Jean-Luc Delarue: how did the animator die at just 48 years old?

On August 23, 2012, almost 10 years ago to the day, the world of television was in mourning on learning of the death at the age of 48 of Jean-Luc Delarue. This Wednesday, August 24 at 9 p.m., TF1 offers a documentary that traces the life and career of the host. For the occasion, Télé Star invites you to come back to the last months of Jean-Luc Delarue and to discover in particular how the host died.

On December 2, 2011, Jean-Luc Delarue announced, during a press conference organized at the headquarters of France Télévisions, that he was suffering from cancer. After several months of struggle, the host died on the morning of August 23, 2012 in a room at the American hospital in Neuilly. from stomach and peritoneal cancer. He was only 48 years old. He is buried in the cemetery of Thiais, in the Val-de-Marne. His burial is located in a division of the cemetery where the vaults of Muslim families are grouped. Shortly after his death, his father revealed that his son had converted to Islam. Information denied by Anissa, his last wife.

Death of Jean-Luc Delarue: why a war of inheritance broke out on the death of the host?

In his will, written a few months before his death, Jean-Luc Delarue had decided to bequeath his real estate and the majority of the pieces of his art collection to Anissa Khelifi, his last wife. The host bequeathed the rest, and in particular his company Reservoir Prod as well as half of the real estate, to his son Jean Delarue-Bost, then 6 years old. Jean-Luc Delarue also chooses an agent in the person of Arnaud Garchy, his former press officer. The latter must manage the property in the name and on behalf of his son until the majority of the latter. In his will, the facilitator stipulates that Jean’s mother, Élisabeth Bost, “will have neither the legal administration nor the enjoyment of the property that he would collect in my estate, which will be administered, until the majority or the emancipation of Jean, by Arnaud Garchy”. Elisabeth Bost then brings this case to court where she loses because the reason for the mandate, Jean’s minority, is, according to the law, a legitimate and serious interest.

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