Overview
- Jordan Bardella confirmed he is dating Maria Carolina de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles, the designated heir of the non-reigning Bourbon-Two Sicilies house since a 2016 succession change.
- Family lawyers have filed a defamation complaint over recent media coverage, VSD reports, calling a Vanity Fair investigation and a Belgian article false and aimed at hurting Bardella by proxy.
- Reporting revisits claims that part of the family fortune traces to Camillo Crociani, an industrialist linked in 1970s press accounts to the Lockheed bribery scandals, with assets later placed in offshore trusts.
- A long-running inheritance fight between sisters over artworks and assets included allegations of diverted wealth of about $600 million, according to coverage citing court filings and reporting.
- The Royal Court of Jersey in 2021 found parts of Cristiana Crociani’s case well-founded and ordered Camilla de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles to pay €2.3 million or face 12 months in prison for contempt of court.