Gaspard Ulliel is DEAD at 37 years old !

Best thing for him really; his therapy was going nowhere.

Are the jars alright?

This is not a joke

The media in English are still reporting Ulliel as hospitalized. Quel domage!

His death is apparently an internet hoax.

R5 STFU He's really dead you piece of shit

It was previously hoax. Mais aujourd'hui il n'est plus.

Has Tanya Roberts commented yet?

It's real. Terribly sad, I liked him as an actor.

How do we say here... He had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.

Very sad. It would be interesting to know the details. I live in Switzerland and I'm a lifelong skier. Skiing in the Alps is very dangerous especially for people who don't follow the rules. And there are many who don't. The entire region keeps a lid on the deaths.

ok more. apparently a dumb and tragic accident on the slope

"Police and the prosecutor's office would not divulge details of the accident. France Bleu said Ulliel apparently collided with another skier at a crossing point on the slopes, and the other skier was not hospitalized."

Weird. I had no idea who he was but just saw his latest film "More Than Ever". He was really good in it and I looked him up on IMDB. Now this... Sad.

He had a huge cock, but he couldn't live forever.

In 2017, he got the César (French Oscar), for best actor for his performance in the film "Juste la fin du monde" directed by Xavier Dolan

I was going to call bullshit because Wikipedia still refers to Ulliel in the present. But if Le Figaro says he's dead, then he is.

A truly gigantic penis.

This is a tragedy beyond words.

I'm taking to my bed for the rest of the day.

His kiss with Louis Garrel in the movie Saint Laurent turned me on

Quelle horreur

[quote]He had a huge cock

[quote]A truly gigantic penis.

Huge? Gigantic? Some eldergays need to get out more.

R1 WTF are you even talking about???

For R17

R19

Sounds more like you're the one who needs to get out more, instead of just watching porn.

He was so beautiful and did wonderful nude scenes, he will be missed.

That shower scene was one of the most gratuitous in recent years. RIP.

Did we ever really see sa bite? Because we saw something a few times but it could have been rubber and there was weird shaving around the junk itself but still leaving a bush. And always exactly the same size. I was paying attention, I admit.

R22: not wide enough flaccid to be considered huge or gigantic

At only 37 years old he had won 2 Césars. One for the best hope and one for the best actor. Brilliant French actor. He also played Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising.

R20, R1 is quoting a Hannibal Lecter line, in observance of the DL tradition specifying that the first response in a thread shall be: 1) brutally heartless; and, if possible, 2) witty.

I thought he nailed it but I have never heard of this French actor and am not prostrated with grief.

Seems like he was about to have his big breakthrough exposure (in the US anyway) in Marvel’s Moon Knight with Oscar Isaac. Sad.

Omg no

[quote]I have never heard of this French actor and am not prostrated with grief.

I have never heard of this French actor and am prostrated with grief.

Wow, I literally looked him up a few weeks ago because of this ad I came across. So sad. He has a young kid too.

This scene in Just the End Of the World (Xavier Dolan) is heartbreaking. He does not know how to announce that he is very sick and that he is going to die. Marion Cotillard will understand it without any dialogue. Cesar well deserved.

Eva is a twisted little movie with Huppert.

Was he ever on Call My Agent?

Sad.

Est morte.

^Mort

He made a lot of B movies - a working actor. And some good ones! He had an unusual face because it was boyish yet also craggy before its time. In close ups in movies he looked masculine but expressed a lot of tenderness.

Good description, R39. He was a really handsome man, imo.

And just like that…. Gone.. Quel dommage 🥲

We all had an expiation date.

Live your best life..

^have

So young, too young

Tossing R41 an 'r'.

^R44 Thanks I need glasses 🤓

This is jaw dropping. I was wondering only a couple of days ago who the next death will be.

Completely unexpected. And he was only 37; this isn't Betty White we're taking about.

He was very good in A Very Long Engagement, one of the best french movie iever made

^ever

Ugh I always loved him but he was not a huge star in the US so I am mourning alone. So good as Yves St Laurent.

I hate when a fantastic cock disappears from this planet before it should.

Being a big star in the US is not the world reference anymore. It is for this kind of attitude that the rest of the world is turning away from your movies. The world have to celebrate your movies and actors and you americans, you only look at your navels. With all the streaming platforms there are no more excuses.

Besides, the French invented the cinema and did not wait after Americans.

Damn. And yet Trump breathes for another day.

Saint Laurent is such a great film, this is very sad

So many people die from skiing accidents.

I have never gotten the allure.

I assume he wasn’t filming at the time; don’t most contracts stipulate that actors abstain from potentially dangerous activities until filming is completed?

We continue to live in interesting times.

Skiing is thrilling physically and also to be outside in a beautiful environment. That's why. There are ways to reduce risk but it's always filled with danger. People get mangled and sliced often. Or die.

He's in the Marvel "Moon Knight" series that's still in production so he was poised to become a US star.

But plenty of us in the US knew who he was, so you're not mourning alone. I was shocked to hear the news, it was completely unexpected. He's a very good actor and way, way too young.

Damn, sooo sad. Loved him as Yves Saint Laurent and will rewatch it tonight in his honor.

The mother of her son is stunning. Their son is only 6 years old

That's old enough to remember him.

Sigourney va etre devastee.

*The mother of HIS son

OMG RIP

The last post of his baby mama. Tragic. So tragic.

Nothing good can come from skiing. NOTHING

I have no interest in skiing. I do have an interest in hot chocolate and fondue.

The caption of Gaspard's fiancée's Instagram post at R64 is "And just like that... Boom! It's about their son skiing...

r35, not in person, but he was an offscreen character in the Sigourney Weaver episode.

Gaspard Ulliel is the NEW Natasha Richardson!

I'd rather have gone like Elsie.

R32: here he’s talking about making some of those Bleu ads

They tried to make him big abroad with Hannibal Rising but that never really happened. I think his face was simply too feminine and French-looking for 'murican taste.

Too smouldering, R72?

He and Natasha Richardson are up there holding their heads and saying “Wow, I could have had a V8!” and falling into each other’s arms in laughter.

Fortunately, good taste is not necessarily American... Your lost. In Latin countries he is famous, in Asian countries too. The world does not revolve around America which is only 500 years old...

Talent is not synonymous with American cinema. Neither are standards beauty. R72 He won 2 Cesars in his country. At only 37 yo is more than most American actors dare to hope for.

Why would an American actor want a Cesar, R76?

