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                 BENOIT BLANC'S OFFICIAL WIKIPEDIA PAGE

After the success proceeding the movie Knives Out, Benoit Blanc became a figure of keen public interest. Once being mentioned by the director as the main source of inspiration to the movie, people began to grow more and more curious about the real life detective. His Wikipedia page was set up in December of 2019, following the premiere and global success of the picture, and some dedicated fans began to gather all the information they could find on the detective. It came as a surprise to them to see so many news articles linked to his name, all exclusively related to some of the most high profile cases of the last decade. 

𝙻𝙰𝚄𝚁𝙰 𝙳𝙴𝚁𝙽 - 𝙰 𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙶𝙾𝙾𝙳 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳. 

It wouldn't be much of a stretch to call Laura one of Blanc's closest friends. He and the actress met around 2012, during a case Blanc had been working in Los Angeles. So many NDAs were signed due to the highly public people involved that little else is known about the real circumstances of their first encounter, but it's a fact that the one thing that came out of it was their friendship. 

Dern and Blanc get along swimmingly, often seen commenting on each other's posts on social media and hanging out in person when they happen to be in the same city. The last time he stayed in LA for an extended period of time, Blanc and Dern were spotted together so often that the press began to speculate a romance between the tow. Such claims were soon denied by the pair, but they left a permanent mark on the detective's Wikipedia page nonetheless.

Laura is one of the few people Blanc openly admits to being friends to, and one of the even fewer whose praises he sings frequently. She was the one who introduced him to director Rian Jo/hnson, which ultimately led to the two getting together to make the series of movies based on Blanc and his cases. 

𝚂𝙸𝙼𝙾𝙽 𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙲𝙻𝙸𝙵𝙵 - 𝙰 𝚁𝙴𝙶𝚄𝙻𝙰𝚁 𝙲𝙻𝙸𝙴𝙽𝚃.

Blanc and Ratcliff met under a cloud of tragedy, which is typically the way with most of the investigator’s connections. Simon had hired Blanc’s services to uncover the truth about his younger brother’s death, which at the time had been ruled out as an accident. Alas, Blanc rose to the occasion and found out that such accident had been arranged by one of Ratcliff’s considerable enemies. After the case had been solved, it was reported that the Englishman held the private investigator at the highest regard, and was infinitely grateful for the work.

Simon Ratcliff, one of the wealthiest men in England, began to rely more heavily on Blanc’s services after the first time their paths crossed. With a great many people who saw him as a target, Simon was often a victim of theft. His considerable collection of paintings, statues and objects d'art  – spread all throughout the globe – occasionally found itself missing one or two artefacts. At every single one of such occasions, Mr. Benoit Blanc has been called to recover the piece and identify its thief. He has yet to fail in this duty.

𝙳𝚁. 𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙰𝚂 𝙶𝚁𝙴𝙴𝙽𝚆𝙾𝙾𝙳  -   𝙰 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳

Blanc was a lot more prone to injury in his earlier years of investigating, where his method was not yet set in stone and he’d be quicker to jump into action rather than think things through. It resulted in quite a lot of unnecessary physical confrontations, many of which needed tending to afterwards. It was just his luck that at the time, while living in New York, Benoit’s next door neighbour was a man as good as Dr. Greenwood.

The older man had caught sight of then young and bloody lad in the hallway of their floor and taken him in to tend to his injuries. A medical practitioner, Elias was just was Benoit had needed to ensure that he would live to fight another day. Their relationship had begun strictly professional at first, with Dr. Greenwood paying assistance to Benoit when he needed. However, a friendship between the two soon blossomed and they begun hanging out even when Blanc hadn’t been beaten to a pulp.

𝙴𝚅𝙰 𝚁𝙾𝙻𝙵𝙴  -  𝙰𝙽 𝙸𝙼𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙱𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚈

Eva Rolfe is a world-class violinist, the very best of her field. She was a key part of Blanc’s first high profile case, which concerned the murder of her father, the obnoxiously wealthy banker Frederick Rolfe. While working the case, Blanc became close with the victim’s daughter, having her by his side through every step of the ordeal, as the men who had her father killed had their eyes on her next. The intensity of circumstances made fast friends out of the two, and then something more. Blanc fell in love with the musician, though he would never admit to it.

Though the feeling was reciprocated, the two of them knew better than to expect the romance to ever work out. Much like everything else in Blanc’s life, their story was far fromordinary. They keep in touch through letters, and only meet in person when Eva has a concert at city that Blanc is currently in. She will send two front row tickets to his office, always accompanied by a note: You can only bring someone that can make you take your eyes off me. As Blanc has never met such a person, he has yet to make use of the second ticket. He suspects he never will.

𝙱𝙸𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝚁𝚂𝙷𝙰𝙻𝙻  -  𝙰 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙲𝚃 𝙰𝚃𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙽𝙴𝚈

Marshall was not yet a DA when she and Blanc first crossed paths. At first, they had gotten along well enough. She was a prosecutor and he was a star witness in the case she was working against the defendant. On that occasion, she had nothing but high praise to say about the detective whose testimony helped her sway the jury to her side. Her affection for Blanc only lasted until the next case. The next time he took the stand before Marshall, Blanc was adamant in proving that the state had the wrong person. He made her job a living hell then. She was not so fond of him anymore.

Such is the relationship between Bianca Marshall and Benoit Blanc, whose professions keep them going from allies to opponents from case to case. Outside of court, the two have a perfectly civil relationship. Though they may not be the best of friends, they are respectful acquaintances. Blanc admires the esquire greatly, said as much when a journalist approached him about Marshall’s appointment to the DA’s office while they were both involved in yet another high profile trial.

There was an occasion where the two were caught having brunch together while the detective was not involved in any form of trial, and the prosecutor appeared in court the day after with a rather incredible story weaved against the defendant based solely on the evidences her office had gathered. Papers said Marshall did some remarkable detective work.

𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙰 𝙽𝙰𝙿𝙸𝙴𝚁  -  𝙰 𝚁𝙸𝚅𝙰𝙻.

Anna is the daughter of a renowned master thief, Evelyn Napier. Keen to get out of her mother’s shadow, Anna began to make a name for herself by pulling a series of elaborate cons all throughout Europe. Her most remarkable one being a series of art thefts around Tuscany, chiefly in Florence, where works by Old Masters were disappearing mysteriously. It was the reason why Benoit Blanc spent a season on the city.

To this day, Blanc openly admits these were the most fascinating theft cases he’s ever worked on. His preference for mysteries involving killers faded in the background during the time of Anna’s thieving spree, where she kept him on his toes at every turn. The Florentine papers claimed it was a game of cat and mouse for the ages, always uncertain who was the cat and who was the mouse. In the most honest version of it, the roles were swapped often.