She may have “closed the shop” today with men but Amanda Lear has had a busy love life in the past! The general public forgot her but she was married very early, allowing her to change her identity.
Many mysteries surround, still today, the life of the singer and actress Amanda Lear … The fabulous interpreter of the disco tube Follow me For example, maintains the vagueness about its origins … She would have been born under the name of Amanda Tapp. Where? Hong Kong or Saigon, doubt persists. Anyway, she’s officially called Amanda Lear since the 1960s and her marriage to a man who has fallen into the forgotten of his media history …
This first marriage which allowed Amanda Lear to adopt another identity
It’s well known, Amanda Lear likes the male gender. The fascinating blonde has chained connections with figures as famous as it is enigmatic. Sometimes in the arms of the English singer David Bowie, sometimes in the wake of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí of whom she was the muse … A flamboyant sentimental journey, which nevertheless overshadowed a founding story: that of her very first husband. A discreet but decisive romance, which allows her to carry her famous surname with which she had a career.
In the mid -1960s, the future Disco star was not yet a diva and sported as Amanda Tapp name. She was still unknown to the general public. At the time, she studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and, one evening, she met a certain Morgan Paul Lear in an English pub. He was an architect, was 20 years old, and the current went well between these two young people. They got married on December 11, 1965, and Amanda Tapp then became Amanda Lear. A name that she will never leave again. The husband? Disappeared from radars after that …
Amanda Lear remarried and become widowed …
Amanda Lear, whose official age had been revealed by Releasewas married a second time. Indeed, she married in 1979, in Las Vegas, Alain-Philippe Malagnac, a businessman, art collector and musical producer … presented as the lover of the writer Roger Peyrefitte. The companionship between Amanda and her second husband will last two decades before a terrible drama.
During the night of December 15 to 16, 2000, a fire ravaged the Provencal Mas of Saint-Étienne-du-Grès, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, where the couple lived. The house is then completely destroyed, and Alain-Philippe Malagnac loses his life there.
Collapsed, Amanda Lear had then entrusted to Parisian : “I’m not well. I take antidepressants (…) I cannot turn the page as long as the house is not completely rebuilt. It is as if I had a huge thorn in the foot that prevents me from moving forward. “ Since then, the star still lives in a villa in Provence and after a story of a few years with a beautiful Italian, she has no longer had long relationships.