1. Tristane Banon was born on 13 June 1979 and is a French journalist and writer.
13 Facts About Tristane Banon
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Tristane Banon is the daughter of Anne Mansouret and Gabriel Banon.
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Tristane Banon is a regular contributor on youth affairs at the French news website Atlantico.
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Tristane Banon is the daughter of Anne Mansouret, Socialist vice-president of the general council of Eure, representing Evreux-Est, in Upper Normandy.
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Tristane Banon is of Moroccan Jewish descent on her father's side and Iranian and Belgian on her mother's side.
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Tristane Banon's mother, Anne Mansouret, was born in Tehran, to an Iranian father and Belgian mother.
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Tristane Banon is a god-daughter of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's second wife Brigitte Guillemette.
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Tristane Banon earned a diploma from the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme de Paris.
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Tristane Banon initially worked as a journalist, anchorwoman on a television show about new information and communication technologies, and as a sport journalist.
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Tristane Banon was employed in the politics department, and later the cultural department, of the French weekly Paris-Match, then worked at the daily newspaper Le Figaro.
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The news website AgoraVox later repeated the allegations with his name included and Tristane Banon subsequently repeated them on a video recording.
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On 16 May 2011, it was reported Tristane Banon planned to file a legal complaint against Strauss-Kahn.
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Tristane Banon contested the version of events described in the biography when it appeared in May 2011.