14 DAY TRIAL // A new baby scandal is tearing the celebrity universe apart: Salma Hayek’s husband and baby-daddy, the billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, is also the father of Linda Evangelista’s son, who was conceived at about the same time as Salma’s daughter, it has emerged.
According to a new piece in The New York Post, Linda has gone to great lengths to keep the identity of her son’s father a secret ever since she first learned she was pregnant.
The secret is now finally out of the bag since the model has filed papers in court asking Pinault to provide for the boy and recognize him as his own flesh and blood.
“The father of supermodel Linda Evangelista’s 4-year-old boy is none other than billionaire Frenchman Francois-Henri Pinault – who just happens to be the husband of actress Salma Hayek,” the publication writes.
“Despite Evangelista’s rep denying Pinault’s paternity when confronted with it by The Post’s Page Six back in October 2007, the Victoria’s Secret stunner came to court yesterday in hopes of hashing out a support agreement with Pinault, the father of the boy, Augustin James,” says the same media outlet.
In other words, for the past years, Pinault has been pretending as if his son didn’t even exist, though it is believed Linda told him the moment she knew she was with child.
This also means that he didn’t provide for him or his mother, and that he probably didn’t even tell Salma that he had another child with another woman, that she didn’t know of.
“The Manhattan magistrate’s court action confirms that the two-timing Pinault – CEO of the $28 billion conglomerate that owns Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Yves St. Laurent – is the daddy to two 4-year-olds by different world-famous beauties,” the Post writes.
It is believed that Pinault and Linda became intimate during a break in his relationship with Salma. Right after that, he went on to reconcile with the Spanish stunner – and then married her a few years later.