Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele

Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle (born July 16, 1951 , † December 16, 2000 in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès ) was a French film actor and art collector. He was the husband of singer Amanda Lear and had a longstanding relationship with the French writer Roger Peyrefitte , who described the homosexual relationship with his adopted son in several of his works.

biography

Born into a French aristocratic family, Alain-Philippe played a supporting role in the award-winning film Heimliche Freundschaften (Original title: Les amitiés particulières) in 1964 , which is based on an autobiographical novel by Peyrefitte. On the set, the author met the then 12-year-old, and the two began a relationship that would last for more than two decades. At the age of 16, Alain-Philippe became the private secretary of Peyrefittes, who later even adopted him and made great financial sacrifices (the equivalent of around € 1.5 million) for him, first to enable him to start his business life, then because of business carelessness to avert impending bankruptcy. Peyrefitte sold his precious library and art collection to pay off his lover's debts. The scandalous circumstances of the sale and its relation to Alain-Philippe form the subject of his novel Herzbube (fr. L'enfant de coeur , 1978), this is figured under the name Astolphe .

Malagnac met Amanda Lear in Paris in 1978 and married her in April 1979 during a stay in the USA. He died in 2000 of smoke inhalation in the fire of a country house he and his wife had recently acquired in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès near Avignon - just six weeks after Roger Peyrefitte's death. Due to the " suicide pact" mentioned by Peyrefitte (in the event of the death of one of the two, the survivor would commit suicide), rumors of this kind emerged, but these could not be proven.

Web links

Alain-Philippe Malagnac in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Le mari d'Amanda Lear mort dans l'incendie de leur maison. In: www.actustar.com:80. December 19, 2000, archived from the original on January 24, 2001 ; Retrieved on July 21, 2018 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Malagnac d'Argens de Villele, Alain-Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Malagnac, Alain-Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French film actor and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1951
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 2000
Place of death	Saint-Etienne-du-Grès , France

[1] Le mari d'Amanda Lear mort dans l'incendie de leur maison. In: www.actustar.com:80. December 19, 2000, archived from the original on January 24, 2001 ; Retrieved on July 21, 2018 (French).