If he made the front page of celebrity magazines for his relationship with the actress Agathe de la Fontaine, the former world champion has been living with a Swiss model for twenty years.
Emmanuel Petit has undoubtedly been vaccinated. Like his fellow world champions Bixente Lizarazu or Fabien Barthez, and their love stories with Elsa or Linda Evangelista, the former Monegasque found himself in the celebrity pages in the wake of the world title. Consequence of his union with the actress Agathe de la Fontaine and their marriage in 2000.
The marriage between the French midfielder and the actress ultimately only lasted two years. Time to have a daughter, Zoé, who has since become a famous model. Emmanuel Petit will subsequently be much more discreet about his private life. So much so that it was by accident that he revealed his marriage in the fall of 2014. While he thought he was still off the air after an ad break at half-time of a League Cup match on France Télévisions, the former Gunner in fact indulged in a surprising confidence with his friends in the comments.
A Swiss-Italian model
“I got married ten days ago…I haven’t told anyone actually. You shouldn’t say it, it’s secret.”, he said. His relationship with his new wife, his third, the model Maria Servello, was certainly not a secret. Their relationship had lasted for ten years and two daughters had added to the family, Violette, born in 2009, and Scala, born in 2011. “If I chose not to return to the world of football, it is largely to devote myself to them. Despite my busy activities, I strive to give them a real framework, without too many constraints”, he confided about them in the columns of Le Parisien.
Often presented as a Russian model, Maria Servello was born in the late summer of 1974 in Switzerland and holds Swiss and Italian nationalities. Based with Emmanuel Petit in the heart of Paris, on the Ile Saint-Louis, the young woman still works as a model but has also gone behind the lens. She also recently ventured into real estate, working with Michael Zingraf’s famous agency.
