[1] Her mother later remarried to her second husband, François Gallo Poto, a cousin of the Antoinette Gbetigbia Gogbe Yetene (d. 1977), first wife of Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire.

[1] Sassou Nguesso's mother, who became known as Mama Poto Galo, died in January 2005 and was buried in Gombe Cemetery in Kinshasa in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

[4] The first lady routinely travels with her personal hairdresser, the Brazzaville-based stylist Amédée Ebono, on all official trips.

As of 2017[update] Sassou Nguesso's family remained the subject of several legal and financial investigations in the U.S. and France.

[3] The French Ministry of Justice seized a real estate complex located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris that had been purchased in Antoinette Sassou Nguesso's name.