Princess Stéphanie of Monaco

She has a glamorous lifestyle and has been involved in several affairs in her life. She dated many celebrities such as race car driver Paul Belmondo, Anthony Delon, a French-American actor and Rob Lowe, the Hollywood star.

In 1992, she began a relationship with her bodyguard, Daniel Ducruet. The couple had two children; Louis Robert Paul Ducruet in 1992 and Pauline Grace Magui Ducruet in 1994. The couple married in 1995 but got divorced the following year when Daniel was found in a compromising situation with another woman.

In 1998, she gave birth to her third child; a girl, Camille Marie Kelly Gottlieb, in Monaco. Although she never revealed the identity of Camille’s father, it has been rumored that he is Jean Raymond Gottlieb, another bodyguard.

She was born on February 1, 1965, in Monaco to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and his wife, Grace Kelly, the renowned Hollywood actress. She is the youngest of the couple’s three children and has two older siblings Caroline and Albert II.

She received her early education from the Dames de Saint-Maur in Monaco, and then attended the Dupanloup in Paris, France where she also developed interest in gymnastics, a field in which she excelled. In 1978 and 1979, she became the patron of the Grand Prix de Gymnastique de la Ville de Paris.

On 13 September 1982, while returning home from their farm in Rocagel, France, she and her mother had a car accident. Her mother, Grace, after suffering a stroke lost control of the car and drove off the steep, winding road, crashing down the mountainside. Her mother died the next day while she sustained a hairline fracture of a neck vertebra. She remained deeply affected by this loss for a long time in her life.

After her physical recovery from the accident which killed her mother, she took an internship at the Haute Couture firm of Christian Dior, under the direction of designer Marc Bohan in 1983. The following year, she debuted as a model on the biannual haute couture special published by Spanish magazine ‘¡Hola!’.

In 1985, she appeared on the cover of ‘German Vogue’ and the American edition of ‘Vanity Fair’.

In 1986, she launched a swimwear line ‘Pool Position’ with Alix de la Comble, whom she had met during her internship.

In 1986, she self-produced and released her first single with the French label ‘Carrere’, under the production of Yves Roze. The song ‘Ouragan’ and its English version ‘Irresistible’ were both international hits. Another single ‘Flash’, as well as its English version ‘One Love to Give’, also achieved success throughout Europe.

In 1992, she recorded ‘In the Closet’ with Michael Jackson for his album ‘Dangerous’. The song became a worldwide hit and reached the top ten in the United States.

In 2005, she was honored by the H.S.H. Prince Albert II with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the ‘Order of Grimaldi’ for her involvement in humanitarian actions.