Businessman Jean-Yves Le Fur, invested in the world of media, died of “illness” at the age of 59, Sunday March 31 morning, at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine , announced on Tuesday April 2, 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 1990s, the feminine DS and Numéro. With the writer Frédéric Beigbeder, in 2013 he re-released Lui magazine, a legendary men’s publication from the 1970s.
Director of a modeling agency
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 world of fashion and celebrities, Jean-Yves Le Fur sometimes appeared in the newspapers himself: he had been engaged briefly to Stéphanie de Monaco in April 1990.
