Igor Bogdanoff, one of the two star twins of the 1980s for launching France's first science fiction television show, died Monday, January 3 at the age of 72, six days after his brother Grichka, announced his agent at AFP.

The family did not wish to communicate on the cause of the death of Igor Bogdanoff, which occurred Monday afternoon in a Parisian hospital. 

Her twin brother, Grichka, died on December 28, after several days of hospitalization and a coma.

There too, the family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death, but relatives had assured that he was not vaccinated and that he had died of Covid-19.

Igor Bogdanoff had also been hospitalized since mid-December.

He was not vaccinated, as was his brother Grichka. 

TV stars 

Made famous in the 1980s by their science fiction show "Temps X" on TF1, where they evolved in a spaceship setting with their futuristic suits, Igor and Grichka then became the object of mockery for their deeply transformed faces. , which they themselves had qualified as "extraterrestrials".

Their scientific works had also aroused controversy and they had drawn the wrath of part of the scientific community, criticizing the "low value" of their work.

For some time now, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff had a project to cover their cult show "Temps X" with the Canal + group. 

Accused of fraud

Much mystery still surrounds the biography of the twins, who encountered many legal troubles.

They had been sent back in January to correctional for "swindle".

The trial was scheduled to take place on January 20, 21 and 27, 2022.

The twins were accused of defrauding a millionaire with bipolar disorder to settle their financial woes.

They both appeared publicly on November 20 at the Salle Gaveau, in Paris, to lead a debate on the occasion of the publication of the best-selling book "Dieu, la science, les evidence", by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies (ed. Guy Tredaniel).

With AFP

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