While Lagerfeld\u2019s palatial Parisian town house \u2013 one of many homes, including at least three in Paris, one in Rome, a villa in Monte Carlo, and boltholes in New York and Vermont \u2013 was opposite the Louvre, sources reveal that Choupette now resides in the Paris suburbs. Gone too is Choupette\u2019s pampered life of peace and serenity. Now, her housemates are Ca\u00e7ote\u2019s teenage children and her rescue cat, described as \u201cyoung, frisky and a bit common\u201d by a source \u2013 the cat, not the kids. Ca\u00e7ote says she has taken on part-time work to help keep Choupette in some style, but mahogany-table mealtimes are unlikely to be accommodated amid the rough and tumble of teen life with a moggy.<\/p>\n
Of course, Choupette cannot speak for herself \u2013 Lagerfeld once gushed that one of her many attributes, to his mind, was her silence. But her owner also pronounced her dislike of children, as well as other animals, making the stark facts of this new existence a probable endurance test for the Garboesque loner.<\/p>\n
Choupette first arrived in Lagerfeld\u2019s life in 2011 as a four-month-old kitten, when Giabiconi asked him to catsit. The designer fell in love and simply refused to give her back. It\u2019s said he even turned his white apartment black so no one would ever sit on her.<\/p>\n
From then on, Lagerfeld\u2019s devotion was unerring. Choupette\u2019s first public image caught her standing next to a full bubble bath under a vase of roses. By 2013, the two of them had featured on a Harper\u2019s Bazaar cover. He was even cremated with a piece of aquamarine jewellery in the animal\u2019s likeness.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Choupette is still singing for her supper, and her lucrative career continues, despite her advancing years. She has an agent, Lucas B\u00e9rullier, and a recent marketing campaign \u2013 thought to have earned her the equivalent of around \u00a3100,000 \u2013 was for her own range of cat items with Maisons du Monde, the French furniture multinational.<\/p>\n
There have been premium jobs for Choupette post-Lagerfeld \u2013 a photo shoot with Naomi Campbell for Vogue with Annie Leibovitz, as well as a starring role alongside Kim Kardashian promoting the 2023 Lagerfeld-themed Met Ball. Reportedly, the ladies didn\u2019t get on. When Kardashian tried to hold her, Choupette lashed out towards her face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, other jobs have become a little less starry. \u201cLet\u2019s be honest, we can\u2019t ask [for] millions for a post or a shoot,\u201d B\u00e9rullier told The Atlantic, confessing that people were originally paying for Lagerfeld\u2019s name and input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Lagerfeld\u2019s palatial Parisian town house \u2013 one of many homes, including at least three in Paris, one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19699,5123,133084,156,18262,7518,111,43,139,69,234955,1177,162728],"class_list":["post-463558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cats","tag-celebrity-news","tag-daily-features","tag-entertainment","tag-inheritance-tax","tag-karl-lagerfeld","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-other-features","tag-standard","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}