3 – The murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier & trial by press
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You were listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Sophie Tuskand du Plantier. Oh, Sophie Tuskand du Planteer was a French writer and documentarian. |
| 0:44.0 | She was born in July of 1957 in Paris, France, to her parents Marguerite and George Buneol. |
| 0:52.0 | She was the eldest of two having one brother, Bertrand. |
| 0:55.6 | She was very close to her mother's sister Marie Madeline. She was described as an |
| 1:01.4 | independent and vivacious young girl. |
| 1:04.0 | After finishing school, she briefly went on to study law |
| 1:08.0 | before realizing that the law was not her passion. |
| 1:11.0 | Her interest was more in literature and writing. She dropped out of university and then |
| 1:16.8 | married her boyfriend at the time, Pierre, in June of 1980. She worked in a bookshop and helped to run her husband's family's video shop. |
| 1:27.2 | On the 26th of March the following year, Sophie gave birth to her son, Pierre Louis. |
| 1:36.2 | Unfortunately, soon after the birth of her child, Pierre left Sophie and they were divorced two years later. |
| 1:40.5 | Sophie worked a number of jobs and then began working in public relations. |
| 1:44.8 | She met Daniel Duplantee in 1988. |
| 1:48.8 | They had worked together and although he was over 25 years her senior, they got on well. |
| 1:55.0 | Initially, Sophie had been hesitant to start a relationship with him, |
| 1:59.0 | as he held a high profile in their shared career area of directing. But once Daniel had completed the separation |
| 2:06.1 | from his wife that had been going on when they met, Sophie decided that she would give the relationship |
| 2:11.4 | a go. They were married in June of 1990. She began working as an independent film producer with Daniel's support. |
| 2:21.0 | In 1991, she bought a home in rural county Cork. She had visited there when she participated in a student exchange during our high school years and had fallen in love with the countryside which resembled the area of France |
| 2:35.4 | her family had come from before moving to Paris. She attended a party on the 20th of December |
| 2:41.9 | 1996 with her husband and the next day flew to her holiday |
| 2:46.3 | home on her own. It was her first time visiting Cork by herself. The holiday home was remote but situated next to two other houses in a cul-de-sac at the end of a private laneway. |
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