A key figure in the French audiovisual landscape, Jean-Luc Delarue died at the age of 48. Following his disappearance it is his colossal legacy who has caused the most ink to flow. At the heart of this dark affair, the war launched by Elisabeth Bost, his ex, against Anissa, the host’s last wife, with whom he married three months before his death. The idea of the former columnist of C8? Have the marriage contract annulled, considering that it was a union contracted for the sole purpose of inheritance and that Jean-Luc Delarue, in the terminal phase, did not have all his faculties.
It must be said that Elisabeth Bost, mother of Jean-Luc Delarue’s only son, Jean (aged 15 today), was deprived of inheritance – valued at 22 million euros – and excluded from the funeral of the animator and producer. What the one who lost her fight against Anissa Delarue, the justice having nevertheless applied the last wishes of this one, had a hard time digesting. It was in May 2013 that Elisabeth Bost broke the silence, during an interview granted to Paris Match. The one who was in a relationship with Jean-Luc Delarue from 2005 to 2009, keeps this “nice story“, an immense happiness his son Jean. As well as some painful memories, like the many addictions of his ex, now deceased.
No one warned us
As he feels death coming, reported Point at the time of the broadcast of the interview, he decides to exclude his ex from his will. And shares his colossal inheritance between Anissa, his wife, and Jean, his son, 50/50. And he mentions his desire not to see her attend his funeral, just like his own mother. Elisabeth Bost does not digest. She says she discovered this the day before this forbidden funeral. “No one had warned us. I blame those who let a five-year-old boy prepare to go kiss his dadwhen the latter had, in fact, been dead for more than 24 hours“, she delivered.