French pop star announces baby not his on Facebook
AFP
PARIS- A 66-year-old French pop star who delivered his first child with his 27-year-old partner unaided at home in December announced on social networking site Facebook on Tuesday that the child was not his.
Michel Polnareff, a singer noted for his striking curly mop of blond hair and big white sunglasses, said that his partner had admitted he was not the father of Volodia who was born at their home in Los Angeles on December 28.
Michel Polnareff
"I'm sorry that we have to share this enormous heartache and this terrible disappointment," wrote the singer, who is a prolific user of Facebook and Twitter to address his fans.
The singer, who was hugely successful from the 1960s to the 1980s, later posted another message saying "that his partner has disappeared with the baby."
"I have no right to him, other than the right to deal with such a lie after nine years of living together," he wrote.
Polnareff first came to fame with the hit song "Le Poupee Qui Fait Non" ("The Doll Who Says No") in 1966 and saw success outside France, moving to the United States in 1973.
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