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When French authorities interviewed Eric Freymond earlier this year, one of their first questions for the Swiss wealth manager was a simple one: Tell us about your relationship with Nicolas Puech, the Hermès heir who had given Freymond effective control over a fortune now estimated at more than $15 billion.
今年早些时候，法国当局询问瑞士理财经理埃里克·弗雷蒙德时，曾提过一个简单的问题：谈谈你与尼古拉斯·普伊奇的关系。后者是爱马仕继承人，他将自己名下巨额财富（如今估值已超150亿美元）的实际掌控权交付到了弗雷蒙德手中。
Freymond replied with a bombshell: The two men were lovers.
弗雷蒙德的回答犹如一颗炸弹：两人曾是恋人。
Freymond described the two men’s lives crisscrossing at houses and five-star hotels across Spain, Switzerland and London, where they lived in nearby apartments.
弗雷蒙德描述，两人的生活交织于西班牙、瑞士和伦敦的豪宅与五星级酒店之间，甚至住在相邻的公寓里。
When asked by a magistrate what Puech had seen in him, Freymond responded that it was “probably my looks. My way of carrying myself. The fact that I had respect for him.”
当地方法官问及普伊奇看中了他什么时，弗雷蒙德回答：“大概是我的外表、我的举手投足，还有我对他始终保有尊重。”
But according to Puech, this was all a lie—one of many Freymond spun over the years to create an elaborate fiction around his client. Puech told French investigating magistrates that his money manager was not a lover but rather a trusted friend who became a Svengali-like figure and isolated him from friends and family so that he could siphon away a massive fortune.
然而，根据普伊奇的说法，这一切都是谎言，是弗雷蒙德多年来编织的众多谎言之一，是一个围绕他构建的、精心设计的虚构故事。普伊奇向法国调查法官表示，这位理财经理并非他的恋人，而是一个信任的朋友，后来却成了一个类似斯文加里式的人物，将他与亲友隔绝，以便侵吞巨额财富。
Freymond, who was 67 years old and married with two daughters, was struck by a train and killed in July in his Alpine village near Gstaad, a death local police concluded was a suicide.
弗雷蒙德，67岁，已婚并育有两女，于七月在格施塔德附近的阿尔卑斯山村被火车撞击身亡，当地警方认定其为自杀。
📝重点词汇与表达
heir /er/ n. 继承人；后嗣
bombshell /ˈbɑːmʃel/ n. 出乎意料的事情，意外消息
crisscross /ˈkrɪs krɔːs/ v. 相互交叉，相互交错
magistrate /ˈmædʒɪstreɪt/ n. 地方执法官
spin /spɪn/ v. 纺（线）；纺（纱）
elaborate /ɪˈlæbərət/ adj. 复杂的；详尽的；精心制作的
fiction /ˈfɪkʃn/ n. 虚构的事；假想之物
isolate sb from 使分离；使分离；独立
siphon /ˈsaɪfn/ v.（尤指私自或非法）抽走，转移（钱）
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