By Le Figaro with AFP
Published on 04/02/2024 at 10:52 p.m., Updated on 04/03/2024 at 09:03 a.m.
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Businessman Jean-Yves Le Fur, invested in the world of media, died of “disease” at the age of 59 on Sunday morning at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, we learned on Tuesday April 2 from the entourage of his ex-wife, the actress and director Maïwenn. “Jean-Yves Le Fur, the love of my life, the father of my son Diego, the father-in-law of my daughter Shanna, left on Sunday morning in my arms and those of our son (…) We are all devastated”Maïwenn had posted a little earlier on Instagram.
Jean-Yves Le Fur successfully launched two magazines at the end of the 90s, the feminine DS et Number. With the writer Frédéric Beigbeder, in 2013 he re-released Lui, a legendary men’s magazine from the 1970s. The businessman had also been director of a modeling agency and producer of shows on top models, including Claudia Schiffer for TF1 in 1995. Well known in the world of fashion and celebrities, Jean-Yves Le Fur sometimes appeared in the newspapers himself: he had been engaged briefly to Stéphanie de Monaco in April 1990.