Monaco's former intelligence adviser says the prince owes him money for cover ups.

[Helen Reyes]

Might just be a grifter fishing for a grand Gypsy switch. BBC says he's only worth 2 billion euros, but manages to get around despite the monetary handicap. He was just on BBC World or some news channel the other day talking about the Copenhagen Climate Orgy in December, as a bona fide Arctic explorer from a long line of Arctic explorers.

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That was until he admitted he had fathered a son - Alexandre Coste - to a French-Togolese air stewardess during a relationship of several years.

He confirmed the news at the end of the three-month mourning period for his father, Prince Rainer - and days before his assumption of Monaco's throne.

The boy, while set to benefit from some of his father's considerable fortune estimated at some 2bn euros ($2.4bn), is not in line to succeed Albert because Monaco's constitution requires its rulers to be born in wedlock.

In 2002, the principality's constitution was changed so the Grimaldi dynasty could continue through the female line if the ruler died without an heir.

But Albert also told French television on Monday that other paternity suits were a possibility, although he refused to confirm or deny that he had fathered other children.

"I know there are other people who present more or less the same case," he said. But when asked if such paternity claims were false, he replied: "We will answer that when the time comes."

"Comments like, 'At his age, he should be married!' have always stupefied me."
--Prince Albert