...Stupidity on the other hand is very American.

If he had a too French face, why did Hollywood go for him to shoot in a Marvel?

Died with Covid obviously....

From the first movies (he was pretty) to the recent ones (he was aging so very well, so handsome and charismatic) he was an exceptional presence in film. And beyond the beauty and the presence (I think he was on the level of Alain Delon), he was a good actor, an intelligence and energy coming from inside to the screen. There are beautiful actors (the young Keanu Reeves I am thinking of) who have nothing to show inside.

I first noticed him in Les Egares... 2003.

He wasn't super photogenic. He wouldn't have been a model if he wasn't a well known actor.

He had a smelling cookies look about him.

R76, let's be honest: He would've traded those awards for a successful Hollywood career. Most foreign actors would in a heartbeat.

R82 You live in a different universe from me.

Not really, r85. I expect you're misinterpreting my comment.

The Marvel curse is alive and well. First Chadwick, now Gaspard. Who is next? Hopefully Chris Hemsworth in a tragic surfing incident involving a school of box jellyfish.

[Quote] The Marvel curse is alive and well. First Chadwick, now Gaspard. Who is next?

Not before I get that ring!

DL's idiot beauty criterias make me laugh. He was a model before he was an actor and he was spotted that way. He had an atypical face. And the fashion world loves a different face. I think Chanel don't need any of some pos advices on here. Choosing his worst photos to say he was ugly is petty. Gaspard was very photogenic. Especially in his movies.

He wasn't a child actor?

R81 When did those amazing pulpy blow job lips of 20 deflate?

He acted sporadically in films as a child, then there was a long break. During this break he was a model.

[Quote] Choosing his worst photos to say he was ugly is petty.

I never said he was ugly. I suspect you're ESL.

Someone condole Xavier Dolan.

“It is implausible, insane, and so painful to even think of writing these words. Your discreet laughter, your watchful eye. Your scar. Your talent. Your listening. Your whispers, your kindness. All the features of your person were in fact born of a sparkling sweetness. It is your whole being that has transformed my life, a being that I loved deeply, and that I will always love. I can’t say anything else, I’m exhausted, stunned by your departure.”

How successful was he as a teen model, hon?

R93 And who is ESL??

R93 You said he was "not photogenic" and could not be a model. Your belief, your right. But I think there are most here who think that's nuts.

I knew Xavier Dolan would be inconsolable. They were closed friends.

R93 - ESL = English as a Second Language (i.e. non-native speaker).

[Quote] You said he was "not photogenic"

No. What Is wrote is below:

[Quote] He wasn't super photogenic.

*What Is wrote

*What I wrote

Ok, thank you R99

R93 Yeah suren that it's SO strange that there are non-English native speakers in a thread about a French actor. Sure it's very strange.

With a face like Gaspard's, some angles and lenses are better than others.

^^sure

I hope Whorevier Dolan got to suck that beautiful dick!

[Quote] With a face like Gaspard's, some angles and lenses are better than others.

Agreed, which is why I said that he wasn't super photogenic. Some are in their feelings. I condole them.

[Quote] Whorevier Dolan

Xavier Ho-lan was right there.

His second Cesar is for the movie he shot under Xavier Dolan direction

Gaspard and Xavier. So cute

Mon Dieu, Gaspard and Andre on the same day. The world has lost a beautiful vision, and a man who created them.

Andre? R111

Andre Leon Talley.

R113 Oh that old girl, yeah i saw that

yes there is a stunning connection between Andre Leon Talley and Gaspard Ulliel.

Gaspard and Louis Garrel in Saint Laurent.

One of the sexiest gay kiss ever R116

He had a hot ass but he couldn't live forever

R107 are you blind? Seriously, what is wrong with you?

Le shriek qu'on a écouté autour du monde!!!

His face wasn't his best quality. But he had other major contributions he gave to cinema.

[Quote] His face wasn't his best quality.

Literal Violence!

R113

I thought at first Andre Techine (the gay filmmaker who directed Ulliel's first big feature film) had died as well when I saw your post.

The most beautiful thing about Gaspard was his immense talent. He never stopped improving. He was to become one of the greatest French actors for many Cinema specialists. He was extremely humble. Very discreet. Too discreet and he hated talking about his private life, like most of French actors.

This one shocked me--he was so young and such a star (at least outside the US--I came here thinking I'd make my first ever post).

The article I read said a 5-year-old girl died a few days earlier in the same region after being crashed into. Glad my loved ones aren't skiers.

[quote]yes there is a stunning connection between Andre Leon Talley and Gaspard Ulliel.

Not even remotely comparable R115.

Andre was at least 5, maybe 6 times the man Gaspard was.

Just the one (ton), dear?

This is just so sad.

I think I first saw him in Summer Things / Embrassez qui vous voudrez where he's seduced by Charlotte Rampling. I think he gets it on with Melanie Laurent too.

A really lovely film and worth watching if you want something light to enjoy.

A beautiful man and a talented actor.

Gaspard in 'It's Only The End of the World'. You can see how deep he was in his role.

R10 Why is skiing in the Alps particularly dangerous? Is it just because of crowding and the fact that it can get quite foggy?

I grew up near the Rockies and skiing has always terrified me. My elementary school used to take us on field trips to a local ski hill (obviously, not the mountains) and that was ENOUGH for me!!!

Well, reportedly the other person involved in the collision is fine. If you hit your head in the wrong spot... It's light out.

When I've lost a dear friend, I have been stunned. But not exhausted at the SAME time! How does Xavier Dolan get off the floor?!

Merde.

Wasn't exhausted the word the translator chose?

R132 If Xavier Dolan is stunned AND exhausted, just imagine how Ulliel's wife and young son feel...

R131

I wonder how that person must be feeling now 😬

Skiing is dangerous many places I only know the particular dangers in the alps:

1) Above treelike skiing - much of it - means you get white outs - difficult to see where is where 2) coming with above treeline resorts, there are also very wide slopes and I have noticed that moderate skiers are not as precisely in control of tight and quick turns. advanced skiers, sure. Moderate skiers just think they can lazily but quickly carve down the mountain. 3) immense resorts. yahoo skiers who can't control their speed and direction are not as easily policed.

There are MANY collisions

4) another different danger is that many European skiers go off slopes. its the thing many teen boys and macho guys do. women get in on it two of course. so thats avalanes and fatal falls into crevices and off cliffs

Die young. Stay pretty.

