[1] Lisa Azuelos is the daughter of French singer and actress Marie Laforêt and of Judas Azuelos, a Moroccan Jew of Sephardic descent.

Her mother kept her and sent her with her brother to a Swiss boarding school, "Les Sept Nains", where children were allegedly maltreated physically and mentally.

[2] Afterwards the two siblings were sent to live with someone in a small village in the department of Sarthe.

Lisa Azuelos was introduced to her future husband, film producer Patrick Alessandrin, by Luc Besson.

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