His banter was legendary. Died on January 12 at the age of 72, Rolland Courbis left behind a great coaching career but above all, stories, each more incredible than the last. This Sunday in the columns of Nice-Matin, it is the turn of Maria Luisa Rizzoli, who shared her life for almost 50 years, to tell new stories.
The most juicy of them concerns… Donald Trump. Coming from a wealthy background, the Italian countess, accustomed to receiving leading personalities, returned to “the casino tour” carried out by Courbis and the current President of the United States, before he occupied this position. “We went from Cannes to San Remo,” she says during the interview. “Trump loving music, he asked for three Moroccan dancers. They had gone back and forth to do belly dancing,” she remembers.
“With Trump, we looked like two playboys”
“When it was time to leave, we took them back to Nice airport and Rolland was curious. He wanted to visit the Boeing,” explains the countess. “With Rolland, Trump talked about sport. He told her: I’ll invite you to my place, we’ll try to do something in football. They of course lost touch but everyone invited Rolland. He was very handsome. With Trump, we looked like two playboys. Without getting political, he told me: This Donald is really nice. »
Still very touched by the disappearance of Courbis, with whom she had a four-year romance, Countess Maria Luisa Rizzoli also focused on the unique personality of her former love. “You have to understand that everyone had immediate sympathy for Rolland. I swear to you,” she assures. “He didn’t like it when I said he had a pagnolese side, but he was so true, so himself. He was full of sensitivity. To speak with these people, he did not count to twelve. »
The funeral of Rolland Courbis took place on Saturday January 17 in Marseille, a few days after a religious ceremony organized in Paris, in the heart of the Madeleine Church.