(RIP)

Jesus, God in heaven, why’d you have to kill such hot mansnatch?

Is his Yves Saint Laurent biopic the good one, or is the other one with Pierre Niney better? Are they both worth checking out?

His one is the good one, the Niney one's a slog

R141 can confirm

His is the best YSL biopic. it's a visually stunning film.

Okay, I'm relieved that his is the one to watch! Will watch it tonight!

[quote]He and Natasha Richardson are up there holding their heads and saying “Wow, I could have had a V8!” and falling into each other’s arms in laughter.

Then Sonny Bono walks up and asks, "What's so funny?"

RIP!

The other person lived!!! not injured.

I recognize him from the Chanel ads.

He was so beautiful!

Hey, Gaspard!

Go long!

OMG what’s the pill that they’re passing back and forth in r116? Someone pls tell me!

The kiss is sexy af, made more so by the decadence

Was her wearing a helmet?

I guess he didn’t die pretty if it was a head impact. What a shame. I would have loved to see him become a huge star in the US. He looked stunning as YSL.

he had a nice ass but he couldn't live forever

R152 at least 10 other dolts have typed your witticism 🤮 on 5 other threads.

Carry on.

r149 from what I recall they are taking tranqs? It's the 70s after all

Paix à son âme. 🌸🌺🌼

Even Manu is devasted.

"Emmanuel Macron expresses his sadness at the brutal disappearance of Gaspard Ulliel"

Poor translation.

R157 Ok, do it then, can you translate for us what Manu says?

R157 See? you can't

It is a poor translation. He hasn't disappeared. He's dead, Dead, DEAD.

Disparition = disappearance

Mort = dead

If he had been picked up by Hollywood earlier he could have easily been marketed as the French Brad Pitt.

Surprisingly, the Prosecutor has just made it known in a press release that the fact that Gaspard Ulliel had a helmet or not would have changed nothing.

Jeez..

[Quote] Disparition = disappearance / Mort = dead

You can't always translate literally, hon.

[Quote] the Prosecutor has just made it known in a press release that the fact that Gaspard Ulliel had a helmet or not would have changed nothing.

Tell us he had no helmet on without telling us.

r157 there's this thing called figurative speech. Look it up, connard.

[Quote] If he had been picked up by Hollywood earlier he could have easily been marketed as the French Brad Pitt.

Nah. AntiFrench sentiment would preclude it. Remember "Freedom Fries"?

Brutal = brutal soudain = sudden

That scar on his cheek gave him a different face. Strange but he was still handsome, not gorgeous but handsome man

[Quote] there's this thing called figurative speech. Look it up, connard.

Brutal disappearance to relate to a death from an accident doesn't work in English.

"sudden bereavement"?

"Tragic Loss" would cover it.

r170 you don't speak French, do you? This makes sense, en fr.

Delicious wife to relate to a prime minster’s spouse doesn’t work in English either.

Why is it that talented artists die young all the time?

R158 that’s monsieur president!

Not all the time.

the talentless would piss us off non stop for years

R117 B. White = Barry White? If so i couldn't agree more with you. I miss him.

R172. Not a native speaker, but I don’t think brutal means tragic nor does disparition have the euphemistic tone of loss. I think unexpected or sudden death is correct.

Sudden (death) doesn't connote brutal.

[Quote] I don’t think brutal means tragic

He appears to have died from something like blunt force trauma. Tragic alludes to the accident without going into territory that is too descriptive or upsetting. Horrific Loss would suffice, too.

Wouldn’t we just say “heartbreaking loss”

r180 and this is what irony is.

But brutal has the sense of sudden or unexpected in French.

It means sudden death.

heartbreaking loss = la mort déchirante

[Quote] But brutal has the sense of sudden or unexpected in French.

We're talking about translating French into English. Do keep up.

What are you talking about?

It sounds like the other skier was skiing very fast and slammed into him. Hence the massive blunt force trauma and the other skier being uninjured.

No helmut. Extremely reckless, for that.

No Angela either?

Or helmet, for that matter..

No helmut no cry

First time I noticed Gaspard was in that essay film directed by Gus Van Sant, Paris, je t'aime, years ago. A little gem.

Devastating

OP, you asshole.

If EVER a death deserved the "BREAKING NEWS" subject line, Mons. Gaspard "Crash" Ulliel did.

Shameful.

Only on DL would this devolve into an argument over semantics.

I've followed Ulliel's career since 2003. He was my favorite actor of his generation. Both he and Gerard Philipe died right around their 37th birthdays and leave a similar sad legacy.

"Crash" might be a bit insensitive as part of a title, considering how he went out.

Marion Cotillard is devasted, her insta post is so sad

Gérard Depardieu's son (Guillaume Depardieu), died at the same age. He was also predicted to be the future of French cinema. He was extremely talented but very tortured because of his relationship with his dad. Gone too soon.

Guillaume was a dissipated, spoiled, addict. I've never heard any dirt on Ulliel.

Gaspard didn't have a super star father. Guillaume did.

He was hot

marioncotillard

Verified

Gaspard,

Tant de lumière et tant d’amour émanaient de toi. Comme j’ai aimé te connaître. Et j’ai tant vibré à tes côtés. Tu étais et tu resteras, par ce que tu nous laisses qui est si immense et si profond, une merveille d’homme. C’est une douleur si grande que de te savoir parti. Je pense à tous ceux que tu aimais et qui t’aimerons toujours.

Voyage en paix.

^^^"So much light and so much love emanated from you. How I loved knowing you. And I vibrated so much by your side. You were and you will remain, by what you leave us which is so immense and so deep, a wonder of a man. It's such a great pain to know you're gone. I'm thinking of all those you loved and who will always love you."

Such a pain! I’m exhausted by. your brutal disappearance

At what ski resort was he killed? There are so many assholes on the pistes.

"What a bread! I am exhumed by your botched protuberance."

[Quote] And I vibrated so much by your side

Does she use eggs?

R180 - you're sure throwin' out some big words for a furriner, pardner.

Young Gaspard played opposite the gorgeous Elias McConnell, Van Zant discovery, in Paris je t'aims. He did Elephant and a couple projects then disappeared.

a photo from set

Elias McConnell was so hot in Elephant. I wonder how much loads he blew into Van Zant’s mouth?

[quote]At what ski resort was he killed?

La Rosière near Albertville

Van Zant was all over him. The photos now date badly.

Heaven needed another well hung angel.

