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Frédéric Mitterrand Dies: Flamboyant, Controversial Former French Culture Minister With A Passion For Brad Pitt Was 76

His other credits included the 1995 musical film Madame Butterfly, which was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for U.S., as well as bio-docs devoted to Grace Kelly, Lana Turner and Christian Dior. This work would land him in hot water after far-right politician Marine Le Pen condemned him a few months into his ministership in 2009 for a passage in which the narrator talks about paying for sex with boys during a trip to Thailand. Mitterrand was already in the eye of a political storm having sparked anger for an impassioned speech in defence of Roman Polanski a few weeks earlier, following the director’s detention at Zurich airport at the request of the U.S. authorities in relation to outstanding 1977 rape charges.

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