Hélène Pastor

In June 2014, her son-in-law, Wojciech Janowski, admitted to being involved with her assassination. In 2017, Janowski and nine more individuals, including fitness trainer Pascal Dauriac and his brother-in-law Abdelkader Belkhatir, were summoned to court over for a trial. On 17 October 2018, Janowski was sentenced to life in prison.

On 6 May 2014, Pastor was traveling by car from the L' Archet Hospital in western Nice, France, where she had been visiting her son. Minutes later, a gunman fired at her car, hitting both Pastor and her chauffeur, Mohamed Darouich. She was rushed to the Saint Roch hospital in central Nice, and fell into a coma. Darouich died from his injuries on 11 May. Pastor woke up from her coma on 16 May, but died five days later, on 21 May, at age 77.

She then married Claude Pallanca, a dentist. They had a son, Gildo Pallanca Pastor, born in 1967.

She was married twice. With her first husband, she had a daughter, Sylvia Pastor, born in 1961, who lived with Wojciech Janowski, a Polish-born businessman, for 28 years.

Hélène Pastor (31 March 1937 – 21 May 2014) was a Monegasque businesswoman and heiress. She headed what is seen as Monaco’s ‘second dynasty’, and was the richest woman in the principality. She was assassinated by a gang that included her son-in-law, who was subsequently jailed for life in 2018.

Hélène Pastor was born in 1937. Her father, Gildo Pastor, was an heir and businessman. Her paternal grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Pastor, was an Italian builder who moved to Monaco in the 1880s.