Bloomberg Tax
Feb. 27, 2019, 12:01 PM UTC

Lagerfeld’s Cat Won’t Get Her Paws on His Fortune. France Will.

Sony Kassam
Sony Kassam
Reporter

Choupette, the pampered Birman cat of late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, won’t directly be getting her furry paws on his fortune.

But France will. Maybe Germany and the U.S., too.

The will of the former Chanel and Fendi creative director, who died last week in France at age 85, is confidential under German and French law. But it has been widely speculated that the German designer left a fraction of his $200 million estate to his darling cat.

Lagerfeld has previously said he would set aside some of his estate for Choupette, according to interviews in French magazines Numero ...

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