Monaco prince's daughter is honor student

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was an honor student, science fair winner and student of the month. But she is the daughter of a prince. It was normal for Jazmin on Friday as she returned to her eighth-grade classroom, where she has a week left before graduation. It was a far cry from the chaos she found when she arrived Thursday.

Albert had initially planned to keep his parentage of Jazmin Grace Rotolo secret until she reached adulthood, but "the situation had become untenable for her" in recent weeks amid increasing speculation about her father, Lacoste said, as reports “Pravda.ru” earlier.

Prince Albert II of Monaco acknowledged through his lawyer that the 14-year-old girl is his out-of-wedlock daughter. Albert "officially recognizes a paternity that was legally established a few weeks ago," attorney Thierry Lacoste said in an interview published Thursday in France's Le Figaro.

The revelation sent hordes of reporters and photographers flocking to the desert two hours east of Los Angeles, where residents quickly responded protectively. "Leave that poor girl alone!" a woman in a car yelled Thursday at reporters and photographers gathered across the street from St. Margaret's Episcopal School. Police warned they would be arrested if they set foot on school grounds.

Finally, at the end of the school day, a ponytailed blond girl in a school uniform was escorted to an armored Lincoln Navigator registered to Los Angeles security expert Gavin de Becker's firm. The girl did not respond to reporters' shouted questions and left, seated in the back of the SUV with two bodyguards up front, escorted by two sheriff's deputies on motorcycles.

The same SUV was later seen leaving a gated country club and resort community with waterfalls and lush landscaping. A security guard turned away a reporter requesting to visit the girl's mother, 44-year-old Tamara Rotolo, reports the AP.

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