Alexis Gruss, the king of the equestrian circus, is dead. The patriarch of the Gruss family died Saturday morning at Saint-Joseph hospital in Paris of heart failure.

The religious ceremony will be celebrated in the Saint Roch church in Paris (1st), on Thursday April 11 at 9:30 a.m. The family paid tribute to him: “It is with immense pain and sadness that the Grüss family announces the death today, Saturday April 6, 2024.”