Daniel Ducruet

Ducruet and his son, Louis Ducruet, are, since 2016, the co-managers of the Monaco-based company Monadeco.

Two of his children, Louis and Pauline, are 15th and 16th in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne.

Ducruet owns a nightclub in Cannes called Le Caliente. He came under fire in 2008 when a photo resurfaced, apparently taken the previous year, showing a nude woman in the nightclub. He and his business partner, Jean-Pierre Roméo, were charged by the court in Grasse with "undermining the privacy of private life." Ducruet and Roméo were accused of having broadcast the photo on 31 August 2008 without the woman's consent. The woman was a minor at the time (17 years old) but in 2010 the case was dismissed.

In 2004 he has taken part in the Italian reality TV show La Fattoria and the similar French reality TV show La Ferme Célébrités, where he finished second. Also in 2004 he hosted Real TV, the Italian version of Real TV, on Italia 1.

In September 1996, Ducruet's infidelity with Muriel "Fili" Mol-Houteman, Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium 1995, was photographed by the paparazzi and the images were published in the Italian tabloids Evatremila and Gente. Ducruet said that he was set up. At the height of the scandal, a 90-minute video of the Ducruet's encounter with Houteman sold in Italy. When the story made headlines, Ducruet fled to Morocco. Upon his return he met with his wife who then submitted, to her father, a written request for a divorce, dated 16 September 1996. Princess Stéphanie divorced Ducruet on 4 October 1996.

On 1 July 1995 Ducruet and Princess Stéphanie were married in a civil ceremony at the Monaco town hall.

Stéphanie campaigned long and hard for her father to approve a marriage between her and Ducruet, since he was reluctant to sanction a marriage between the two. Only after the birth of their second child, a daughter Pauline Grace Maguy Ducruet, born on 4 May 1994, and his own double-bypass surgery did Prince Rainier give his blessing. Louis and Pauline Ducruet were legitimated by their parents' marriage and are currently 15th and 16th in the line of succession to the Monégasque throne.

Ducruet's girlfriend Martine Malbouvier was six months pregnant with his first child when he went public with his relationship with Princess Stéphanie. His first son, Michaël Ducruet, was born in February 1992. On 26 November 1992, ten months after the birth of his first child, Ducruet had a second son Louis Robert Paul with Princess Stéphanie.

Within two years he had been appointed a Palace bodyguard with responsibility for Prince Albert. In 1991, he was appointed by Prince Rainier to accompany his daughter Princess Stéphanie as bodyguard on her ill-fated tour to promote her record album.

Ducruet attended the University of Nice but dropped out after a year. He worked as a bodybuilder, pet shop clerk and a fishmonger before being accepted into Monaco's police force as a trainee officer in 1986.

Ducruet's first marriage to Sandra Naccache ended in divorce in the mid-1980s.

Daniel Ducruet (French: [dykʁɥɛ] ; born 27 November 1964) is a former husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, to whom he was married in 1995 and divorced from a year later in 1996.