He was found dead, age 43, in his suite at the Plaza Athénée,[1][2] the cause of death being barbiturate overdose, in 1985.
[1] With his brother-in-law, Claude Berri, they played a role in the production of Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball (1967) and bought international rights.
[3] Born in Beirut, to Thomas Joseph Rassam, a diplomat from a bourgeois family of Syrian Christian origin.
[4][5][6] He was in a relationship with actress Carole Bouquet, with whom he has one son, film producer Dimitri Rassam.
[1] His brother Paul was an executive for French distributor AMLF who distributed films for Berri in the early 1970s.