Meet Prince Albert of Monaco’s daughter, ‘striking royal’ Jazmin Grace Grimaldi – The Scarlet M star, named after grandmother Grace Kelly, is on the picket line with SAG-AFTRA union members

Aug 6 , 2023

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and her father, Prince Albert. Photos: @jazmingrimaldi/Instagram

Prince Albert of Monaco’s eldest daughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi might have no claim to the throne of Monaco, but that hasn’t stopped her from earning her place in the spotlight.

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi is the Prince of Monaco’s eldest daughter. Photo: @jazmingrimaldi/Instagram

The 31-year-old, whose middle name comes from her paternal grandmother Grace Kelly, has worked for several years as a professional actress and has appeared in critically acclaimed shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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And now she’s joining fellow actors and members of the SAG-AFTRA union in striking on the picket line.

Grimaldi posted picture of picket signs

In a series of Instagram posts, Grimaldi is seen holding up SAG-AFTRA picket signs and posing with her dog Frankie Bleu, who she calls her “strike dog”.

“I’m all about Hot Girl Summer but we creative beauties had to pivot to Hot Picket Summer!!!! THE WORKERS UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED,” Grimaldi wrote in the caption of one Instagram post.

Hollywood writers have been on strike since May and got a boost in exposure when members of SAG-AFTRA also called a strike earlier this month. Now, more than 160,000 members are withholding their labour from Hollywood companies like Netflix, NBC Universal and Paramount in an effort to fight for better wages, among other issues.

Grimaldi grew up in the US

Young Jazmin Grimaldi. Photo: @jazmingrimaldi/Instagram

Grimaldi is the daughter of Prince Albert and Tamara Rotolo. She was born before Albert married Princess Charlene of Monaco and fathered twins Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques, who are now eight. He also shares a son, 19-year-old Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste, with a different woman, Nicole Coste.

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Jazmin Grimaldi and her mother, Tamaro Rotolo. Photo: @jazmingrimaldi/Instagram

Grimaldi was raised in southern California by her mother, who came from a working-class background and reportedly worked as a waitress before she met Albert. The Los Angeles Times reported in 2006 that she filed a lawsuit in 1992, the same year Grimaldi was born, alleging that Albert had fathered her daughter and that she was seeking child support from the royal. However, a Riverside County Superior Court judge dismissed it on jurisdictional grounds.

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi with her father Prince Albert II. Photo: @jazmingrimaldi/Instagram

The Times reported that her parents met while Rotolo was holidaying in the Côte d’Azur region of France, near Monaco, citing European press from the time Grimaldi was revealed to be Albert’s daughter.

Jazmin Grimaldi and her father, Prince Albert. Photo: @jazmingrimaldi/Instagram

In 2001, Rotolo filed a malpractice suit in Los Angeles against her lawyer, claiming they had not advised her to file a paternity suit in Monaco before 1994, in order to maintain her legal rights. Grimaldi met her father for the first time in 2004 when she was 11 years old.

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Grimaldi’s parentage was finally publicly confirmed in 2006.

Grimaldi and her dog, Frankie Bleu. Photo: @littlebearpomsky/Instagram

“I was 14, getting ready to go to high school, when it hit the media that my father had a daughter, and it was me,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2015. “It’s a difficult time for any young adult, and it was an adjustment to have that attention. But I knew it was going to come someday.”

Grimaldi and her father now appear to share a close relationship, and she has been photographed alongside him and his family multiple times.

This article originally appeared on Insider.

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The daughter of Prince Albert of Monaco and waitress Tamara Rotolo, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was born before her father married Princess Charlene, who he now shares 2 kids with
The American actress starred in series like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but didn’t meet her dad until she was 11 – and recently posted her support for fellow striking SAG-AFTRA members