Dior Executive Mathilde Favier & Producer Nicolas Altmayer Killed in Car Accident in France
Authorities opened an involuntary manslaughter investigation after the crash killed producer Nicolas Altmayer and Dior executive Mathilde Favier, officials said.
- On Monday, French film producer Nicolas Altmayer, 61, and Dior public relations executive Mathilde Favier, 57, died in a car accident in western France around 4 p.m.
- Altmayer was a prominent independent producer behind the 'OSS 117' franchise and films by François Ozon and Bertrand Bonello, while Favier served as director of public relations for Dior Couture, managing VIP relations with celebrities including Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence.
- LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault called Favier "an exceptional woman whose communicative joy, talent and loyalty were exemplary." Filmmaker Franck Gastambide described Altmayer as his mentor, saying "For 15 years, he was not only my producer but also my mentor, the father I would have wanted to have."
- Deputy prosecutor Nicolas Leclainche told AFP their vehicle "hit a heavy goods vehicle" while overtaking another. An investigation for involuntary manslaughter has been opened to determine the crash's circumstances.
- Altmayer leaves a legacy of films by François Ozon and Bertrand Bonello, while Favier founded Esthétique & Cancer and published the 2024 book Living Beautifully in Paris as a personal guide to the French capital.
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Le Journal de QuebecAn investigation for "involuntary manslaughter by driver" opened after the road accident in which Nicolas Altmayer and Mathilde Favier were killed
After the death of Mathilde Favier and Nicolas Altmayer in a serious road accident on 17 August last, the driver of the truck that the couple's car hit in the opposite direction was referred to a...
International media confirmed the death of the fashion figure, in an accident in France. Here are the details.
France was recently shocked by the news of a car accident on a local road in the west of the country, in which film producer Nicolas Altmayer and his partner, Dior CEO Mathilde Favier, died. The accident occurred on Monday, August 17, and no further details are known.
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