[1] Stéphane Courbit graduated from the ISG Business School of Paris and the University Institutes of Technology of Valence.
Christophe Dechavanne hired him as an intern at its production company Coyote where Stéphane Courbit became the producer of shows such as Combien ça coûte ?, Coucou c'est nous !
At the end of 2007, Stéphane Courbit left Endemol[3] to create his own holding company, LOV Group, focused on activities related to the entertainment and IT industries.
In January 2008, alongside Groupe Arnault, the Agnelli and De Agostini families and AMS Industries, Stéphane Courbit created Banijay Entertainment, a holding company regrouping a dozen of production companies: Air Productions (Nagui), Banijay Productions (formerly ALJ of Alexia Laroche-Joubert), H2O Productions (Cyril Hanouna) in France; Cuarzo in Spain; Brainpool in Germany; Nordisk in Norway; Bunim/Murray in the United States; Screentime in Australia.In 2007, Courbit invested in Euro Media Group, the European leader in providing audiovisual services that owns the television studios of La Plaine St Denis through Studios de France.
[6] Stéphane Courbit has been a shareholder alongside Jacques Veyrat in Direct Energie, an alternative provider of electricity in France.
On 28 May 2015, the Bordeaux criminal court issued a €250,000 fine to Courbit for wrongfully obtaining €144 million in investment funds from aging L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, citing the use of false information and omissions, and in general, misuse of her diminishing mental ability.