Jean-Yves Le Fur, famous businessman invested in the media, died at 59. His ex-wife, actress and director Maïwenn, paid tribute to him on Instagram.
He successfully launched two magazines at the end of the 90s, the women's magazine "DS" and "Number". With the writer Frédéric Beigbeder, he re-released “Lui”, a legendary men's magazine from the 1970s, in 2013. He had also been director of a modeling agency and producer of programs on top models, including Claudia Schiffer for TF1 in 1995.