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Aurélie Filippetti | |
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| Member of theNational Assembly forMoselle's 1st constituency | |
| In office 27 September 2014 – 20 June 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Gérard Terrier |
| Succeeded by | Belkhir Belhaddad |
| French Minister of Culture and Communications | |
| In office 16 May 2012 – 26 August 2014 | |
| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Marc Ayrault Manuel Valls |
| Preceded by | Frédéric Mitterrand |
| Succeeded by | Fleur Pellerin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1973-06-17)17 June 1973 (age 52) Villerupt, France |
| Political party | The Greens (1999–2006) Socialist Party (2006–2018) Génération.s (2018–present) |
| Domestic partner(s) | Frédéric de Saint-Sernin Arnaud Montebourg |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines |
Aurélie Filippetti (French pronunciation:[ɔʁelifilipɛti]; born 17 June 1973) is aFrench politician and novelist. She served asFrench Minister of Culture and Communications from 2012 until 2014, first in the government ofJean-Marc Ayrault and then in the government ofManuel Valls.[1]
Filippetti is of Italian descent and her family originates fromGualdo Tadino,Umbria.[2] She is an alumna of the eliteÉcole normale supérieure de Fontenay–Saint-Cloud, she received anagrégation in Classic Literature.
Filippetti's first novelLes derniers jours de la classe Ouvrière (The Last Days of the Working Class), published byStock in 2003, has been translated into several languages. In 2003, Filippetti wrote the script for the theatre productionFragments d'humanité.
Filippetti was a delegate of theFrench Greens for the Paris municipality and acted as the technical adviser for theMinister of the Environment,Yves Cochet, from 2001 to 2002.
From 2007 until 2012, Filippetti was a member of theNational Assembly of France, representing theMoselledépartement. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs (2007-2008), the Committee on Legal Affairs (2008-2010) and the Finance Committee (2010-2012).[3]
On Filippetti's initiative, the National Assembly passed a law in 2013 preventing internet booksellers from offering free delivery to customers, in an attempt to protect the country's struggling bookshops from the growing dominance of US online retailerAmazon.[4] In 2014, Filippetti dismissed Anne Baldassari, the director of theMusée Picasso, after mounting criticism of her management.[5]
Following the resignation ofArnaud Montebourg in protest against Hollande's economic policies, Filippetti andBenoît Hamon also resigned on 25 August 2014.[6][7][8]
Following her resignation, Filippetti returned to parliament, where she served on theFinance Committee from 2014 until 2017.[9] In the vote on the 2015 budget, she was one of 39 socialistdeputies who abstained.[10] Shelost her parliamentary seat in the2017 election.
In the Socialist Party'spresidential primaries, Filippetti endorsed Montebourg as the party's candidate for that year'spresidential elections.[11] When Hamon was chosen instead, she joined his campaign team as spokesperson.
Filippetti was excluded for 18 months after supporting a dissident list, and announced January, 17th 2018 that she left theSocialist Party and joined Génération.s., the political movement ofBenoît Hamon, her former colleague in the French Government.
Later in 2018, Filippetti announced her intention to resign from politics.[12]
In 2016, she was appointed president of theCinemed film festival.[13][14] She resigned in 2019 and was succeeded byLeoluca Orlando, former mayor ofPalermo.[15]
On 9 November 2004, Filippetti andXavière Tibéri wrangled after a tense district council meeting. Each of them accused the other one of assault or threats. Tibéri had a head trauma, which she claimed was caused by Filippetti pushing her over; she filed a complaint.[16]
In 2008, Filippetti made headlines when she went public with allegations that former IMF headDominique Strauss-Kahn had sexually attacked her.[17][18]
Filippetti was in a relationship with economistThomas Piketty. In 2009, she filed a complaint of domestic violence against him; Piketty apologized for his actions and Filippetti quickly dropped the charges.[19]
In September 2014, Filippetti andArnaud Montebourg suedParis Match for invasion of privacy for reporting they are romantically involved; the weekly's cover featured a photo of them during a trip to San Francisco.[20][21]
From 2014 to the beginning of 2017, Filippetti had a relationship with Montebourg,[22] with whom she had a daughter, Jeanne, born in September 2015.[23] Her first daughter, Clara, is from a previous relationship.
