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Jack Lang IMA, J. Demarigny

Former Minister of Culture Jack Lang was offered 200,000 euros in costumes Smalto, the dressmaker of the French football team, between 2013 and 2018. Information revealed this Friday by the weekly L ' Obs .

Jack Lang seems to like luxury and therefore expensive clothes. According to the invoices unveiled by the magazine L'Obs , the former Minister of Culture would have ordered for example in February 2017, two suits and two pants for the tidy sum of 9,500 euros. A few months later, the current president of the Arab World Institute (IMA) orders again for 8,500 euros of costumes.

In all, the score is almost 200,000 euros. It is actually gifts, because it is the boss of Smalto of the time that settles the note for him. Alain Duménil, who has also experienced problems with justice, would have paid most of the bills on his own money, because Jack Lang represents for him, according to his lawyer, a man of fashion and elegance known in the world. whole world.

Gifts made by pure friendship according to her lawyer and without any return. He's a good ambassador for the brand, he says.

Jack Lang's attorney confirms that the former minister was offered suits and trousers by Smalto. According to him, his client would never have received "any bill to settle" from the tailor. " There has never been a single counterpart, " he adds.