Sad news shared by his relatives in the columns of Figaro. The wife of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor died on June 24, 2023 at the age of 81. “Patrick, her husband, Dorothée, Arnaud, Morgane, her children, Tiphaine, Solenn, Garance, her missing children, François, Gwénaëlle, Tristan, Maël, Jeremy, Joachim, Alexandre, Charles, Blanche, her grandchildren, Nino and Alba, her great-grandchildren, have the immense sadness to announce the death of Véronique Poivre d’Arvor, which occurred on June 24, 2023 in Neuilly-sur-Seine”, can we read in the pages of our colleagues.
Her funeral took place on June 29 in Trégastel in the Côtes-d’Armor where “she now rests”.
The journalist becomes a father for the first time at the age of 16 of a girl named Dorothée with his wife Véronique Courcoux. “I was quickly made to understand that it was still not so good. At the time, the majority was at 21, so when you have a child at 16… The mother was five years older than me, but still, that didn’t excuse everything. I was rather happy”, he confided in the program La Parenthèse Inattendue in March 2014. Nine years later, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor married the teacher who will become a stay-at-home mom. In total, the two lovebirds will become parents no less than six times: Dorothée, born in 1963, Arnaud, born in 1972, Tiphaine, born in 1974 and died in 1975, Solenn, born in 1975 and died following an attempt of suicide, Garance, stillborn in 1980 and Morgane, born in 1981.
Along with his married life, the presenter would have had a love affair in the 2000s with a journalist named Claire Castillon. Their relationship reportedly lasted nearly three years. A relationship that the star revealed in the pages of his book The Death of Don Juan.
A relationship passed over in silence. On April 29, 1995, Claire Chazal gave birth to her first child, a boy named François. The latter is the fruit of a love affair between Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and his colleague Claire Chazal. While he is married to Véronique Courcoux, the presenter of the JT of TF1 will not reveal his paternity publicly until 2005 in his book Confessions.
Asked about her son in the columns of VSD in 2006, PPDA said: “François always hated his parents’ hyper-exposure. It is certain that at one point, like many teenagers, he wanted to cut the cord and he did it by going very far. First to New Zealand, then to London and now to Hong Kong. He withdrew from the light, completely. He never agreed to be photographed or to answer interviews and I can understand that”.
Between 2007 and 2008, the presenter Patrick Poivre d’Arvor would have had a romantic relationship with a columnist named Agathe Borne. The two lovebirds would have met during a Roland Garros tournament. A romance that ends in surprising circumstances.
In 2009, the young woman decided to file a complaint against her ex-companion for “invasion of privacy” because of the release of her book Fragments of a Lost Woman, published in 2009. In 2011, the journalist was sentenced to pay him 33,000 euros and publish a press release in two newspapers summarizing his conviction. Any reprinting or republication of his book has also been prohibited.