Benjamin Griveaux and the sextape scandal: his goodbye to politics
A career that will not have done long fire ...
A career that will not have long fire ... Following the controversy of last year regarding the diffusion of intimate videos on the web, which you surely heard about, the member Benjamin Griveaux has gradually retired policies and also gave up his ambition to become mayor of Paris.
The scandal that ruined his career
This scandal, revealed by Piotr Pavlennelski, activist and companion of Alexandra de Taddeo, unveiled the intimate relationship of the latter with Benjamin Griveaux. Victim of threats and favorite target of anti-macron, this father of three children told having suffered unfairly "ignoble attacks". A shot of grace that has completed an already chaotic political campaign.
His goodbye to politics
A new reboundation occurred when, mid-May, the government's former spokesperson announced his decision to leave his current position, wishing to start a new chapter. In a message addressed to his walkers, he states that he wants to devote himself to an entrepreneurial project that consists of the creation of a"Consulting firm to support business leaders in their strategic choices", According to the Challenges newspaper. As the next legislative elections being scheduled next year, its deputy headquarters will not be replaced. Benjamin Griveaux also reaffirmed his commitment and fidelity to Macron. Former Secretary of State with the Minister of Economy and Finance wrote about his Facebook profile"I remain faithful to the project of transformation from our country initiated in 2017 [...] I will always be at your side, but differently, in the battles that are offered. »
The precious support of his wife, counsel Julia Minkowski
On the private life, Benjamin Griveaux was enormously supported by his wife, his best lawyer (it is his job!). Julia Minkowski was indeed a real ally for her husband, the defending body and soul during this crisis."He's nice, not selfish, ambitious, but taking pleasure in what he does" explained the lawyer in an interview with liberation. When promoting his bookThe lawyer was a woman, when answering the unavoidable questions about this case of intimate videos recorded since the phone of her husband, she said:"Hypocrisy would be to believe that in a couple we do not know any turbulence and that because we would encounter a crisis, we should necessarily separate"Before adding:"We managed that banally, but because we have always managed public life, privacy and political life (...) normally. Today, we are well ".Nearly a year after the storm, so the couple seems to have found calm ... Julia Minkowski even declared more recently for the magazine she sometimes had to know how to turn off television and ignore social networks to break up and take a step back :"From the outside, this episode, with its media and political dimension, has appeared extraordinary, even surreal. But, inside, things happened in a rather banal way "She entrusted female magazine. Finally, the criminal lawyer even said:"He made his family pass first, he wanted to protect us. This choice confirmed everything I thought of him. » A beloved and lucky man despite everything!
