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December 28, 2017

French Count Sues to Stop Former Porn Star's Bubbly Endorsement

LILLE, France—Clara Morgane is a French cabaret singer and television personality who started her career in the entertainment industry by performing in pornographic films. But though Morgane’s porn career was brief, with almost all of her videos shot and released in 2001 and 2002, it was apparently more than long enough to raise the ire of a French aristocrat whose ancestors created a well-known brand of champagne. The Charles de Cazanove label was sold to the Moët-Hennessy Group in 1983, 172 years after the de Cazanove family founded the popular bubbly brand. The brand has since changed hands again, most recently in 2004.  The current owners are now marketing a special pink variety of the Charles de Cazanove champagne—labeled “Champagne by Clara Morgane.” The limited edition beverage retails for approximately $60 per bottle. Morgane is currently promoting the brand with a series of slightly suggestive but otherwise SFW shots on her Instagram page. But despite the fact that his family sold their company almost 35 years ago, and Morgane has not done porn for almost 16 years herself, a French count descended from the original de Cazanove champagne-makers has filed a lawsuit against the current owners of his family’s erstwhile firm, claiming that the association of his family name with a retired porn performer is “scandalous.” The case is scheduled to go before a court in Lille, France, on January 9, with a lawyer for Count Loïc Chiroussot de Bigault de Cazanove arguing that it doesn’t matter that his client’s family sold the company decades ago, “the family name constitutes a inalienable right of the individual.” “My ancestors are in tears,” the count said in a recent radio interview. “I am from a great family of French nobles that distinguished itself in the Resistance. Associating this brand with a person who has made pornographic films is a bit of an outrage.” The aristocrat added that his ancestors, who were granted their hereditary title by legendary 13th-century French King Louis IX, would be “turning in their graves” if they knew that their name was now associated with porn. Morgane—who received a Hot D’or, a French equivalent of an AVN Award, for Best French Starlet in 2001—also issued a statement, in effect telling the count that he’s out of luck. “This gentleman ... should have asked the question of the will of his ancestors before the sale of their name and that, a long time ago,” she said in the statement. “I imagine that his little anger prevented him from tasting our delicious nectar. I propose to send him a bottle so that he can have a good time of liberating emotion.” Photo credit: JEY OLIVIER/ PCM

 
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