2023-07-28 18:42:33
By Benjamin Puech
Posted 1 minute ago, Updated 1 minute ago
Gérard Lebovici with Catherine Deneuve at the César Awards, February 27, 1982. www.bridgemanimages.com/Bridgeman Images
WHEN CRIME IS NO LONGER A FICTION (6/6) – Gérard Lebovici managed Belmondo’s career, financed Truffaut and praised the most radical left. A complex life, a life of secrets. And a brutal death: four bullets in the body, March 5, 1984, in Paris.
Suddenly, the police, journalists, colleagues, friends and enemies began to search his life, seeking to understand the personality, the origins and the vices of this so secretive, so influential man of cinema. We were rewinding the film of his existence. His proximity to the libertarian left, his success in the film industry, his taste for poker, his frequentation of thugs… Guilty people appeared in each chapter. Everyone advanced their hypothesis. But no one found. Or wanted to find? The investigators turned back after three hundred hearings and seven years of investigation. A tough death, a perfect murder: the assassination of agent and producer Gérard Lebovici, on Monday March 5, 1984 in Paris, joined the pantheon of unsolved cases.
It begins, as in any good thriller, with a phone call. Insistent. The man ends up claiming to be “Sabrina”, the daughter of Mesrine (we will come back to this). The secretary hands him the line from his boss. THE…
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