Who is Patrick Antonelli, the companion of Amel Bent imprisoned for fraud?

Amel Bent has no choice but to be philosophical.

Patrick Antonelli, the man with whom she shares her life, is still caught up in the legal turmoil this week.

Worse, his companion was imprisoned on Tuesday at the Nanterre remand center (Hauts-de-Seine), to serve a fifteen-month prison sentence for fraud, pronounced on March 8 by the Nanterre criminal court.

Having become a sports coach, the forties should have been imprisoned last month.

But the prosecution agreed to postpone his detention because Amel Bent was to give birth.

The two lovebirds met after the end of the third season of the show "Dancing with the stars", in 2012, through the dancer Christophe Licata, who became friends with the singer.

"Without that, my daughters wouldn't be here.

It allowed me to feel good in my head and in my body, ”she explained to the magazine Télé 7 jours.

"And that's why my future husband fell in love with me!"

We got to know each other just after the show 

the singer from the 18th arrondissement had then revealed.

Even among the sleuths of the celebrity press, we agree on the "mysterious" character of the companion of the coach of "The Voice".

One certainty, the driving school boss in Neuilly is a gambler, always impeccably dressed whether during his rare public outings at Roland-Garros, with Amel Bent, or at the Nanterre court, where he is 've seen often in recent years.

“I want to be at the level when we go out with the people she hangs out with”

It is ultimately in court that we learn the most about Patrick Antonelli's career, especially during the 2020 hearing where he was tried for the driving license trafficking case.

Aged 45, he arrived in the Paris region from Marseille, at the age of 17.

He quickly worked in a driving school belonging to a cousin, in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine), then set up on his own seven years later.

The headquarters of his company is still located in this city, although he also worked on the other side of the Seine, in the most prestigious Neuilly, where he ran the Roule driving school.

The first years of his business, business is booming.

According to his own words, he spends lavishly and is not very careful with certain legislations.

This is when he enters a vicious circle.

“In 2013, worries.

Tax audits, fewer registrations for driving school, ”he explained at the time.

This is the moment Cupid chooses to propel Amel Bent into his life.

“I fall in love with her, I have less means, but I want to be at the level when we go out with the people she frequents…” he reveals.

It is in this context that he actively participates - via his driving school - in driving license trafficking, involving television or football stars, such as Ali Baddou and Jérémy Ménez.

"People came to me by word of mouth," he defended himself at the time, denying having used his wife's network to feed his successful business, which brought him nearly a million dollars. million euros.

For the record, Patrick Antonelli had already been remanded in custody in 2016 in connection with this case.

The couple are divorced, but still together

Small important detail, the couple has, in fact, been divorced since 2019, so that Amel Bent and their children are not liable for the sums

to which Patrick Antonelli has been sentenced through several judgments , in particular for tax evasion.

Despite all these legal upheavals, Amel Bent has never denied either his support or his love for the entrepreneur.

"Happy Father's Day to my dad and my loving husband.

You are not perfect.

Nobody is perfect.

If God forgives, then who am I to judge?

Sometimes we do our best but we know it, the best is very often the enemy of the good, ”she wrote on Instagram in June 2020, during the trial of her companion.

In August of the same year, the couple, more united than ever, even got a tattoo

a

“Mr.” and a “Mrs.

on their respective hands, just to show the world the strength of their love story.

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Patrick Antonelli is the man with whom she founded a united and united family - a childhood dream for this little girl who had a very bad experience of her parents' divorce when she was 3 years old.

The couple are parents to three children, Sofia, born February 4, 2016, Hana born October 17, 2017, and a little boy born last April, whose first name has not been revealed.