Singer and actress Marie Laforêt died on Saturday in the Swiss town of Genolier at the age of 80, according to family sources.
The causes of death of the interpreter of successes such as Vendanges de l'amour or Viens, viens, viens have not been specified.
Nicknamed 'the girl with the golden eyes', she acted in 35 films and sold more than 35 million albums, throughout a rather unrefined existence.
"My career is a career of ups and downs but my life is full from beginning to end," said Laforêt who, married five times, was also a theater actress, writer, antiquarian and auctioneer.
Laforêt acted in the movie El exilio de Gardel (Tangos) by Argentine Fernando Solanas.
Maïténa Doumenach, her real name, was born on October 5, 1939 in Soulac-sur-Mer (Gironde), in the southwest of France, the daughter of an industrialist. At the age of 3, she said at 35, she was raped by a neighbor: "It was impossible to talk about it for decades."
As a young woman she was attracted to the convent, but she was passionate about the theater at the Paris high school, and then won an actresses contest organized by Europe 1 in 1959.
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