Nigel Farage has had a complicated love life. In 2017, while married to his second wife Kirsten Mehr, a British tabloid published a photo of a younger French woman taking out the bins at his London bolthole. Her name was Laure Ferrari, she was 15 years younger than Farage, and she appeared to be staying at the five-storey, £4m townhouse near Buckingham Palace that Farage used when in the capital.
At first, when the image surfaced, Farage dismissed the idea of a relationship as “crackers”. He said at the time: “She is someone I have worked with and known well for a long time who wanted somewhere to stay for a week that wouldn’t cost her any money. It’s a working relationship. You can inflate it however you want to”. Ferrari also denied that she was anything more than Farage’s lodger: “I have no trustworthy friends in London who could have hosted me. I asked and he accepted. He is just trying to be helpful.”
A week later, Farage’s German wife of 18 years, with whom he’d had two daughters, Victoria and Isabelle, announced she and her husband had been living separate lives for some time and he’d moved out of their Kent home “a while ago”. She added, “This is a situation that suits everyone and is not news to any of the people involved.”