He was so fucking good in Saint Laurent, one of the most underrated movies of the last decade. Why do people ski?

Skiing is the only sport I ever loved. It's beautiful and fun. Personally, I find diving much scarier, but I guess every sport has its potential for horrible accidents.

He was a phenomenal talent. I saw It’s only the end of the world without knowing knowing much about it, just that it had terrific actors in it. Gaspard Ulliel gave the most subtle, luminous performance, it was incredible and he was the focal point even with people like Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel around him. What a loss.

I had seen him in several films, he was an excellent actor. This is shocking news. This is similarly tragic as when my neighbor across the street who died in a skiing accident in Aspen a few years ago, he also collided with another skier. I believe he was mid thirties as well.

Natasha Richardson says hi.

Um, I don't think this thread is about Elias R212 and R214.

R217 Guess there's an insatiable bottom in Heaven...

Another str8, who cares.

R225, 90% of the threads here are about straights whom we then gossip or share news about.

Are you new here?

He probably wasn't straight anyway.

He really was one of the more exciting french stars in recent times.

I had no idea he had been cast with Oscar Isaac in a marvel series until after his death. As much as I am not keen on superhero things, this cast with Ethan, Oscar and Gaspard does sound intriguing as they are all actors who I admire and depending on the reviews I would probably watch it.

Japanese kept pictures of him when he was younger. He was so cute

In that pic he looks like Charlotte Gainsbourg.

There are several French cinema pretty faces who can't act much but appear in film after film. Ulliel was aging out of the group. Others include Francois Civil, Louis Garrel, Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Niels Schneider, Pierre Rochefort, Pierre Niney.

Well aren’t you a buzzkill R231.

Ulliel apparently is a name of French origin but only a very few families have it.

R231, Niels Schneider posted a tribute to Gaspard on his IG:

[quote]Japanese kept pictures of him when he was younger.

I knew it!!!

[quote]Besides, the French invented the cinema and did not wait after Americans.

R51 The French may have invented cinema, but Americans created the concept of the movie star. As my British grandmother once said, "America doesn't have a monarchy, so they created the film star."

i.e., Hollywood royalty

So he participated in the homosex in movies?

Le cinema?

R236 So America always invents what is superficial?

No, seriously, cinema is filmed comedy and in the field of comedy, Sarah Bernhardt was the first world star. Otherwise, I wouldn't bet on an American for the very first movie star because the very first movie shown in a cinema was in Lyon, France. The very first movie star in America was not a worldwide star.

Besides, America invented the film industry = Hollywood. Because with you all everything must always be industrialized. But you all never invented ART.

I didn't know Jewish people ski.

Another anti-Semitic asshole. He wasn't Jewish, but the fantasies of the little virtual Hitlers never end.

[quote] I didn't know Jewish people ski.

His mother was Jewish, I believe, but he wasn't raised as such.

His mom is not Jewish, you psycho

Shocking. When I saw the headline I thought he must have been skiing off piste as I used to do just to avoid the crowds. Until I went off a cliff into a boulder - and to Court. The Swiss are serious

I still don't understand how he could die from a collision. We see them all the time. His head must have hit the ground in some freakish way. Such a pity. He was an excellent actor. Sublime in YSL and many other films noted above

I wondered if he suffered an “internal decapitation”? In any case, what a sad loss for cinema, just devastating.

[quote]His mother was Jewish, I believe, but he wasn't raised as such.

You're confusing him with Louis Garrel, R242.

Yes maybe his neck snapped.

He was extremely talented. Extremely attractive and the whole world doesn't revolve around America nor did America invent the film industry. By the way, a good percentage of "American" films had their post production done in the UK at Pinewood studios.

Cinema was pioneered in two directions. The Americans innovated to produce narrative and the montage necessary - Edison and the principally DW Griffith. The French innovated in the direction of art cinema - the visual and poetic possibilities of the moving image - principally Méliès and then Gance, etc. These innovations didn't happen in isolation so French and German cinemas took on what it wanted from narrative montage and American cinema took what it wanted from fantastic illusions.

Still up to the early talkies, in general the Germans and the French explored the fantastic imagery, the psychological insights and subconscious impacts, while Americans pursued exciting, riveting narratives of meant to create suspense and thrills. Notable achievements on both sides of the ocean explored the tradition from the OTHER side. Fritz Lang showed he could bring the narrative thrills. The American showed they could bring the illusionistic thrills in increasingly elaborate production design and also small little films of poetry often made by European trained talent.

If you want more please sign for my Freshman Seminar - History of Early cinema - next semester. Secret: it's a gut course.

R251 May I audit the course?

I'll ask my university if I can stream it for free on one of those sites. My university is way behind on this, so they's love it.

Theys my favorites.

Michael Schumacher, the racing legrnd, hasn't been seen since his skiing accident in the Alps 8 years ago. He had a serious head injury. His family said he's doing better, but come on, he's seriously impaired.

If his wife is saying "we miss him" then clearly he's in a semi vegetative state.

Maybe Ulliel's temple was hit/penetrated by the end of the other fella's skis.

[quote]I wondered if he suffered an “internal decapitation”? In any case, what a sad loss for cinema, just devastating.

Like nails across a blackboard, R245.

R251 Please do.

Was Michael Schumacher 8 years ago? sheesh time flies. Michael Schumacher was skiing off slope. Tumbled into a rock. Ulliel - collision. So - two examples of what I wrote at R137. Michael Schumacher should NEVER have been off slope. Married and with kids? Reckless. Ulliel - no helmet! Its not that people deserve accidents but why so reckless especially when everyone knows a thrilling pursuit has dangers.

I was on piste and wearing a helmet and still almost went over the edge of a Swiss Alp (not exaggerating). I made it down and never skied again.

R261 how did that happen? Were the conditions bad, did you have poor visibility?

R261 - which resort? I ski mostly Zermatt and Verbier and in Zermatt there are some slopes I feared and eventually stopped taking in my 50s as I lost my cool with the drop offs. They have them mostly netted but I have vertigo and it got worse as testosterone slowly declines with age.

I’ve skied all my life and can count the number of falls I’ve had on two hands just about (I’m in my 30s). None serious, one could possibly have been had the snow not been so plentiful that year (it was like falling onto a cushion) and had I not been wearing a helmet but who knows.

[quote]But plenty of us in the US knew who he was, so you're not mourning alone. I was shocked to hear the news, it was completely unexpected. He's a very good actor and way, way too young.

