Johnny Hallyday: Why David Hallyday Actually Renounced His Father’s Inheritance

In his book, Boss’s lawyerMaître Jacques Verrecchia, Johnny’s lawyer for over twenty years, returned to the war of succession that tore the family apart. He took the opportunity to reveal the reasons why David Hallyday had finally renounced the inheritance.

Rarely has a war over inheritance caused so much ink to flow.In February 2018, two months after Johnny Hallyday’s death, Laura Smet, his eldest daughter, published in Le Figaro an open letter in which she addressed her father, dropping several bombshells. The most important: David Hallyday, her older brother, and she were completely disinherited from the Boss’s will.. What followed was an open war lasting several years for Johnny’s succession, while Laeticia Hallyday claimed in the media that her husband had wanted to protect his younger daughters, Jade and Joy, after having made numerous donations to his eldest children during his lifetime.

It was in court that the conflict between Laeticia Hallyday, David Hallyday and Laura Smet was settled, who subsequently admitted to having suffered greatly from this family conflict.I was roped into a story that was unlike me and that gave me an image that was light years away from who I am.. This is the first time I have experienced such a misunderstanding.“, she confided in the columns of ELLE, in July 2023.

David Hallyday had renounced his father’s inheritance in favor of his three sisters

In addition to a nice check, Laura Smet had finally obtained, at the end of the inheritance war, some objects that had belonged to her father but also the full rights to the song Laura. David, for his part, had decided to give up everything, “whether it be financially or patrimonially“, as his lawyer Pierre-Jean Douvier had announced in the media. At the time, his lawyer had also stated that David Hallyday wanted, through this decision, to protect his three sisters, but also “devote oneself entirely to one’s familyhis passion for music, his future projects and two causes that have been dear to him for a long time: animal protection and environmental protection.”

Master Jacques Verrecchia, Johnny’s lawyer for more than two decades, returned to the rocker’s estatein his book, Boss’s lawyerto be published on June 3, he states that David Hallyday had also renounced the succession “when potential tax debts were made public to all beneficiaries“The 57-year-old singer, who has otherwise had a very successful life independently of his father, saw fit to prioritize his sisters.