She was also associated with members of the Rolling Stones, including Ronnie Wood[28] and, according to Keith Richards' autobiography, Life, Mick Jagger.[28][29]. And yes, young Castro and Justin Trudeau might bear a physical resemblance. Ignoring the biological impossibility of conceiving a child a literal year before that child was born, the user linked to an article by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, describing the first time the two leaders spoke to (not met) each other: Pierre Trudeaus and Fidel Castros paths crossed for the first time in 1970, when the Canadian government sought to negotiate the exile of members of the FLQ, who had kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross. Gratitude. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus' Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have . In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. An article written by Alex Kasprak for leftist fact-checking website Snopes.com declares the story false, but tries to mislead readers about its supporting points. While in London, Mrs. Trudeau met actor Jack Nicholson -- 'the first real rival to Pierre. This is good news and I celebrate with the Cuban people. [45] In July 2019, she attended an opening ceremony of WE College in Narok County (Kenya) with former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, Kenyan First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Craig Kielburger, a co-founder of WE Charity organization. His sexual appetite was so legendary this article cannot efficiently capture it. A photo of her at the disco was featured on many front pages across Canada. It aggressively asserts that: "It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. After she refused, the King sent the equerry back just to ask her name. He looked like he could beat up any other word leader, much less any competitor for Margaret Trudeaus attention. In 1976, the senior Trudeau became the first Nato leader to visit Cuba under Castro's rule, at one point exhorting "Viva Castro!". [12] Trudeau explored her mother's family's roots in Singapore during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. Fidel made it clear in his opening remarks that the parents were important but not nearly as important as the baby. " Pierre Trudeau's and Fidel Castro's paths crossed for the first time in 1970 ," the Globe reports, before explaining the Trudeaus had such a great time on the Caribbean island that " an enduring friendship was . He would be turning 60 when she was barely out of her 20s. The story clearly got under the skin of someone in Canadian parliament. She separated from her husband in 1977. Trudeau was born a little more than nine months after the marriage of his parents and more than four years before Margaret made a much-publicized first trip to Cuba and met Fidel Castro. No evidence Castro never travelled to see them in the Caribbean. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. They demonstrated a striking level of familiarity before even getting off the tarmac of their 1976 trip. According to a 2009 Globe and Mail article by Margaret Wente, actress Margot Kidder (Superman, Superman II), classical guitarist Liona Boyd, and actress Kim Cattrall all claimed to have slept with him at some time. Ted Kennedy, Piere Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau circa 1981 in New York. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have absconded from Canada at the time. [1] She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971; three years after he became prime minister. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. She had two children with him: son Kyle (born 1984), and daughter Alicia (born 1988). In 2000, Castro made a rare appearance out of Cuba to attend Pierres funeral in Canada. Browns so-called investigation altogether missed an obvious Wikipedia article showing the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971, with citations to theactual reporters covering it. It marked a turning point in Canadas relationship with Cuba, but Margaret Trudeau remembers the groundbreaking trip as one in which a dictator melted at the sight of her young baby. Almost one million Canadian tourists visit Cuba every year. Having recently become Prime Minister, it suited him to get married and demonstrate stability. Are Carbon Levels really at a dangerous level? Castros communist revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, considered the worlds closest brush with nuclear war, slammed shut relations between the two countries during the Cold War. Margaret Trudeau has form when it comes to sex scandals with powerful and high-profile men. Okay, but she was not in Canada. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. [5], The Bernards were the descendants of colonists in the Straits Settlements, the Dutch East Indies, and British Malaya, nowadays respectively Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, including Francis James Bernard, a London, England-born Anglo-Irishman whose great-grandfather, Arthur Bernard, was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Bandonbridge, and brother of Francis Bernard, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon. The article states that the Trudeaus were visiting an unidentified island in the Caribbean and wanted the press to give them privacy: To be clear: they disclosedall the other locations they visitedbut asked the press for privacy when they went to the unidentified island. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. Marisa Tomei. For example, in Vicesarticle, We Investigated Those Damning Rumors About Fidel Castro Being Justin Trudeaus Real Dad by Drew Brown, Brown does not investigate anything. 117.. First, Margaret Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and Fidel Castro were all notoriously sexually promiscuous. And when Castro died, Justin Trudeau was the only leader of the Western World to give him an overwhelmingly positive eulogy without addressing his misdeeds. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail confirms that Pierre and Margaret Trudeau became close friends with Fidel Castro. The Trudeaus seperated in May, 1977, after less than seven years of marriage. New First Comment from D (an insider): While in university, friends from West Vancouver knew Margaret Sinclair and her family. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. After all it could have been Pierres idea. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. [42], On May 5, 2006, Trudeau announced she has bipolar disorder. It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. She partied scantily clad at Studio 54. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. His just mocks the story and then abruptly states this: Oh, wait. They all took photographs together. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. She was clearly attracted to men in positions of power, even some who were old and unattractive. "Castro Rejects New Ties to U.S." It is a fact the Trudeaus were swingers. "From the day I became Mrs. Pierre Elliott Trudeau," she writes in her memoirs, "a glass panel was gently lowered into place around me, like a patient in a mental hospital no longer considered able to make decisions and cannot be exposed to a harsh light. The seperation followed months of speculation that her relationship with the prime minister, 29 years her senior, was in trouble. On his visit, Margaret welcomed the leader at his hotel on behalf of the Trudeaus. All of the articles debunking story follow the same format. