New book on Johnny Hallyday reveals: ‘Daughter Laura didn’t want the money, just the right to a song’ | celebrities

In Tout le monde l’appelait Johnny, Patrick Roussel talks about the Halliday inheritance issue. His wife Leticia at the time was diametrically opposed to David and Laura Smit, the eldest of her deceased husband’s children. Leticia—along with the two daughters she adopted with Johnny—got his entire estate, and David and Laura fell out.

Laura indicated that she did not want money or villas from her father, but the rights to the song he wrote for her: “Laura”, which was released in 1986. Patrick Russell writes of this: “I never called him ‘Laura’ when I saw her perform on stage. I don’t know why.” , there was an unspoken ban. Johnny himself didn’t mention the song. But Laura talked to me about it. She recently told me, “I don’t care about the rest. At least I have my song. And that’s enough.”

It took until July 2020 to reach a final inheritance agreement. Laura then received not only the rights to her song, but also a chair, a statuette and – according to Le Parisien – a pair of shoes. Her brother David also gave her his share, which is estimated at one million euros. He owns the moral rights to the album “Sang pour sang”, which he composed with his father. Then his lawyer said: “We are very happy with this agreement. We did not ask for anything, so naturally we are not part of it. We said from the beginning that all that mattered was the memory of Johnny and the protection of the sisters.

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