Romain Rabillard, a corporate finance associate in Shearman & Sterling's Paris office, was photographed waving what appeared to be a gun while chauffering English socialite Pippa Middleton, sister-in-law of Prince William, the heir to the British crown, around the City of Lights in his Audi convertible over the weekend.
British tabloids such as The Sun practically fell over themselves to identify Rabillard, 36 as the "hot-shot lawyer" at the center of the incident. Meanwhile, various British and French media outlets reported that unnamed individuals riding with Rabillard and Middleton—in Paris to celebrate French fashion designer Viscount Arthur de Soultrait's birthday—claim the "gun" in question was actually a "children's toy" pointed at the sidewalk shutterbugs as a joke.
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