Because I'm around "that age" I can say that he was really "huge on Tumblr" back in the mid aughts. I'd never seen one of his films but I do remember his every move being posted over and over again on my Tumblr timeline. It was only later that I was adult enough to watch and enjoy his projects. What an amazing talent. So sad.

I guess it’s like everything else bad that happens. We never imagine it will happen to us. My biggest fear on the slopes is not the pistes it’s the other skiers.

R261 Oh my god. Nearly fell off a CLIFF? Damn.

I knew I was right to be suspicious of skiing as a child on my field trips.

R130 as r263 said the drops are mostly netted off. It’s not so easy to fall off, unless you are ignoring signs and common sense. Out of thousands who ski you’d hear about this more frequently if it was common.

Diablerets and the weather was perfect. I just suddenly turned on a pretty thin path and forced myself to fall before going over the edge. I didn't look down but I saw no fencing or anything and I was quite near the top. It felt like it would have been really bad news but maybe there was netting I couldn't see. I'm not going to ski again though.

Oh a transverse corridor type? Yes they often have drops and its difficult to carve and if you don't carve you pick up speed. Also the shitty skiers will snow plow.

Non skier here, but how do you collide with another skier and die, but the other skier walks away with no injuries?

Because one of you falls and hits your head on something. The other, who is wearing a helmet, falls and doesn't sustain a serious/fatal head injury.

have they even said it was a head injury?

In Zermatt a collision resulted in femoral artery bleed out quickly to death. I saw the blood soaked snow.

[quote] Local broadcaster France Bleu reported that Ulliel collided with another skier at a crossing point, suffering head trauma. R273

ok thanks

The speed at which he was travelling must have been quite fast giving him no time to react or to slow down. That or the other skier appeared out of nowhere and he literally didn’t know what hit him.

I’m still trying to figure out how these two didn’t see each other before colliding. And if that’s the case then it had to be some trees or something obscuring each other’s view.

I just hate knowing that this possibly could have been avoided somehow.

And helmets whether they work or not should be mandatory from now on.

What if something sinister happened and that skier did this on purpose. I mean he literally walked away from this without a scratch on him.

[quote] I’m still trying to figure out how these two didn’t see each other before colliding.

Exactly and how close were they skiing.

Or what if it was an accident and GU should have been wearing a helmet r278 and 2279?

Depending on what course he was on which they say was intermediate you would think it would be wide open right? At least that’s what I thought.

Any other slopes with terrain in them would be for the experts.

Or maybe that’s only in the US.. I’m thinking of Stowe Vermont where I’ve skied with that set up from what I remember. It’s been a few years since I’ve skied.

The French Alps is totally different set up I’m sure.

The accident happened where two pistes merge. No info yet about who may have been at fault

Nearby on Saturday a 5 year old died taking a lesson was killed by a speeding 40 year old guy who lost control and plowed into her. He's been arrested for manslaughter and faces 5 years in prison.

La Rosière is mostly above treeline but there are trees towards the bottom 1/3. I hear its a family place not super difficult. It starts high but doesn't have a long verticals.

OK in fact it appears entirely above treeline. The Italian side has trees at the bottom.

So he did possibly notice the other skier in his peripheral and vice versa and they both probably misjudged their position and smacked into each other before either could stop first.

And If that’s the case then an intermediate skier shouldn’t be on this slope/ piste IMO just due to the speed and not having the experience to slow down towards the bottom.

I tried to explain that the issue with the wide open slopes above treeline is that people assume they are easy and can carve quickly down them, perhaps above their technical level of control. Most of the time it works out fine for the one asshole. But it produces collisions.

He was skiing on an intermediate piste Terras or something like this.

Tétras perhaps.

I mean Gaspard died violently on an intermediate piste which must have been quite steep.. On an intermediate course.

Maybe that course would be considered expert in the US then.

Either way it was lack of experience on Gaspard’s part which unfortunately cost him his life IMO.

The downhill skier has the right of way but some idiots like to rocket down the mountain and to hell with anyone who gets in their way. I nearly swerved into the path of one such idiot at Heavenly and he had the nerve to scream at me.

R289 we don't have details. We don't know if they were both skiing and how fast. We don't know if it was faultless on one at fault or both? Do we?

[quote] it was lack of experience on Gaspard’s part which unfortunately cost him his life IMO.

Even ski instructors have had life changing accidents so it’s not got all that much to do with experience or lack thereof.

Same as driving. Lots of life-changing and life-ending accidents involving experienced and less experienced, reckless and cautious drivers.

France's James Dean.

R248 Before Hollywood the industrialization of films did not exist. It seems that you Americans know nothing about history.

R249 Bullshit. The self-taught French scientist, Louis Lumière - with the help of his brother Auguste - contributed to the progress of photography and invented, in 1895, the Cinematograph. In doing so, he did not only create a machine: he gave birth to one of the major arts of the 20th century, the cinema.

The first film about vampires for example is French. Also, the technique of cinema was brought by their inventors the Lumière Brothers. The suspense is a British and not an American. His name was Hitchcock. The very first film producers who dominated the market in Europe were the Pathé brothers and then Gaumont. The Americans will do everything to destroy them and, as usual, steal their know-how.

Gaspard Ulliel : "Jouer un rôle est parfois mettre du sel sur ses propres blessures"

Gaspard Ulliel: "Playing a role is sometimes putting salt on your own wounds"

"Some new details on the circumstances of the tragedy have been unveiled. According to the Albertville prosecutor, “Gaspard Ulliel collided with another skier as he had just turned left, presumably to join his friends” on another track, himself having had the accident at the intersection between two blue runs. Another witness interviewed by Release clarified that the intersection in question is in a sector “well frequented, but wide and secure, equipped with signs. (…) It’s unfortunate, but skiing remains a dangerous activity, this kind of accident can happen, you have to accept it… Proportionally to the number of skiers, it remains very rare nevertheless” he concluded.

"They tried to make him big abroad with Hannibal Rising but that never really happened. I think his face was simply too feminine and French-looking for 'murican taste."

Well just because Americans think they have masculine faces doesn't mean they are. Besides, what do you 'Muricans really know about masculinity? France invented chivalry. You hadn't even set foot on stolen land when they did. Gaspard knew where he came from. And what do you know about his filmography? Here (picture below) for example, he is very masculine. At least, for the rest of the world!

O the satisfaction of blocking...

