Adriana Karembeu’s husband, André Ohanian, from whom she is in the process of divorcing, filed a complaint on Friday against the ex-model and her companion Marc Lavoine for having, according to him, endangered the security and mental and physical health of their daughter, AFP learned from Mr. Ohanian’s lawyer.
The complaint, with the creation of a civil party, was filed in Paris for “failure to comply with legal obligations compromising the health, safety, morality or education of a minor child”, “corruption of a minor”, “dissemination of pornographic messages likely to be seen or perceived by a minor” and “offenses against drug legislation”. It aims for “all light to be shed on facts likely to harm the protection and best interests of his daughter”, aged seven, Mr. Ohanian’s lawyer, Me Najwa El Haïté, explained to AFP.
On June 23, the Paris prosecutor’s office closed the investigation against Adriana Karembeu for evasion of parental obligations, after a report from her husband made in March and completed in May. The divorce proceedings between the 54-year-old former star model and Mr. Ohanian, married in 2014, are acrimonious.
Discontinuation of a previous complaint
The spouses notably accused each other in turn of having exposed their daughter to content of a sexual nature, via digital media, such as the child’s iPad remaining synchronized with that of a parent or the phone of the other adult with whom the child was playing, according to sources close to the case. “Despite the dismissal” with an outcome “favorable to Ms. Karembeu on all the points examined, Mr. Ohanian chose to continue his legal harassment against the mother of his daughter by initiating new proceedings based on the same allegations,” denounced the ex-model’s lawyers, Maeva Zampori and Nathalie Tomasini, contacted by AFP.
“This new judicial offensive raises questions all the more because it leads to mobilizing, once again, the means of justice for facts already examined, in a context where the courts are facing a chronic overload and where judicial resources should be devoted to cases which really require them,” they added. Stressing that a complaint was going to be filed against Mr. Ohanian for “slanderous denunciation,” Mr. Tomasini told AFP that Mr. Ohanian’s “relentlessness” “psychologically affects the child” and Adriana Karembeu, who “is afraid for her daughter.”
According to her lawyers, “as part of the current divorce proceedings, Ms. Karembeu has already produced evidence establishing that she devoted more time to their daughter than her husband.” Statements that Mr. Ohanian, 71, disputes. The latter’s lawyer emphasizes that “the documents submitted to the debates and numerous certificates demonstrate precisely the opposite” and that the child usually resides in Marrakech with her father, where she goes to school.
