Clone leader was 'terrible husband'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 01/06/2003 | Philip Delves Broughton

[dighton]

The leader of the Raelian cult, which claims to have created two infant clones, was a terrible husband and father and repeatedly unfaithful, his ex-wife told a French newspaper yesterday.

His aunt added that whenever Rael, whose real name is Claude Vorilhon, spoke about the aliens who cloned him, his family would call him “cornichon”, a French word meaning both gherkin and nincompoop.

The Raelians’ chief scientist, Brigitte Boisselier, claimed yesterday that three more cloned children would be born within a month. Scientists, however, remained sceptical about the two allegedly cloned babies already born.

Rael said he had now instructed Mme Boisselier to press ahead now with accelerated cell growth, which he believes holds the key to everlasting life.

Rael was born in Ambert, central France, the product of an adulterous affair between his mother and a married man, not, as he has claimed, of his mother’s impregnation by aliens.

“I know my sister,” said Vorilhon’s aunt Therese. “Little green men weren’t her type.” Mme Vorilhon told the Journal du Dimanche that she married Claude in the early Seventies.

At first, she said, “he was charming and intelligent”. The couple had two children.

In the mid-Seventies Vorilhon published his first book, in which he claimed to be the aliens’ messenger on Earth. The family moved to the Perigord, where their house soon filled up with cult followers.

In time Mme Vorilhon grew sick of cooking for her husband’s followers and girlfriends who arrived at the weekends.

“He was completely depraved and liked to be surrounded by young girls.” She asked for a divorce in 1985.

[dighton]

The Raëumlians

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

well this is just shocking I tell you just shocking. A man who starts a wacko sex cult so he can have sex with numerous women doesnt make a good husband. I am floored the telegraph should get the pulitzer

[wingnuts'nbolts]

These people are conartists, plain and simple. As was the leader of the poor misguided cult that thought Haley's comet was coming to get them and commited mass suicide to be
ready. It is disgraceful that they get any attention. They have cloned nobody, but would love to take your money if you fall for it and think you, too, can travel to the stars.
I am disgusted by the whole sham and the media coverage of people who should be incarcerated for the rest of their lives for fraud of the worst kind. Put up or shut up, you awful evil people.

[FITZ]

It does seem as though they aren't too fond of telling the truth either.

[FITZ]

They got their 15 minutes of fame and hopefully we'll never hear about them again......except maybe when they decide to join some space ship when the next comet comes by.

[vetvetdoug]

How much any of you all want to bet this guy, Vorilhon, is going to be another sperminator? I bet the Vegas odds are ten to one.

[DainBramage]

“I know my sister,” said Vorilhon’s aunt Therese. “Little green men weren’t her type.”

But no mention of little green pills I see..

[Free State Four]

a French word meaning both gherkin and nincompoop.

Well, at least the family has got him pegged. So often, they are the last to know. (Although, I don't know how you could miss it in this case!)

[Paul Atreides]

“He was completely depraved and liked to be surrounded by young girls.”

If Janet Reno was in power, she'd put a stop to that; you know, for the girls' sakes.

[Paul Atreides]

What gets me is how the media reported this, without seeing any evidence first. I suppose if some loon came up to them claiming to be Napoleon, they would report it first and then ask for proof. The media is just so disenchanted with the lack of a scandal to pin on Bush that they have to generate a controversy that doesn't exist.

[Timesink]

Terrible husband, but fashion MAVEN! I'd kill to know where he gets those circa-1980 "Buck Rogers" TV show outfits.

[dighton]

“I know my sister,” said Vorilhon’s aunt Therese. “Little green men weren’t her type.”

[Chemnitz]

Poor news week, that's what I say. These creeps were not worth mentioning in the local shopper, let alone in the national media.

[Six Bells]

"His aunt added that whenever Rael, whose real name is Claude Vorilhon, spoke about the aliens who cloned him, his family would call him 'cornichon', a French word meaning both gherkin and nincompoop."

No man should have to put up with that kind of abuse. It's just a miracle that he escaped with any self-esteem at all.

[maestro]

......In the mid-Seventies Vorilhon published his first book, in which he claimed to be the aliens? messenger on Earth.

LOL....................Agency!

:-)

/sarcasm

[hellinahandcart]

“cornichon”, a French word meaning both gherkin and nincompoop.

Seeing as how a cornichon is a tiny little pickle, I think it's safe to say his family was calling him the equivalent of a putz.

[Paul Atreides]

Seeing as how a cornichon is a tiny little pickle

Maybe that was another department in which his wife was dissatisfied.

[dighton]

"The best gherkins are small and straight; too wide or too bent and the customer gets fewer gherkins to the jar."

[hellinahandcart]

Well, if my husband expected me to cook for a gaggle of his groupies every weekend, I wouldn't care if he had the biggest pickle in the barrel.

[demnomo]

"Seeing as how a cornichon is a tiny little pickle..." Maybe that was another department in which his wife was dissatisfied.

He obviously inherited that aspect of his physiology from his father's side. Little green men are not known for their--ahem--size. At least that's what he tells the young chicks. ;)