The writer Paul-Loup Sulitzer died at the age of 78

The successful writer Paul-Loup Sulitzer died at the age of 78, announces his daughter this Thursday. The former businessman had lived in Mauritius for several months.

“He died this morning at the hospital following an stroke,” said Olivia Sulitzer, adding that his father, a prolific author of politico-financial thrillers, had been hospitalized several days ago after a fall.

Setbacks after a prosperous period

During the 1980s, this native of Boulogne (Hauts-de-Seine) and former boss of a keychain company had multiplied the bestsellers with explicit titles (“money”, “cash”, “fortune” …) And continued to meet immense public success with “the Sulitzer diet”, its weight loss method.

In these fasting years, he lived in an Italian palace of 450 m2 in Paris, has a villa in Saint-Tropez and a Ranch in Arizona, master paintings or a Ferrari, according to his confidences at L’Obs in 2018.

The setbacks had accumulated from the early 2000s. Victim in 2004 of a stroke, he also saw an complicated divorce with an interminable legal battle around his fortune with his third wife, Delphine Jacobson.

He was then implicated in the sprawling Angolagate affair (a sale of weapons in Angola in the 1990s). Sentenced in 2009 for concealment of abuse of corporate goods, he will finally be released on appeal but emerges considerably weakened from this procedure.

“I was ten years under judicial supervision, I was taken my passport. My career as an international financial advisor was discredited and I made two comas, “he said in 2011, going from” flamboyant multimillionaire status to that of ruined “.

Father of four children born from several unions, he was an officer of the National Order of Merit but, after Angolagate, was excluded from it.

He had been discreet in recent years, living in Belgium and Nice, and suffered from health problems, according to his daughter Olivia. “He had left to live in Mauritius to resume a little health,” she said on Thursday.