Choupette slept on silk pillows, traveled by private jet, and had two nannies of her own. That was the life of Karl Lagerfeld’s Birman cat, the designer who treated her like a daughter and who, according to rumors, planned to leave her a fortune when he was gone.
Lagerfeld died in 2019, and since then the story of the multimillion-dollar inheritance has gone around the world. But seven years have passed and, according to her caretaker, Choupette still has not received that money. In France, the law is clear: an animal cannot own an estate, so the process became trapped in legal disputes that no one has resolved.
Meanwhile, she remains in Paris, in the home her owner left arranged before he passed away, cared for by the human family he himself chose for her. She does not have the money, but she has kept something the designer never stopped giving her in life: a safe place to be exactly what she always was, his most pampered cat.
