On Wednesday, January 24, France Bleu reported that the tennis champion has filed for divorce against his wife, Marie-Benedict Hurrell, whom he accuses of blackmail, humiliation and insult.
Three years of marriage and a home in Anglet, purchased in 2014; Amelie Mauresmo and his wife Marie-Benedicte Hurrell seemed to be perfectly in love until now. Since then, the marriage dream has turned into a nightmare. The tennis champion did file for divorce in 2023. Before filing a complaint against his wife, whom he accuses of harassment, France Bleu revealed on Wednesday January 24th.
The Roland-Garros tournament director, who is also the mother of two children, a son named Aaron, born in 2015, and a daughter, named Ayla, born in 2017, from her previous relationship with Pascal Arribe, became a civil party in closed proceedings. doors, which took place on Tuesday, January 23, in front of the Correctional Chamber of the Bayonne Court of Justice. During the hearing, The 44-year-old former tennis star said she was “living through hell” every day. Under the question mark? The numerous humiliations, blackmail and insults, including through SMS, to which the woman would be subjected.
A new companion
So much so that Amelie Mauresmo sometimes sought refuge with her new companion, a “surfer from Biarritz,” France Bleu revealed. The former tennis player was also given ten days of total disability. Marie-Benedicte Hurrell, in turn, was arrested at the Biarritz police station in September 2023. Three months later, the trial took place behind closed doors “due to facts that belong to the private sector and to a public figure. Amelie Mauresmo,” explained her attorney, Mae Laurie Delpont.
Denial of Marie-Benedict Hurrell
For her part, Marie-Benedict Hurrell categorically denies the facts. “The disputed text messages are not harassment at all, but a simple discussion about day-to-day management,” emphasized Thierry Sagardoito, the 60-year-old’s lawyer. “No one has heard such comments,” he added of the alleged insults condemned by Amelie Mauresmo.
The lawyer also regretted the “instrumentation of an artificial complaint in the prospect of divorce”. Thus, the defense asked for Marie-Benedict Hurrell’s acquittal plain and simple. At the end of the three-hour court session, the prosecution demanded a ten-month suspended sentence. It was also decided that the verdict will be published on February 13.
Source: Le Figaro
