At 75, Gérard Lanvin has found his balance between France and Morocco. According to the magazine’s revelations Gala, the actor, marked by a personal tragedy, found his happiness by acquiring a sublime villa in Marrakech in which he lives with his long-time wife Jennifer. In October 2024, he opened the doors to his privacy in the pages of House Journaldescribing its property as a “paradise house, surrounded by magnificent grounds” with a large vegetable garden and chickens.
Far from the tumult and spotlight of French cinema, Gérard Lanvin leads an existence of great simplicity under the Moroccan sun. His daily life is now shared between the maintenance of his vegetable garden, his chickens and long walks. “There, our house with land, a vegetable garden and chickens is worth the price of a 2 m² apartment in Paris. People smile. I like the smells, cycling in the countryside and the sun is good for my morale, my skin, as well as my knees and shoulders, where I’m starting to hurt. Normal, 71 brushes! HAS”he explained to the magazine Télé Star.
Installé entre Paris et Marrakech, Gérard Lanvin répond to accusations of tax exile
However, this tranquility of life has sometimes been marred by accusations of tax exile. Guest on the set of the show 8:30 p.m. Sunday on France 2, Gérard Lanvin had firmly set the record straight On time ahead of Laurent Delahousse. HAS” I was told that I was opening my mouth while living in Morocco and not paying taxes. I don’t live in Morocco, I live between Morocco and France because we need heat, we are people from the south. When I work, I am in France, so I pay my taxes in France »he declared.
More recently, in May 2025, he drove the point home TV Magazine : “All the money we give to taxes in France is useless. Those who accuse me of living in Morocco to avoid paying taxes are idiots. I rent my house, I don’t have a business, I have nothing, I’m a film actor, I take my money, I divide it in two, I leave some in France and I bring the rest home. I read on the internet that I was a billionaire. How can I be if I work once every year and a half? We’re not paid like Brad Pitt ».
Who is Jennifer, the woman with whom he has lived for 40 years, and mother of his children, Manu and Léo?
Far from rumors and criticism, Gérard Lanvin is enjoying the Marrakech sun with his wife Jenifer. Since 1984, he has shared his life with Chantal Benoist, her real name, a former model and ex-disco singer famous for her songs. Do It For Me et I Lost A Dream. Their love has lasted for over forty years. “When you’re good with someone, why bother going through life looking for someone else? He’s someone you don’t want to disappoint.”he confided in Paris Match. From their story was born a magnificent family.
The eldest, Emmanuel (known as Manu) Lanvin, born from Jennifer’s previous relationship in 1973 and officially adopted by the actor at the age of 5, is today an accomplished singer-songwriter and producer of blues-rock, having notably collaborated with Johnny Hallyday and Calvin Russell. The youngest, Léo Lanvin, has forged a solid international reputation as a DJ under the pseudonym Saint-Lanvain, mixing his electro sets from the Dominican Republic to… Morocco!
