When champagne patriarch Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger joked that he was paid to drink, eat and make love, little did he imagine those exploits would embroil him in a court case against an ex-mistress who pursued him with a knife and threatened to cut off his penis.
At the end of August, Samira L, 48, was given a suspended one-year prison sentence for chasing him with the weapon outside the family home in Rheims, making death threats and harassing him. She also harassed his wife Claire, 76, daughter Vitalie, the current boss of the champagne house, and another alleged mistress.
