Reporters Seek Monaco Prince's Daughter

Student Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, the 14-year-old out-of-wedlock daughter of Monaco's Prince Albert II , walks outside St. Margaret's Episcopal school in Palm Desert, Calif., Thursday, June 1, 2006. Jazmin is the second out-of-wedlock child to be legally acknowledged by the 48-year-old bachelor prince who assumed the throne of the 700-year-old dynasty less than a year ago. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (Nick Ut - AP)

Her name has appeared in The Desert Sun several times over the years when she made her school's honor role, won her science and student of the month awards and when she was a soloist in a school choir that performed with Barry Manilow.

French media reported her mother is a former waitress, and state records list a Tamara Jean Rotolo as a salesperson at a Palm Desert real estate office.

Confirmation that the 48-year-old bachelor prince was Jazmin's father came less than a year after Albert acknowledged that he fathered a 3-year-old boy out of wedlock with a former flight attendant.

French media reports said he had a fling with Jazmin's mother when she vacationed on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France in 1991. Jazmin's March 4, 1992, Riverside County birth certificate lists her father as Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi of Monaco.

Rotolo's father, 75-year-old Sam Rotolo of Fremont, said it was no secret to the family who Jazmin's father was. He said Albert provided financial support over the years.

The retired autoworker said his daughter, Tamara, was raised in his middle-class home. Her mother died in 2002, he said.

"She's a wonderful young woman," Sam Rotolo said.

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Associated Press Writer Jordan Robertson in Fremont contributed to this report.