...And the pleasure of being blocked from the dumbest bastards ever

[quote]...And the pleasure of being blocked from the dumbest bastards ever

I don't think he heard you r302, so I thought I'd pass on the message.

And I think he would have passed on if he couldn't hear me.

As you've already heard, comedy is a REAL talent. Idiot R303

As you’re travelling down the slope you gain speed and gravity is pulling you as well I was taught to start pizza blading your legs midway approaching the bottom. That helps to slow you down.

It also prevents you from possibly wiping out.

It appears Gaspard probably thought he could take it all the way down to the bottom without stopping and finish like an expert. Not knowing that someone else had the same idea and then BOOM…,,Gaspard wipes out in the worst possible way crashing into someone. So unbelievably sad for him.

That's messed up.

With zero info DLers construct the death scene.

Hardly zero info, hon.

I always mixed him up with Louis Garrel.

His eyes were otherworldly. Almost frighteningly striking at times, but beautiful, sublime. I loved his little role as a waifish mopheaded artist twink in Paris, Je t’Aime.

RIP. He's wonderful and beautiful in the Saint Laurent movie. Which has the camp bonus of Helmut Berger playing YSL late in life.

[quote]The first film about vampires for example is French.

Wasn't the first vampire film German? "Nosferatu" (1922) by F. W. Murnau?

Awful. He was great in A Very Long Engagement.

No way is that thing a boy. It looks 10 000% female.

Loretta Simpson went “oops” on the slopes at Zermatt and couldn’t join me and the gang down at the Côte d’Azur. In fact she died but it was no great loss.

"Gaspard Ulliel suffered such a severe blow to the head in fatal ski accident that he would likely still have died even if he had worn a helmet, investigators reveal" Well fuck!

What kind of thing is that to announce unless the explain it carefully! What hit his head or what did his head hit? If not the other skier, than what?

so that means he wasn't wearing a helmet? if that's the case, then stupid cunt deserved to die.

He has a new series about to come out...looks good.

R318 the lack of helmet was announced early. Keep up.

There were no rocks, so I wonder what he hit his head on. Once my ski came off in a fall, flipped up and hit me in the head. I was lucky I was not badly injured. Those were the days when I did not ski with a helmet too so I was doubly lucky on that occasion. For more than ten years I’ve been skiing with a helmet, I’m surprised when I see guys on the slopes without a helmet I assume they aren’t doing any major skiing.

Skiing conditions were good but the snow is hard (icy). That's why the avalanche warming is high. A violent slam to the ground can cause a bad head injury. I think this was the case with Natasha Richardson as well She just hit her head on the ground

Thanks r322 I just read more about it and saw that he hit his head on the ground at high speed.

R322 I think more likely Nat couldn't take Liam's huge monster cock anymore and her body chose to self-destruct. No doubt her guts were torn up from that huge dong.

R324 Arguing for putting homosexuality back into the DSM-5 as mental illness.

I thought Natasha fell on the ground in town?

I found this in a French article:

"D’après ces premiers témoignages et les constatations réalisées sur place, les deux skieurs évoluaient côte à côte et se sont rentrés dedans. Pour le moment, il est difficile de dire si c’est le choc ou la chute qui a entraîné la mort de M.Ulliel. ... «Au vu des premiers éléments, il n’a pas été relevé de vitesse excessive, de comportement inadapté ou de faute de l’un des deux skieurs», a-t-elle ajouté.

Rough Translation: According to witnesses and reports taken at the scene, the two skiers were skiing side by side and ran into each other. For the moment, it is difficult to say whether it was the collision or the fall that killed Ulliel. Judging from the evidence gathered thus far, the accident was not related to excessive speed, inappropriate conduct, or the fault of one of the two skiers.

Natasha fell to her death on skis from a standing position. She was not in Mont Tremblant village but on a hill.

Really wonder why people like R318 even bother getting up every morning. Absolute ghouls

It's obvious info provided by the Press is conflicting and limited because of French attitudes about privacy. I don't believe for instance that his collision was so violent that even a helmet couldn't have saved him.

Initially the report was that the two collided where 2 pistes merge. This seems most likely. I want to know if the other guy was snow boarding. Those buggers are always trouble on the slopes

well, maybe his helmet-less head knocked into that other guy's helmet and the impact caused brain damage.

I remember Natasha didn't appear to be injured but she had internal bleeding of the brain. The stupid cunt refused to go to the hospital and she died.

I'm sorry, you know the risks you take when you don't wear helmet. Like cyclists etc...you are an adult, not a child. So you only have yourself to blame if you die or get seriously injured.

I think skiing might be the most dangerous sport an average person can partake in. What other sport (for amateurs) is this dangerous?

Here's food for thought, R334.

R334 Any sport where one has to wear a helmet and/or protective padding.

Anyway, back to his cock. It was very big.

Was it on this thread, someone compared him to Gerard Philipe because they died around the same age and tragically. The interesting coincidence is that ulliel was born on the date only Philipe’s death but 25th of November but about three decades later. Maybe a numerologist would have fun with that fact.

Indeed, R337. He was hung like a horse. He could have had another career as a porn star:

Yes, R338, I posted that comparison at R198. The linked article goes into several other odd coincidences. The writer also mentions how Philipe's doctor and Philipe's lover kept him in the dark about his lethal disease. Maybe better to have gone out quickly as Ulliel did.

It's a tragedy he died before he showed his big full erection on film.

He's the type who would have done it.

Mary!!!

What's happening with this story? Updates?

He's still dead, Rose.

what update are you expecting?

We can rebuild him?

^^ quite impaired.

R343 His funeral is supposed to be on Thursday. I expect a lot of glamour from French film stars.

^^ incorrect

R349 If you say so.

Will Macron attend? He loves the big stories. Vive la France, vive la république!

Watching Hannibal Rising now. He was a very interesting looking young man.

Thanks for recommending his YSL biopic, it was quite good.

If the Daily Mail covers the funeral we should get some good celeb shots. Otherwise the French press is too mindful of privacy so zip.

R353 I also watched Saint Laurent based upon this thread (Ulliel was a favorite actor, but SL had gotten very mixed reviews and a biopic of the druggy 70s seemed a bit done to me... so I didn't see it when it first came out).

Quirky, fragmented film. No clear narrative thread, and at first Ulliel seems in expected typically "soft gay genius who is self-destructing" mode. But it really has a dark power... death is the mother of beauty and all that. And a great performance by GU.

^^ of course. The French have a romantic relationship with death.

