pioneer of the twist in France (he has more than six hundred recorded titles and more than fifty million records sold), would have been 87 years old this Monday, January 13, 2025. He is a reminder. A death poorly digested by Xavier, one of his sons, famous for having been part of the show Queer, 4 experts dans le vent broadcast at the time on TF1.
“My father spent a few days dying in a coma, at home in his house. During those three days, This lady did not see fit to warn her children, my father’s children. And then, I learned of my father’s death through Facebook. There are other ways to prevent….”, the latter declared at the microphone of RTL.
Xavier blamed his father’s last companion, Élisabeth Cruchet, for having, in a certain way, . “At a difficult end of the month, she was always able to find our telephone number to complete the tax bill, electricity bill or the mechanic’s bill. There, my father spent three days in a coma. She doesn’t call us”, he added.
Richard Anthony, his widow’s response to his sons Xavier and Cédric
Note that he was also notified late: “Of course, I am in Manila and it took me twenty hours to return to Paris, but my brother was in Paris, it took him an hour to get to his father’s bedside. My father died at 11 p.m. and the next day at 11 a.m., so twelve hours later, my brother received a text which was part of a group message to some friends which contained this wonderful message: ‘Richard dcd’, in three letters, in SMS language… A shock for my brother.”
A story that did not end there because the widow of the singerAnd I hear the train whistle came to give her version during an interview. “Are you talking about the ones we hear in the media and never see at home? The only ones who cared about their father were his first three children (Nathalie, Jérôme and Joanne, editor’s note)! The others never heard from me!”
Remember that Richard Anthony, who experienced some setbacks with the French tax authorities, was notably penalized by his numerous alimony payments during his life, he who was in a relationship with four women and had eleven children.
