Businessman Jean-Yves Le Fur, ex-husband of director Maïwenn, died at 59

The 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 (Hauts-de-Seine), AFP learned on Tuesday February 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 And Number. With the writer Frédéric Beigbeder, it was released in 2013 Hima 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 fashion world and celebrities, Jean-Yves Le Fur sometimes appeared in the newspapers himself: he was briefly engaged to Stéphanie of Monaco in April 1990.