Le Pen vs Le Pen: 50 years of family squabbles

[WorldNews]

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Six months ago, France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen stormed out of her father Jean-Marie's house after his Doberman dog savaged her Bengal cat to death. A foretaste perhaps of the recent dogfight that has torn apart the National Front party Jean-Marie founded but also the Le Pen family that has already had more than its fair share of scraps. From the vengeful naked appearance of an ex-wife in Playboy to the treachery and "ex-communication" of an eldest daughter, the patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen, 86, has a family history almost as colourful as his controversial Holocaust comments. Once upon a time, they were the model of a united French family, the proud father Jean-Marie posing with his wife Pierrette and his three impossibly blonde daughters outside the family estate near Paris.

 

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