NAMES IN THE NEWS : Duvalier Moves to Roomier Digs
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has moved out of the luxury villa on the Cote d’Azur that has been his exile home for four years to more spacious quarters a few miles away, sources said Monday.
Duvalier’s new residence in Vallauris has tennis courts and a swimming pool, and is closer to the Mediterranean than the villa in Mougins, where he had lived since June, 1986. It is owned by an Ivory Coast diplomat, said sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Duvalier reportedly will pay a yearly rent of about $145,000.
Duvalier, 38, lives with his wife, Michelle, and their two children, Nicolas, 8, and Anya, 4. They arrived in France on Feb. 7, 1986, after being forced to flee Haiti.
The Haitian government has pressed charges against Duvalier, saying he absconded with $120 million of the nation’s money.
The French government originally said Duvalier could stay one week. But no other country would accept him, and he has remained in France with no clear status.
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