Roy Horn (left) of the duo of conjurers "Siegfried and Roy" died of coronavirus in Las Vegas, we learned this Saturday. - MediaPunch / REX / SIPA

Extravagant costumes and waterfalls with tigers, snakes or elephants. It was the hallmark of the Las Vegas conjurer duo "Siegfried and Roy". This Friday Roy Horn, half of this pair, died at 75 years of complications related to the new coronavirus. Tested positive at Covid-19 last week, the artist died at Mountain View Hospital in Las Vegas (West).

It was in the entertainment and casino capital that the duo “Siegfried and Roy” became known. Roy Horn, like Siegfried Fischbacher, was of German origin. The duo had to stop after the 2003 attack on Roy Horn by a white Bengal tiger in full spectacle. Seriously injured, it had taken several months to recover and the show had not resumed.

Defender of wildlife conservation

"Today the world has lost one of its great magicians, but I have lost my best friend," said Siegfried Fischbacher in a statement to the American media. "There could be no Siegfried without Roy, nor Roy without Siegfried".

Born in 1944 in Nordenham (Germany), Roy Horn had a taste for animals from a young age with his wolf dog Hexe and Chico, a cheetah adopted at the Bremen zoo. He had met Siegfried Fischbacher in 1957 aboard a cruise ship where the two were performing, and they had joined forces in 1959 to work together in Europe.

The duo had made their debut in Las Vegas in the late 1960s, giving hundreds of shows, especially at the Mirage from 1990 until the tiger attack in 2003. "Siegried and Roy" then only redid '' appeared in 2009 and officially retired in 2010.

Roy Horn devoted a good part of his time to the safeguarding of wild animals. He has always sought to clear Mantacore, the tiger that attacked him.

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