Patrick Bruel: singer, actor, investor… how much is his fortune?

For several weeks, Patrick Bruel has been talked about for his behavior towards women. In the pages of Mediapart and of ELLEthere are around thirty of them who testified for accuse him of rape and sexual assault. Among them is Daniela Elstner, director of Unifrance, who denounced a sexual assault and an attempted rape during the French Film Festival in Acapulco, Mexico, in November 1997. She filed a complaint in March, less in “a desire for judicial condemnation than a need for liberation, for her, and for all the others”as explained by his lawyer, Jade Dousselin.

Flavie Flament has also filed a complaint for a rape that she claims to have suffered at the singer’s Parisian home in 1991, when she was 16 years old. Investigations are underway in France and Belgium. At this stage, Patrick Bruel disputes all the accusations and claims not to have “never forced a woman”is “drugged, manipulated or sought to subjugate anyone”. He indicated that he wanted to continue doing his job and performs every evening in a Parisian theater, before his tour which will begin on June 16.

Patrick Bruel multimillionaire: what would be the amount of his fortune?

Patrick Bruel became a real star around the 1990s with his album So lookwhich triggered the famous “Bruelmania” in France. Parallel to his career as a singer, he pursued a career as an actor, in cinema and theater. Over the years, Above all, he has built a real strategy for diversifying his income. A professional poker player, he is said to have pocketed approximately $1.7 million in live tournament winnings during his career. He is also one of the four shareholders of the Winamax site, alongside Marc Simoncini, Alexandre Roos and Christophe Schaming. According to Incomethe gradual resale of its shares would have allowed it to pocket between 2018 and 2021 around 87 million euros.

He is also developing the Leos estate, in Vaucluse, around premium olive oil, cosmetics and the hotel industry. Via his private group, he has also invested in several companies. “According to the most serious estimates, his overall fortune today is between 35 and 55 million eurossome broader scenarios going up to around 60 million depending on asset valuations”précise Income. An impressive financial success which makes him one of the wealthiest French artists of his generation.

Will Patrick Bruel go on tour?

Despite the numerous complaints against him, Patrick Bruel still plans to go on tour. Three of his concerts planned for the end of the year in Quebec were nevertheless canceled. In France, several political figures as well as associations have called on him not to perform on stage. The mayor of Vaison-la-Romaine, as well as several festival directors, indicated that canceling Patrick Bruel’s visit themselves would expose them to very heavy costs which they would not be able to cover. “We come to hope that it is he who takes the lead and withdraws“declared one of them to RTL. It now remains to be seen whether media and legal pressure will have a lasting impact on the artist’s career and projects.