France: death at 72 of Igor Bogdanoff, six days after his twin brother Grichka

TV host Igor Bogdanoff (left), accompanied by his brother Grichka, during the presentation of a show by Jean-Paul Gaultier at the Folies Bergères, in December 2018. © AFP / Lucas Barioulet

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

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", wrote his relatives in a message sent by his agent.

The family did not wish to communicate on the causes 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.

Made famous in the 1980s by their science fiction show "Temps X" launched in 1979 on TF1, where they evolved in a spaceship setting with futuristic suits, Igor and Grichka had become the object of mockery for their faces. profoundly transformed that they themselves had called "extraterrestrials".

Their scientific works aroused their share of controversy and earned them the wrath of a part of the scientific community which criticized the "

" of their work. They had been accused of plagiarism by the American astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan for one of their most famous publications, 

, interview with the philosopher Jean Guitton (1991).

 In 2010, the weekly

published extracts from a CNRS report according to which the theses and other articles of the two brothers have "no scientific value".

In 2012, 170 scientists claimed their “right to blame” after the conviction of a CNRS researcher criticizing the writings of the twins.

The weekly

will be convicted of defamation in 2014 but, shortly after, the brothers will however be dismissed in an action brought before the administrative tribunal of Paris against the CNRS.

Much mystery surrounds the biographies of the twins who have encountered numerous legal troubles.

Recently, they marred their plan to revive their cult show 

 with the Canal group.

The two brothers had been sent back to correctional for "swindling a vulnerable person".

The trial was to be held on 20, 21 and 27 January 2022. They were accused of defrauding a millionaire with bipolar disorder to resolve their financial woes and restarting the transmission

.

With AFP

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