The stars start it. In your Instagram account, follow the most spectacular places in the world, the most influential personalities and the most luxurious dishes. Jean Ibert, a talented media and chef, with the paved career of beautiful meetings and success, is now accused of violence by four former companions for several months.
One of them, Lila Salet, who shared his life from 2012 to 2013, filed a complaint on August 23 for domestic violence.
If Jean Ibert disputes the facts and describes these accusations of “biased and truncated stories,” the Versailles prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on August 25, without retaining the accusation of kidnapping.
None of the many brands and establishments with which Jean Imbert collaborates has reacted so far, more than the many personalities visiting his establishments. For more than 13 years, the ambitious chef has multiplied prestigious projects, and has been documenting its friendships with the largest stars on the planet (actors, singers, athletes, politicians, on their Instagram account, where more than 500,000 subscribers dream in front of their positions.
Stars
It’s very simple, Jean Ibert meets everyone. JR photographer, known before Top Chef She became a nearby friend, like Marion Cotillard, a 20 -year -old friend, who appreciates her “generosity, her grain of madness, her passion, this mixture of shyness and boldness.”
Actress Leila Bekhti, singers Beyoncé and Jay Z, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Travolta, Omar Sy, Robert De Nir Cabblour
Emily Ratajkowski or Cara Delevingne models also cross their kitchen, François Hollande raises all smiles. Pharrell Williams is a friend and partner of a boss.
Enough to affirm an image of the “Chief of the Stars”, which ends up annoying it. In 2018, Jean Ibert pushed a diatribe to defend his work.
“Some will still say ‘Chief of the stars’, blabla … I have three days in Los Angeles, I spend between 12 and 14 hours a day in the kitchen with the equipment (…), so he is not a chef of the stars, he is not a chef, he is a cook and otherwise he is fine,” he releases on Instagram.
But why so many stars in Jean Imbert’s kitchens? “They like to eat at home because I simply receive them,” he analyzes in 2013 at the Nouvel OBS who already called him “Lady Gaga des Fourneaux.”
“My greatest meetings, and I will not make a name, they were also made thanks to a dish,” he said in her columns in July 2020.
“I didn’t get anyone,” he also defends himself in the Tickets The same year. Concontant: “It is true that thanks to the restaurant I could meet very powerful and well -known people, attend films of movies, link friendships.”
Decisive meeting
Even before your victory in Top Chef In 2012, at age 30, who contributed to launch it and make it a media leader in France, its meeting, accident but decisive with photographer JR, then also in full ascent, will change its destination.
JR, who has long been preparing a documentary about Robert De Niro (presented in Cannes last May), the actor presents him, who comes to dinner at his house and invites him to New York.
One night in October 2012, Jean Imbert saw the actor landed in mahogany. “They had warned me by email that Niro would come to dinner last night,” he said Pureemedias. “At 11:00 pm, I wasn’t there yet, I thought I was dead and disgusted. But at midnight, Luc Besson left him.
From Ravioli of Foie Gras to Beet Tartinas, he meets the gratina of the American people, who loves his kitchen.
And for almost 10 years, successes have been linked to the head of a family of printers, animated by a great desire for success and an early vocation of cooking, born with his mother and his beloved grandmother, Nicole. He will also open with her, the “Mamie” restaurant, after the closing of the mahogany.
“At 10 years, I cooked the chef’s meals for the family, with my brother on a server. At age 14, my parents’ friends were committed to their dinners,” GQ delivered in 2019.
Bulimic work
From his victory in Top ChefIt also drags an image of claim, which fights to get rid of. “Some have said it was arrogant, but I am not like that at all, I never felt superior,” he told Melty’s site in April 2012. “I showed my desire to win, but it was always a clean play.”
His “desire to win” leads him quickly to multiply projects and cultivate friendships. In 2017, Vanity Fair Place the young boss 36 years 46 of his 50 best of the most influential French personalities in the world.
Bully and allergic work to its “comfort zone”, in addition to the mahogany, its first direction was launched at 22 in the 16th in Paris, Horse White on the island of Saint-Barthélemy in 2019, then Toshare, in Saint-Tropez (2020) and Ibiza (2021) and Swan in Miami, in collaboration with Pharlell Williams and LVMH. The one who swears for family meals and Brittany spends his time between two planes to examine the planet, from the Caribbean to Dubai through Japan or Colombia.
In 2021, he won the Grail and happened to Alain Ducasse in the Athenée Square, a venerable three -star institution in Michelin, at 40.
Stupor and teeth roar
A relay step that awakens stupor and teeth grabs in the midst of gastronomy. That summer, in M revealed world Who dedicates a portrait to him, criticism is raining. If the author of the article describes a man “very adorable and soft voice, sometimes lost in the vague”, some gastronomic and critical bosses interviewed do not bite his words.
“He likes Bling-King people, money,” said culinary journalist François-Régis Gaudry, for whom Jean Ibert does not have “neither the CV nor the necessary experience for such a place.” “His best dish is his Instagram account,” says Figaro’s critic Emmanuel Rubin.
Annoying for some, he is “a child and an artist” for others, such as Laurent de Gouruff, head of the Paris Society, “someone shy, not very comfortable in public, very moving.”
Even others, defend it. “It’s very talented,” analyzes three stars chef Arnaud Dohukele. “I am sure it will successfully succeed,” abounds the other three stars of Glenn Viel.
Jean Ibert does not deserve, and won, in March 2022, a star, the first, only a few weeks after having assumed the palace’s commandments, frustrating Cassandre’s predictions.
“He put a whim”
In the process, he signed the Dior store card, on the other side of the street, continues with the Gourmet restaurant in Disneyland Paris, at the Disneyland Hotel, in March 2025, where he returned to visit with the obvious pleasure of the classics of the repertoire.
But, in April 2025, these successes sank against the wall of accusations of domestic violence. Elle magazine publishes the first testimonies of former companions involving Jean Imbert. Lila Salet, testifies, as well as Alexandra Rosenfeld, under the pseudonym. The former Lord France, ends up leaving anonymity on August 19 and testifies to the violence suffered, the radiography in support.
“He put a whim, once. But strangely, that’s not what marked me,” he wrote. “What damaged me was all that was close. Dessportation, leaves, silences, words perfectly located to make me doubt me, my value.”
After a first complaint filed in 2013, before being withdrawn, Lila Salet file a new complaint on August 23, 2025.
Directed by several testimonies of the former partner who denounces the domestic violence he disputes, Jean Imbert is now the object of an investigation for violence.
On Instagram, Jean Imbert’s showcase is Radio Silence. The chief’s last message dates back to August 15 and celebrates the anniversary of François Delahaye, general manager of Plaza Athenée.
Source: BFM TV
