Édouard Stern (18 October 1954 – 28 February 2005) was a French banker who was infamously murdered in Geneva, Switzerland, by a woman he had a four-year relationship with.
[3] His father, Antoine Jean Stern, is a descendant of a notable family of bankers, going back to 19th-century Frankfurt, and his mother was Christiane Laroche, former wife of French journalist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.
Keen to follow in his father's footsteps, Stern graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC Business School) in Paris with a degree in finance before joining the family's private investment house in 1977.
[14] In 2000, Stern bought shares in the London-based Delta PLC, an international engineering group that was revising its corporate strategy.
[7] His banking style was considered revolutionary for France's so-called "cozy capitalism", as Stern honed his skill at engineering hostile takeovers.
Society columnist Taki Theodoracopulos has reported in The Spectator that Stern, in addition to having many girlfriends, was bisexual and had a boyfriend, and that he was a "rough trade" sex connoisseur.
[21] In 2013, Cécile Brossard talked about the murder for the first time since the trial, confessing that she "eternally regrets" her actions and she misses her lover, who had "a lovely and luminous personality".
[22][23] The French film "Une Histoire d'Amour''[24] (titled in English 'Tied') is a direct telling of the story, although the ending there could imply death by dehydration during the mistress' long plane flight rather than by (a blank) gunshot.
[25] The death of Édouard Stern was directly parodied on the FX animated series Archer in the third season episode "Lo Scandalo".