[4] During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a member of a French press organization that focused on music halls, the circus, dance and the arts.

From 1982 to 1986, his telephone conversations with writer Jean-Edern Hallier were monitored as part of illegal wiretaps conducted during the presidency of François Mitterrand.

[5] In the late 1980s, he served as vice president of Amiic, a Geneva-based real estate investment organization.

[13] In October 2016, after dedicating a book about Jean-Edern Hallier to "the youth native from Euroland, zone F, the victim of an old criminal political ruling class", he denounced in an interview "the French crime, committed by a political class, from the left as from the right".

[14] In 2020, his wife, Monique, ran as a candidate in Châtellerault's[15] municipal elections with support from La République en Marche.