Watch It's Only the End of the World. It's superb.

It's Only the End of the World Is AWFUL but he was good in it.

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R359 Viva la France! .............cough.............cough cough..............cough

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Some more pics.

Aw. The kid has Gaspard's old hair.

That's pretty harsh, R332. People with traumatic brain injuries aren't usually the best at evaluating their own condition. She thought we was fine, and the stupid cunts she was with just said OK instead of insisting she get checked out for a concussion which could have saved her life.

Doesn't Mama Ulliel have tiny feet.

Deneuve has that fishhook mouth thing.

I've never heard of Niels Schneider.

He was in a few Xavier Dolan movies and in a film called Sibyl with Ulliel a few years ago.

Thanks r369.

Deneuve looks pulled together consider her age and surviving a stroke. Niels Schneider still looks sexy as fuck though I guess I'm not supposed to notice at a funeral.

Gaspard et Niels à Cannes 2019

Did Gaspard tease Niels about his accent?

Niels was born in France and spent his boyhood there. He does not speak like a Quebecois

That's the lucky. The French can look down on French Canadians.

Niels spent his young manhood looking like this. I don't think anyone would look down of him.

Imagine those two have a toss.

R375 Who DON'T the French look down on?

Jerry Lewis?

R368, it's worth checking out some of Niels Schneider's films. He received the César award a few years ago for 'Diamont Noir'. He does a lot of nudity and has shown his perky ass and uncut cock several times.

He's at his peak beauty in the mini-series, "Odysseus" (2013). (R376 posted a photo from it above). He plays Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, and is one of the main characters. Here he is oiling his naked body:

R365 She got what she deserved.

Louis Garrel was devastated at the funeral.

Sick of me to notice but there were so many good looking Frenchmen at that service.

Romain Duris continues to be THE hottest French actor alive.

Such an unexpected death… someone so talented, as well.

[quote]Did Gaspard's girlfriend wear... jeans?

Yes. Why the pearl clutching?

R361 R386 Ex-girlfriend, actually. They had been separated for over two years but had agreed on spending some time together with their kid at that resort. It was only revealed after French magazine Paris Match came out on the day of his funeral, and after the French press spent over a week misleading the whole world by referring to her as Gaspard's "girlfriend", "partner", "wife", "widow" and even "love of his life" even though he never said that. Talk about embarrassment! The English-language press made the same mistake and they can't even get his son's age right! The ex got over 45k followers on Instagram after Gaspard's death just because people really believed she was his widow. She had only 3k followers before that.

Paris Match also revealed that Gaspard arrived at the hospital brain dead, something that nobody had mentioned before and hasn't mentioned since. There were quite a few articles about him undergoing brain surgery after the accident, and now we know that it didn't happen. They put the article online this morning.

Have any of his male partners come out from the shadows yet?

R388 Not yet, but the French rags are already pushing a new "last girlfriend" that nobody had heard of until his death just because she was his co-star in his last film. Despite not being his type (quite a downgrade from his baby mama and other ex-girlfriends, and he wasn't a fan of dating actresses either), older and a mother of two... but the rags are trying to fool people into believing that it was "love at first sight" and that they were already living together. The comments from the sheep on her IG are cringe-worthy! They're so stupid that they didn't even notice that she's following a fake page for her "boyfriend" which has pics of his ex-girlfriends in it. A clear sign that someone who was actually close to him would know that he was never on social media. Now that the guy is dead, he's gonna have a new "last girlfriend" and "mysterious girlfriend from decades ago" every month.

R372 Niels Schneider will replace Gaspard in the French miniseries he started shooting last December, "Tikkoun", about the 2008-2009 carbon tax fraud. Gaspard's character was inspired by Arnaud Mimran.

Xavier Dolan will pay tribute to Gaspard at the César Awards tonight. He was interviewed on a French TV show yesterday and said he dreams about Gaspard very often and still can't accept his death. He broke down when they put a huge photo of Gaspard on the screen.

Dolan: "I think of him all the time, actually... I think... It's hard to conceive it.. It takes a long time to accept this situation... to accept his departure... It's inconceivable... I often dream of him... I think of his family... his son... I think of his talent, his beauty... And I will talk about him tonight."

Host: "That's why you're here, actually. Beyond your César nomination..."

Dolan: "Yes... honestly. This nomination is a recognition that I really appreciate, obviously, but it's not the first reason I'm here. I really wanted to say some things about Gaspard... Not because I have the right to do it, but because I wish to do it. I knew him professionally and intimately, as well. I hope tonight I'll be able to control myself better than now. But... I really feel the need to say personally how much I loved him and why..."

Xavier Dolan's tribute to Gaspard at the César Awards was in the form of a letter addressed to Gaspard's mom. He got choked up and cried several times while reading it. Here's the translation (it's not that good and some parts are missing because nobody posted the full transcript, so I did the best I could with the bits that I could find. If someone here is fluent in French, I'd really appreciate a better translation!):

"Tonight I wanted to pay a tribute to my friend, to our friend, Gaspard. I have chosen to do so in the form of a letter, which is as follows:

Madame, I am addressing this letter to you without even knowing you, without knowing you well. Outside, behind my bedroom window in the woods where I have taken refuge, the snow twirls in the air. It is transfigured by the light of the sun and the wind persists in beating it into loose snow. Big conifers rise in front of me, covered with a very heavy white deposit. Winter is calm, all of a sudden, after a brutal start.

I knew that in coming here to seek out isolation I was going to start thinking and writing about Gaspard, I had already written for Gaspard before, I had written to Gaspard, but I had not written about Gaspard. And other than for an article, an interview or a prize, believe me that I had no intention to do so.

The day he died, I watched again, obviously looking for his company, several of his films, including 'A Very Long Engagement'. Mathilde's hope of finding Manech under this [Angelo] Badalamenti music (...) Opposed to my grief... She was going to find him. She... Perhaps I had intentionally decided that this film would confirm the things that we refuse to see, that I still refuse to this day, this evening. For example, to see, to believe.

But I didn’t come here to speak about the career of Gaspard Ulliel — I could recount the list of brilliant exploits and feats, of starry passages among the stars of the Riviera, of the industry. But what effect could these things have on the gaping wound of his departure?

I couldn't help but think he would have hated this kind of elegy. He would have perceived a lack of elegance in this glorification. And he was very elegant. Because his career speaks for itself. Through the articles that praise him and all the roles that survive him. His talent, we still have it. And no one can take that away from us. It's the privilege of being famous and an actor of his light to be able to count on art to fade us into eternity while other important bereavements for some remain unknown to all or become so quickly evanescent. It's a whole world that cried for Gaspard... it's a whole world that still mourns him.

