Catherine Deneuve was Johnny Hallyday’s secret love, book claims
Johnny Hallyday is still causing sparks between the women in his life.The late star, a notorious womaniser, is at the centre of a love-triangle spat over claims the actor Catherine Deneuve was his lifelong soulmate and a factor in his split with his first wife, the singer Sylvie Vartan.The revelation came as news to the French public, most of whom were unaware of a relationship between the two celebrities – and also, it appears, to Vartan, 75, who described the story as “crazy”.In his new book Lady Lucille, the author Gilles Lhote claims Deneuve became the love of Hallyday’s life after they met in 1961 while filming Les Parisiennes.