Jean-Paul Guerlain’s life partner Christina Cragg Mikkelsen has been given a four-month suspended prison sentence for assaulting the 86-year-old French perfumer, a source familiar with the case said on Monday. A court (west of Paris) had previously acquitted her. In October 2021, Christina Krag Mikkelsen, who was originally on trial for “negligence of a person unable to defend himself.”
One of the doctors noticed signs of inflammation caused by lack of proper care in Guerlain, who suffers from involuntary urination. The court indicated that Christine interfered with Guerlain’s care, but that interference was not negligence punishable by law.
The prosecutor’s office appealed against the decision of the Court of Versailles, and Christina was tried again in the Court of Appeal, but this time on charges of “intentional violence.” A 64-year-old French woman was convicted Thursday of “moral harassment” against a former housekeeper who worked for Jean-Paul Guerlain.
A legal battle ensues between Christine and Stéphane Guerlain, son of Jean-Paul Guerlain, as Stéphane accuses her of exploiting his father, one of the richest in France who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Cristina’s lawyer Frederic Bello commented that the sentence against her was “very harsh and based solely on the statements of the two guardians who are paid by Stéphane Guerlain”.
As for the lawyer for the perfumer’s son Pascal Korver, he said: “Stefan Guerlain is relieved that the facts have become known as they were, and he, in turn, has been acquitted of all the charges brought against him by Christine. to answer the lawsuit he filed against her.” In June, the Criminal Court of Versailles acquitted Stéphane Guerlain, whom his father’s life partner accused of waging a “war of harassment” and several threats to her.
The first meeting between Christina Cragg Mikkelsen and Jean-Paul Guerlain took place in 2005. The duo tried to get married, but the court annulled the engagement contract at the request of their son Jean-Paul on the grounds that the famous perfumer was not in a state authorized to consent to the marriage.
