The French know how to do a scandal right

Sacre bleu!

January 18, 2011 at 6:07PM

Why, oh why, can't we have scandals like the French? Here's a story about a famous Gallic TV anchor:

Given that PPDA also faked an interview with Castro and went to jail for receiving embezzled money, there's a fightin' chance he may have, er, borrowed someone else's Papa bio. He denies copying the passages. You read that right: he denies he copied the 100 pages that appear in his book. One. Hundred. Pages. This takes some gall, no pun intended; it's possible to say you forgot to footnote a paragraph or two, and a formatting error made it seem like part of your text instead of an indented quote, but unless he can prove he went back in time and dictated those 100 pages to the author, good luck.

Here's the girlfriend. It's one of those May-Sepulcher relationships.

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