MONACO MONEY MADNESS!
Prince and wife spend like there is no tomorrow
MONACO’S playboy Prince Albert and his wasteful wife, Princess Charlene, blow through a king’s ransom each year to fund their over-the-top lifestyles, according to the royals’ former moneyman. Claude Palmero, 67, managed the deep-pocketed ruler’s $1 billion fortune for more than two decades before stepping down in July amid an anticorruption probe, but the accountant is now dropping a dime on the Grimaldi dynasty’s scandalous behavior!
Palmero says he detailed the couple’s free-flowing cash output in a series of “secret notebooks” documenting skirt-chaser Albert, 65, has a hush-hush French bank account to support his mistresses. The prince’s love children, Jazmin Grimaldi, 31, and Alexandre Coste-Grimaldi, 20, receive annual allowances of $344,000 each, the number cruncher claims.
Palmero says Charlene hauls in $1 million a year — yet she hires “illegal” immigrants for just $90 a day to toil in the family’s ritzy residences!
The turncoat squeals shortly after the 2014 arrival of Albert’s twins, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, mom Charlene placed the tots in the care of undocumented workers who didn’t even have valid tourist visas!
Then she and the proud papa splashed out nearly $750,000 to celebrate the children’s birth and baptism! The onetime wealth manager insists he tried to rein in the South African stunner, who didn’t blink at dropping over $2 million to spruce up her vacation villa in Corsica and her office in Monte Carlo!
But he charges crafty Charlene paid her personal chef about $300 a day from petty cash — and forked over thousands in moolah to her own family!
Palmero blabs he sounded the alarm in 2019 after noticing Albert’s wily wife ran through more than $16 million a year for nearly a decade — double her annual budget.
Yet others say Monaco’s miffed princess knows exactly what she’s doing!
The prince’s runaway bride was missing from the tiny principality for most of 2021.
The palace claimed the former Olympic backstroker was attending overseas engagements before health problems kept her grounded for months.
But sources snitch Charlene fled after a third woman sued Albert for fathering her daughter — while he was courting Charlene!
The notorious Casanova has called the accusation hogwash. Yet insiders dish Albert, who makes a mint from his share in Monaco’s casinos, lured Charlene back into a loveless sham marriage by paying her $11 million a year to stay by his side — and giving her an unlimited budget! Sources gab the vengeful gal has since burned through millions in designer duds and sparkly jewels for public engagements — and doesn’t hesitate to spoil her nine-yearold kids!