The dazzling French twins Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff have died.
Just six days after his brother, Grichka Bogdanoff succumbed to the effects of Covid 19 in a Paris hospital.
According to their lawyer, the 72-year-old twins had not been vaccinated.
However, they were not opposed to vaccination, but had hoped to be protected from the pandemic through their healthy lifestyle.
Both were admitted to the corona intensive care unit in mid-December.
Michaela Wiegel
Political correspondent based in Paris.
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They achieved fame on television through science fiction shows and the pseudoscientific program "Temps X".
They adorned themselves with a doctorate in physics and introduced themselves to the French as geniuses.
"When we were three we could play the piano, six could drive a car, we passed our Abitur at 14, and we had a pilot's license at 16," was her self-narrative.
The twins, who were born in the south of France, also claimed to have a Russian princess among their ancestors.
In the past few years, they were mainly noticed because of their facial surgeries, which gave them the appearance of aliens.
In an interview, Igor Bogdanoff denied using botox or undergoing cosmetic surgery.
He said he and his brother would try "experimental methods".
Much in her life was as vague as the answer.
Their doctoral supervisor reported that he had only given them the title in his will, but was not sure that they were capable of scientific work.
At the end of January, the twins had to answer a fraud case in court.
As a participant in the program "Mask Singer", you are said to have cheated a millionaire out of 1.5 million euros in 2008.