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Serge Gainsbourg museum swimming in debt despite success with visitors

The Serge Gainsbourg museum on Rue de Verneil in Paris, across from the house he lived in for 22 years. © Alexis Raimbault

The Serge Gainsbourg house and museum in Paris has been put into receivership, a kind of bankruptcy, because of alleged financial mismanagement by one of its financial backers. The museum can no longer pay its bills despite sold-out tickets a year after it opened.

The company that runs the Maison Gainsbourg, a museum that includes the building where the pop icon Serge Gainsbourg lived for 22 years, has been put into receivership because it no longer has money to pay its suppliers.

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