Édouard Stern

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Édouard Stern (born October 18, 1954 in Paris , † February 28, 2005 in Geneva ) was a French banker , financier and one of the richest men in France , who was murdered by his lover Cécile B. under spectacular circumstances.

Life

Édouard Stern came from the traditional Stern banking family . His ancestor, Jacob Samuel Hayum (1780–1833), founded the Jacob SH Stern banking house in Frankfurt am Main in 1805 . His descendants later founded other banks in Paris and London . Édouard Stern graduated from ESSEC and took over the management of the family-owned Banque Stern in 1986 , and in 1988 he sold the bank. From 1992 to 1997 he was director of the French investment bank Lazard .

From 2002 he was on the board of directors of the chemical company Rhodia . He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the electrical parts manufacturer Delta and on the board of the cigarette manufacturer Altadis and the Israeli venture financier Yozma .

In 1982 he married Béatrice David-Weill , the eldest daughter of Michel David-Weill , president of the investment bank Lazard. They had three children and had been divorced since 1998.

Assassination and Murder Trial

Stern was found dead with four gunshot wounds in his Geneva apartment on March 1, 2005. When the police found the body, it was wearing a latex suit and was handcuffed. On March 16, 2005, Cécile B., who had had a sexual relationship with Stern for years, was arrested as a suspect. She made a confession.

A first public hearing of the alleged murderer took place on December 19, 2007 before the Geneva Prosecution. The criminal trial lasted from June 10 to 18, 2009. The perpetrator was found guilty of the willful killing of Édouard Stern and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. A psychiatric report had confirmed that she was slightly less responsible for guilt , but excluded manslaughter in the affect . A million dollars promised by Stern and later blocked, as well as the banker's intentions to separate, had been cited by the jury as triggering elements of the bloody act.

On November 10, 2010, after serving 2/3 of her sentence, the offender was released early from prison for good conduct. The remainder of the sentence was suspended for conditional execution. She was expelled to France.

Movie

Director and screenwriter Olivier Assayas was inspired by the Édouard Stern case for his film Boarding Gate (2007).

literature

  • Airy Routier: Le fils du serpent: Vie et mort du banquier Stern. Albin Michel. Paris 2005. ISBN 2-226-15997-5
  • Valérie Duby, Alain Jourdan: Mort d'un banquier: Les dessous de l'affaire star. Editions Privé. Geneva 2006. ISBN 2-35076-033-2
  • Régis Jauffret : Strictly. From the French by Gaby Wurster, Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-26463-1 (The novel is based on real events; the author was a process observer).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary on telegraph.co.uk of March 5, 2005 , accessed July 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Rhodia probe keeps dogging French official. (Archive)
  3. ^ Affaire Stern. Cécile Brossard est libre ... et au cinema , Parismatch on January 10, 2013
  4. ↑ Richard Diethelm: It's about sex, lies and a lot of money. Tages-Anzeiger , December 19, 2007, accessed August 28, 2009 .
  5. ↑ swissinfo : Eight and a half years imprisonment in the Stern affair. June 18, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Eight and a half years for a bloody deed against banker Stern in: NZZ Online from June 18, 2009
  7. ↑ Cécile B. is free and out of the country in: 20 minutes from November 10, 2010
  8. ↑ Banker Stern's killer gets freedom back in: Tages-Anzeiger from November 2, 2010
  9. ↑ Boarding Gate in: filmstarts.de, accessed on November 3, 2010
  10. ↑ Boarding gate in the Internet Movie Database
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French banker and financier
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2005
Place of death Geneva