When Johnny Hallyday railed against the taxes… and bought a yacht ! – Gala

Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday was reluctant to pay his taxes. On the other hand, he was leading a train of flamboyant life. The photographer mythical 1960s remembers an anecdote uplifting…

Johnny Hallyday was a big-time gambler. The rocker spent as much – or even more – that he won, his lavish lifestyle has led him to make purchases sometimes freakish. However, he has always been reluctant to pay his taxes. Jean-Marie Périer, the photographer of mythical 1960s, remembers to Serengo of an anecdote dating back to the 1980s, revealing its reluctance to pay off his debts to the tax authorities. The professional found the Taulier, already stumbling around in a bar.

The star sits down, his friend offers him a drink. “And there he left in an angry infernal on the taxes that bite at all. I answer him that I do not understand, given that Phillips comes to pay him a million rights, ” explains Jean-Marie Périer, reminding him that he has just offered a boat… 800 000 euros. “I need to go on the sea”, replied Johnny Hallyday. “That was Johnny, pure poetry. I loved it “, remembers the photographer.

The rocker and the tax authorities, it is a great story. It rusait to escape, preferring to settle at the end of the world, rather than having to pay taxes. A little game that earned him, in the 1970s, a conviction to a ten-month suspended prison sentence and 20,000 swiss franc fine, according to les Inrocks.

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Johnny Hallyday

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