It is August 5, 1996. Daniel Ducruet, then husband of Estefanía de Monaco, arrives at a luxurious villa in Cap de Villefranche, just five kilometers from Nice and 15 from Monte-Carlo. There awaits a Belgian stripper, Fili Houteman, whom he has known a few days before on the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, in Belgium. What happens next is the story of the couché paper and European royalty, a scandal that now turns 30 years old. The princess’s husba…
It is August 5, 1996. Daniel Ducruet, then husband of Estefanía de Monaco, arrives at a luxurious villa in Cap de Villefranche, just five kilometers from Nice and 15 from Monte-Carlo. There awaits a Belgian stripper, Fili Houteman, whom he has known a few days before on the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, in Belgium. What happens next is the story of the couché paper and European royalty, a scandal that now turns 30 years old. The princess’s husba…