Maïwenn is “devastated”. The director announced on Tuesday the death of her son’s father, her ex-companion Jean-Yves Le Fur, 59, who died on Sunday surrounded by his loved ones. Playboy of the 1980s and 90s, he notably co-founded the magazines DS And Number, and was displayed on the arm of Stéphanie de Monaco or even the top Karen Mulder. In 2013, he relaunched the magazine Him with Frédéric Beigbeder. According to the site AudienceJean-Yves Le Fur died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
“Jean-Yves Le Fur, the love of my life, the father of my son Diego, and the father-in-law of my daughter Shanna, left on Sunday morning in my arms and those of our son, under the protection of Frédérick, his big brother, and Jaky, his lifelong friend,” Maïwenn announced on Instagram.
Figure of Parisian nights
As a teenager, Jean-Yves Le Fur played tennis in Nice with a certain Yannick Noah. In 1990, Stéphanie of Monaco fell under his spell but their engagement remained a dead letter. The Fur rebounds in the capital. At the beginning of the 1990s, he frequented modeling agents, notably at Bains Douches, a temple of Parisian nightlife, and surrounded himself with the biggest models. He notably co-produced several documentaries for TF1 and Canal+ then launched dolls for Hasbro bearing the likeness of Claudia Schiffer, Karen Mulder and Naomi Campbell, intended to compete with Barbie, before becoming a media man.
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