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be . The Sinclairs are a leading Illuminati family. This material may not be reproduced without permission. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. There are photographs (see above) comparing Justin Trudeau with a young Fidel Castro, and evidence that Justin Trudeau's mother, Margaret Trudeau, was in Havana, Cuba, nine months before Justin was born. On April 18, 1984, with her three sons attending, she married Ottawa real-estate developer Fried Kemper in a civil ceremony in the chambers of Judge Hugh Poulin. 27 March 1971. 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Pierre Trudeau biographer John English states the evidence is overwhelming that he slept with Barbara Streisand. When asked last year about the prospect of marriage, she replied 'We're still both married, each of us with children we're trying to bring up. Fidel Castro was immediately taken with four-month-old Michel when he arrived with his parents in 1976, Margaret Trudeau remembers. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. By Duncan Cameron/Library and Archives Canada/PA-175941. [4] Her grandfather, Thomas Kirkpatrick Bernard, was born in Makassar, Dutch Celebes, now in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and immigrated in 1906 at age 15 with his family to Penticton, British Columbia, eventually working as a payroll clerk for Canadian Pacific Railway. She is the ex-wife of Pierre Trudeau, who served as Canada's 15th prime minister and is the father of the current prime minister. In 1976, Pierre eagerly became the first NATO leader to travel to Cuba. Fidel Castro obliged the Canadian PM by providing a refuge, and in a private letter Mr. Trudeau later extended his heartfelt gratitude. Advertisement 2. No major news sources support that claim and researching it leads to a dead-end. The most plausible explanation remains that, soon after marrying, honeymooning, and moving in together after years of keeping their relationship secret, Pierre and Margaret Trudeau had sex and created a child who would one day become another Canadian prime minister. First, Margaret Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and Fidel Castro were all notoriously sexually promiscuous. He was 6'3, strong, and an athlete who sported the frame of an American football player. The record is not immediately clear how much of that happened before the couple was separated, but before she moved out of the house he was entertaining three women downstairs at a time: He often invited two girlfriends to the same event. She smuggled drugs in the Prime Ministers official government luggage. The story clearly got under the skin of someone in Canadian parliament. Margaret was a 23-year-old wild child who liked doing it the old-fashioned way. It was very kind of him, she said of Castros offer. Margaret Trudeau has the distinction of being the only Canadian woman to have been the wife of a prime minister and mother of another prime minister. I keep pretty private. However, this Vancouver-born public figure. It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. Margaret Trudeau (2017) Margaret Joan Trudeau (ne Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian author, actress, . It is the only island they did not disclose. He would be turning 60 when she was barely out of her 20s. Oh, what a charmer, Margaret said in the clip. If you've been around people who are bipolar, you know it can be a wild ride. Simon and Schuster, 2008. Castro told them his concern was to give people educations and help get them out of poverty. Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeaus Dad. In the age of sloppy journalism, few authors are sloppier than those who claim they debunked the story that Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeaus biological father. At Studio 54 on the eve of the Canadian election, 1979. Pierre and Margaret married in March 1971 and honeymooned in the Caribbean where they met up with Fidel Castro, at which time the three engaged in cuckoldry and Margaret had an affair with Fidel. Come on. In an except from her biography published in the Toronto Star, Mrs. Trudeau also discussed a drug-filled relationship with a rock musician, Tom Sullivan, whose appeal was his 'extreme youth. He was very proud of what he was doing with their children in establishing them as strong citizens.. And you know why hes in power, she continued, suggestively. The Trudeaus were indeed close to Fidel Castro, who once described Pierre Trudeau as "a close friend and an extraordinary figure." Margaret Trudeau was also open in her later writings about. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. New York, NY: Margaret Trudeau, wife of Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, does some fancy stepping at Studio 54, a New York City disco, during. The loss of her son was devastating for Trudeau, and she had another major depressive episode that led to her second divorce. Trudeau's statement, as well as his family's friendly history with Castro, led to speculation that a much harder truth lay behind his soft words. The 32-year-old Mrs. Trudeau was last reported living with Ottawa businessman Jimmy Johnson who runs a successful furniture store. And when Castro died, Justin Trudeau was the only leader of the Western World to give him an overwhelmingly positive eulogy without addressing his misdeeds. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. He was full of bravado, confidence, and masculinity and smoked cigars like a baller. Some Canadians (and others) were angered by what they viewed as Trudeaus humanization of a dictator who had caused profound suffering for his own people. 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'I wanted him badly,' she maintained, 'but I didn't need him.'. The theory rested on three unconnected assertions: 1) Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro met in 1971 and were close friends ever after, 2) Margaret Trudeau was sexually promiscuous, and 3) Fidel and Justin were similar in appearance. [13] Acclaimed British harpsichordist, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, and Hawaiian settler, Edward William Purvis, according to popular belief, was the namesake of the ukulele, are Margaret Trudeau's first cousins, three times-removed. That being said, the exaggerations and painful avoidance of the storys debunkers are far more suspicious. Friends said at the time her life revolved around her three children -- Sasha, Justin and Michel -- and a growing interest in Japanese cooking. Margaret Trudeau has so many stories. If an infertile old man wanted to have a family, his wife had to do it the old-fashioned way. That is a non-starter for this author. Poznali si, gdy on mia 48 lat, a ona 18. 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