He left us on April 27, 1964 at the age of 59, as announced by the actress and director Maïwenn, who shared his life for a long time, and with whom she had a son, Diego. Jean-Yves le Fur was a man who seduced very pretty women during his life, such as Karen Mulder and Laetitia Casta and Marie Gillain. An irresistible seducer, he failed to marry Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, to whom he was engaged in 1990.
Repudiated by the princely family
At the time, in addition to being the daughter of Rainier of Monaco, and the late Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly, Stéphanie was also a variety singer, launched by the hit “Hurricane“. Unfortunately, the young woman did not go to the altar with Jean-Yves le Fur. In June 1990, a few weeks before the ceremony, everything was canceled by the bride’s family. The engagement had cost 120 000 francs. And in the columns of Paris Match, which returns to this affair, we learn that it was the modest origins of the groom which earned him the status of “repudiated” by the Grimaldi family.
Modest origin and stay in prison
Indeed, the smitten young man would have “lied to his future father-in-law” on two particularly touching points. “He was not the son of a wealthy Parisian architect, but born in Créteil to Roger Le Fur, a butcher’s installer, and a certain Rosy” reports Paris Match. Worse still, in March 1985, he had a short stay of one month in prison, in Fleury-Mérogis for “theft, scams, attempted fraud, falsification of documents, obtaining a receipt from a police officer by false declaration“. A big no for Stéphanie’s dad.
And this rejection would have “left real wounds” for the French businessman, specify our colleagues. For her part, Stéphanie of Monaco finally married her bodyguard, Daniel Ducruet. She was then in a relationship with Jean-Raymond Gottlieb, also a bodyguard, and Adans Lopez Peres, a circus acrobat.