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Rodel Scuebe
'Brave' and My Audition to be Madame Picasso - http://rodelscuebe.multiply.com/journal...
"Brave" brought back my feelings of being engaged to Pablo Picasso's son Claude, whom I wanted to marry. My father, my mother and my sister had wanted me to marry him as well. Of course money, property and prestige and their desire for my well-being were their motivations, just as Queen and King Magus's in "Brave" were for their daughter Merida. When Picasso died in 1973, under the moonlight in the graveyard of the Chateau des Vauvenauges, Claude asked me to be his wife. At this time, Claude's mother began a massive lawsuit for Picasso's estate, all of his paintings and seven castles.  When I met Claude in 1971, he was penniless, while I was a top model photographed for the covers of Newsweek, Cosmopolitan and New York. I was a success financially. Feeling sorry for Claude, whose father had tried to arrest him as a young teenager and had exiled Claude from his life, I offered to support him. His grandmother was wealthy but gave him no money.   Claude... - Rodel Scuebe