Jean-Luc Lagardère, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Luc Lagardère

French businessman

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1928

Place of Birth: Aubiet, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 14-Mar-2003

Profession: businessperson, engineer, entrepreneur

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jean-Luc Lagardère (10 February 1928, Aubiet – 14 March 2003, Paris) was a major French businessman, CEO of the Lagardère Group, one of the largest French conglomerates. Jean-Luc Lagardère was a Supelec engineer.
He began his career in Dassault Aviation.
CEO of Matra in the 1960s, he became famous with success in Formula One and Le Mans.
He later built a large media and defense conglomerate that bears his name.
He was a member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. In 1981, with his friend Daniel Filipacchi, he purchased Hachette magazines, which included the French TV Guide (Tele 7 Jours), and the then-struggling Elle magazine.
Elle was then launched in the U.S., followed by 25 foreign editions.
Filipacchi and Lagardère then expanded Hachette Filipacchi Magazines in the U.S.
with the purchase of Diamandis Communications Inc.
(formerly CBS magazines), including Woman's Day, Car and Driver, Road and Track, Flying, Boating, and many others. He was married to Bethy Lagardère, whose birth name is Elizabeth Pimenta Lucas (Belo Horizonte, 29 March 1949), a socialite and former Brazilian model who settled in France.