Jean-Yves Le Fur died of "illness" on Sunday morning at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His ex-wife Maïwenn announced his death on her Instagram account on April 2.

He was also the father of their son Diego and the stepfather of her daughter Shanna, born in 1993 from her union with Luc Besson. Mon Roi tells the love story between a woman (Emmanuelle Bercot) and a narcissistic pervert (Vincent Cassel)