Cocaine and escorts found at the home of a friend of Prince Albert II

A scandal within a scandal. Last July, leaked emails between four senior figures in Monaco led to an investigation into potentially fraudulent real estate transactions carried out by this quartet that formed Prince Albert’s “close guard”. The home of Mr. Thierry Lacoste, a former lawyer and friend of the Prince involved in this case, was then searched. Four women, ages 34, 38, 45 and 51, were found inside Parisian.

The police are convinced that some of them are known prostitutes in the emirate. A small plastic bag containing cocaine was also found at the scene. When the police questioned him, the forty-year-old did not want to cooperate. Then the procedure for “pimping, forgery, and drug use” was opened. But Stephane Thibault, Monaco’s public prosecutor, confided to our colleagues that the matter was not related to Mr. Thierry Lacoste and that it was “closed without any further action.”

“He does not care whether near or far.”

For his part, Thierry Lacoste has always maintained that he never lived in this apartment, even if the lease was in his name. The document was updated “after the death of his mother” in 2021, according to his lawyer, Mai Marie-Alex Cano-Bernard. But he would never occupy the property nor use it as a base. She stressed, “This is of course the reason why his personal belongings were not found on the site.”

According to his lawyer, Thierry Lacoste hosted an old friend in financial difficulties at the apartment, the 40-year-old found by the police. “Mr. Lacoste is not directly or remotely involved in this apartment, in which he does not live,” she said. In parallel with the ongoing investigation, the Quartet filed several complaints against X, including public defamation and forgery. The latter will actually target Patrice Pastor, a local real estate mogul who is suspected of being the reason behind the original email leaks.