The Summer of Betrayal for Stéphanie of Monaco: 30 years of Daniel Ducruet's sex scandal that shook Monaco and went around the world
The former bodyguard starred in some compromising images, which were sold for thousands of euros, with a Belgian stripper, whom he has described for three decades as a "trap" caused by drugs.
It's August 5, 1996. Daniel Ducruet, then husband of Stéphanie of Monaco, arrives at a luxurious villa in Cap de Villefranche, just five kilometers from Nice and 15 from Monte Carlo. A Belgian stripper, Fili Houteman, is waiting for him, someone he met a few days earlier on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. What happens next is the stuff of tabloid history and European royalty, a scandal that is now 30 years old.
The princess's husband was not only unfaithful, but his betrayal was captured in a pornographic scene by a photographer who was waiting attentively for it to happen. He was unaware that his infidelity was being captured, but the world found out a few weeks later. At the end of August, Italian magazines Eva Tremila and Gente published the images; in Spain, Interviú shared them. The controversy was served and divorce was already cooking in Monaco.
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