If Bernard Arnault’s family were a TV show, last weekend would have been the midseason twist: the 77-year-old LVMH chairman joined X for the first time in his life—not to sell handbags, but to insist his five children aren’t fighting over who inherits his empire.
The occasion was the conclusion of Le Monde‘s six-part investigation by French journalists Raphaëlle Bacqué and Vanessa Schneider, capped by a final installment alleging a deep rivalry to succeed Arnault among his children Delphine, and Antoine, from his first marriage, and Alexandre, Frédéric, and Jean, from his second.