Tonight I wanted to share two things with you. At 16 or 17, I had written my first screenplay. (...) In this film which was called "Les Ailes Roses", there was a central figure of a lost teenager who was looking for himself and felt very alone who hid his preferences from the world. At the end of the first act, an angel appeared to this young man and guided him towards the light... (...) I had written an email to give it to Gaspard. It never got to him, at least I don't think so. I had also written another role for him later on, and it didn't work out either. Another luminous figure, more angelic in benevolence who saves a character who is once again lost. Years later, I asked him to be Louis in the adaptation of "It's Only the End of the World" by Jean-Luc Lagarce. The fallen angel whose wings life had cut off, sacrificing himself to protect his family. During our first reading, the conflicting schedules of everyone lead to an impasse that he had to sort out by telling me this, "do it without me, Xavier. In the reading, after all, I'm the one who does not speak, I'm the who listens. I will have the opportunity to catch up". And he did." (CONTINUES)

R393 (CONT) "Gaspard was often the one who listens and does not speak. We have often talked about his discretion or his gentleness, of the mystery that he did not intentionally cultivate. But little has been said about his eloquence. I've heard him talk so much about his love for his profession. About life, the beautiful things, in a neat language that celebrates the musicality, the scarcity of words while many were making a point to speak first, Gaspard was distilling from a thought, a more accomplished, more chiseled look. A bit like the one he poses at the end of 'Saint Laurent' by his friend Bertrand Bonello, in this moment when he's eyeing the camera and lays his eyes precisely on the situation that is life and on our souls as well. He seems to have understood something that has possibly escaped us all.

I chose to address this letter to you, Madame, because I did not know other than by telling you how much I admired and loved him. I didn't know how to pay him a real tribute. I think he would have liked to know that I wrote this letter while listening to a piece by Olafur Arnalds entitled "Tree"... "L'arbre". He would have listened to it. Even better. We would have listened to it together, without excluding all those who loved him. His family, it seemed natural to me to write to you this evening. To you, whom I immediately thought of that morning. Because a mother's love is stronger than anything. I believe it. Stronger than life. Stronger than art itself. And certainly stronger than death."

I just discovered this actor, he is marvelous and has played gay several times, I will read the thread soon but I just wanted to bump it up to make it easier to find again

I cannot get his death out of my mind. I know the lack of a helmet surely played a role, but, ultimately, it was such a horrid moment of bad luck. If he had taken the chairlift just before or just after, or if he had skiied down just the slightest bit faster or slower ... it would have given him enough time to avoid the collision. All he needed was a second of time. Think of all the time in the world and all he needed was one second of it.

This is a video of the site where he died. It's not like I imagined when I read the description of joining pistes; there seems to be so much space and visibility. My French isn't good enough to catch all the details, but he somehow crashed into that cloth sign. I just don't understand how it could happen and cause such severe head trauma. Are there detailed reports in French of what exactly happened? I don't see how that prosecutor could say that neither of them was being fast and reckless and that he would have died with a helmet anyway. The man who had collided with the girl who died a few days before Gaspard's accident was charged with manslaughter, so it's not as if they just 'let people off'.

There was no autopsy, which in many cases I would understand, because it gives the family additional trauma. But how can you not want a definitive answer? There were apparently early articles with sources claiming cardiac arrest. Maybe the family were shown security camera footage or something, and decided they'd seen enough. Maybe it was just a specifically awful way that he fell.

I'm devastated by the sudden finality. Driven sick. He is now just ashes in Père Lachaise. How can it be.

I'm sorry I didn't discover him until after he was gone. I'm catching up on his movies now.

His performance in Saint Laurent is bold and fearless. Amazing work.

[quote]There were apparently early articles with sources claiming cardiac arrest.

There was just one article from an unreliable source claiming that an actor said that Gaspard had suffered a cardiac arrest, and it was quickly taken down. There were some serious reading comprehension issues from people who don't understand that cardiac arrest = death. If your heart stops, you're dead, and cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack. He died of a brain trauma and arrived at the hospital with brain death. But some nutjob anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists were sure that he had died of a heart attack after getting the Covid vaccine.

[quote]There was no autopsy, which in many cases I would understand, because it gives the family additional trauma. But how can you not want a definitive answer?

There's no doubt about how he died. There were eyewitnesses there (including his friends and family) and likely cameras, so no mystery to be solved. And it's quite common for families in France to refuse autopsy.

This is just my personal opinion based on observations that I made while reading and watching his interviews: Gaspard was likely depressed and was possibly taking anti-depressants. Back in 2016 he said he developed insomnia while filming "It's Only the End of the World", he also made vague mentions about depression in a few interviews, so I guess his family didn't want this info out there for people to mock him and call him an addict.

The one thing that I find weird is why he was skiing on a blue slope? He was an experienced skier, so it doesn't make sense unless he was skiing with his 6-year-old son, but there's no confirmation if his son was with him at that moment or if he witnessed the accident, just that "Gaspard turned left possibly to join his friends on an adjoining slope when he collided with another skier". I really hope his son didn't see the accident though. That's the kind of thing that can mess up with a kid's head and last a lifetime.

The only thing Xavier Dolan misses about Gaspard is Gaspard's big fat cock, which he showed off with total abandon.

I agree that Romain Duris is the hottest French actor alive.

His baby mama made a post on Instagram yesterday confirming that Gaspard was single when he died. She also threw a subtle shade at his co-star from his last film who rather stay silent than deny the rumors that were portraying her as Gaspard's widow after his death, even though she had several opportunities to deny it when she was giving many interviews after his death and looking happier than ever. However, his ex still showed more respect for her than she deserved.

It's sad that his ex is the one who had to go public to deny this instead of the woman who let the rumors keep going just to boost her career in France (nobody in France had heard of her before this rumor was planted). It was obvious that she wasn't close to him since she started following a fake Gaspard page on IG that she still follows to this day. Gaspard was very discreet, he would have hated to see his name on tabloids all the time like it's happening now. He wasn't a tabloid fixture when he was alive. It's also hilarious to see all the gossip sites who created and spread this rumor every week (Public, Voici, Closer, etc), playing dumb now while reporting Gaelle's post as if they didn't know who started this mess.