Ghosn's Glittering Versailles Parties Shift Focus to Renault
- Jailed executive has vowed to repay chateau for wedding costs
- Les Echos reports on another party on Ghosn’s 60th birthday
The Chateau de Versailles.
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Carlos Ghosn’s use of the Chateau de Versailles for lavish parties has intensified scrutiny into the fallen auto executive’s tenure at the helm of Renault SA.
The French carmaker’s disclosure this week that centered around a Marie Antoinette-themed wedding celebration in 2016 was the first time it has publicly flagged a possible impropriety by its jailed former chairman. A Ghosn family spokeswoman, Devon Spurgeon, said he’ll pay back costs and also denied a report in Les Echos newspaper that another palace soiree in 2014 was planned around his 60th birthday.