worked for me, he was jealous, and when it worked for him, I felt in a weak position. The couple divorced two years after their marriage, in 1986.

Faced with the wave of the case in early 2021, Jeane Manson’s daughter, Shirel Sayegh Djaoui, mentioned by Coline Berry in her complaint, immediately spoke. The singer then assured that none of the facts reported in the complaint were true. “Me, she said I was in the room with them, so I’m the only witness. So I was 6 or 7 years old and I can tell you that nothing like that happened,” she explained. to BFMTV on February 4, 2021. And to add, in a Facebook post published the same day: “I have a mother who is very protective who would never have let that happen, and then I don’t remember . I know that Coline’s accusations are false from the first word to the last.”