Jean-Luc Lagardere

Jean-Luc Lagardere (of its true name Jean-Lucien Lagardere) (February 10th 1928 with Aubiet - March 14th 2003 with Paris) was a Head of undertaking Industriel and press baron French.


Son only sons Arnaud Lagardere took again the succession of the group.

Biography

His/her father was a peasant of the Gers. Jean-Luc, born without fortune, nor relations, follows studies of Engineer, graduate of Supélec. He begins his career at Dassault aviation. He is chairman of Matra which gains the title in Formule 1 in 1969 thanks to Jackie Stewart under the name of Matra Simca then carries out a triplet with the 24 hours of Mans into 1972,1973 and 1974 with Graham Hill, Gerard Larrousse and especially Henri Pescarolo.
Starting from the Years 1980, it builds immense the Groupe Lagardere in the Défense and the Média S, appearing among the first in the edition with Hachette Livre and the press (Hachette Filipacchi Médias). He directs the Five in the Années 1990 until the April 12th 1992.
Passionné of horse-races, it had taken again a Haras with Bridge-in Ouilly and a famous racing stable with nearly 220 horses and mares of race, that of the Dupres (casaque gray, pink hat). Since 2003, the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere pays homage to him. Its manpower have had for summer acquired by the Aga Khan.

The death

Jean-Luc Lagardere died the March 14th 2003 of the continuations of an surgical operation. The February 27th 2003, it is operated Hanche with the private clinic of the Sport with Paris. Eight days afterwards, the March 7th 2003, Jean-Luc Lagardere, although slightly tired, dines in family with the dressmaker Emanuel Ungaro and Marie-Laure de Villepin, the wife of Dominique de Villepin at the time Foreign Minister of the President of the Republic Jacques Chirac. The March 8th 2003, 75 years old, the owner of Matra is found in the Coma on the ground of its room to sleep. After a few days in Reanimation, he dies in the Hôpital Lariboisière with Paris, the March 14th with 22:59. The diagnosis announced by the department head, the pr. Didier Payen, is a acute Encéphalomyélite auto-immune.
Son wire Arnaud Lagardere succeeds to him.

Suspicion of assassination

Protagonist of the Business Clearstream 2, Jean-Louis Gergorin, vice-president of EADS, affirms that Jean-Luc Lagardere would have in fact assassinated by the Russian Mafia, which would secretly core the Industrie Européenne of the Arme lies. No checking still confirmed these allegations, which are at the base of the anonymous mails addressed to the judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke.

See too

Random links:Music producer | Comparison of the versions of 1925 and 1959 of the Ben-Hur film | Morros of Porto Alegre | Y you mamá también | Julia Wipplinger | Comté_de_Greene,_Tennessee