(Paris) Igor Bogdanoff died Monday at the age of 72, less than a week after his brother Grichka, both from COVID-19 contamination according to relatives: the twins were stars of the 1980s television for launching the first science fiction show in France.
“In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff left for the light on Monday January 3, 2022”, wrote his relatives in a message sent by his agent.
The family did not wish to communicate on the causes of the death of Igor Bogdanoff, which occurred Monday afternoon in a Parisian hospital.
Her twin brother Grichka died on December 28, after several days of hospitalization and a coma. There too, the family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death, but relatives had assured that he was not vaccinated and that he had died of COVID-19.
Shortly after Igor’s death, the lawyer for the two brothers, Mr.e Édouard de Lamaze, confirmed on RTL that this new death was due to COVID-19. To the question “Did he die of COVID-19?” “, The lawyer replied:” Yes unfortunately “. However, he refused to confirm that Igor was not vaccinated, indicating that he was “a lawyer, […] not a doctor ”.
Igor Bogdanoff, father of six children born from several unions, had been hospitalized since mid-December, as was his brother.
Luc Ferry, professor of philosophy and former Minister of Education, friend of the two brothers, assured the Parisian, the day after Grichka’s death, that the Bogdanoffs were not vaccinated. He also confirmed that Igor, who was positive for COVID-19, was in intensive care at the time.
Famous and controversial
Made famous in the 1980s by their science fiction show Time X on TF1, where they evolved in a spaceship setting with futuristic suits, Igor and Grichka had become the object of mockery for their deeply transformed faces which they themselves qualified as “extraterrestrials”.
Despite the controversies, Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff have preserved a notoriety, in particular with the quadra and fifties, who followed their emissions when they were children or adolescents. In recent years, they have been recurring guests on Cyril Hanouna’s show, Do not touch My TV !.
Their scientific works aroused their share of controversy and earned them the wrath of a part of the scientific community which criticized the “low value” of their work.
They had been accused of plagiarism by the American astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan for one of their most famous publications, God and science, interview with the philosopher Jean Guitton (1991).
In 2010, the weekly Marianne published extracts from a CNRS report according to which the theses and other articles of the two brothers have “no scientific value”. In 2012, 170 scientists claimed their “right to blame” after the conviction of a CNRS researcher criticizing the writings of the twins.
Marianne will be condemned for defamation in 2014, but, shortly after, the brothers will however be dismissed of an action brought before the administrative tribunal of Paris against the CNRS.
Much mystery surrounds the biographies of the twins who have encountered numerous legal troubles. Recently, they marred their plan to revive their cult show Time X with the Canal group.
The two brothers had been sent back to correctional for “swindling a vulnerable person”. The trial was to take place on January 20, 21 and 27, 2022. They were accused of having defrauded a millionaire suffering from bipolar disorder to settle their financial woes and relaunch the show. Time X.
The victim, Cyrille P., a former wealthy 53-year-old hotelier suffering from bipolar disorder for several years, committed suicide on August 31, 2018, at the height of the investigation, from the cliffs of Etretat (Seine-Maritime) .