13 Facts About Daniel Filipacchi

Daniel Filipacchi was born on 12 January 1928 and is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Medias and a French collector of surrealist art.

Daniel Filipacchi later claimed never to have enjoyed taking photographs, despite earning early notoriety as a "well-mannered paparazzo".

Daniel Filipacchi played American and French rock music on this radio show beginning in the early 1960s.

Cahiers was in serious financial trouble and its owners appealed to Daniel Filipacchi to buy a majority share in order to save it from ruin.

Daniel Filipacchi hired a number of new people and redesigned the journal to look more modern, zippy, and youth-appealing.

Daniel Filipacchi lost interest in the magazine and sold his share in 1969.

Daniel Filipacchi owned specialty magazines, for instance, some were for teenage girls and others for men, which Filipacchi had founded in 1963 with Jacques Lanzmann.

Daniel Filipacchi acquired Newlook and French editions of American magazines Playboy and Penthouse.

Daniel Filipacchi hired Jann Wenner to run it in May 1979 but the revival was a failure, and Filipacchi fired the entire staff in July 1979.

Art from Daniel Filipacchi's collection formed part of the 1996 exhibit Private Passions at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Daniel Filipacchi's collection was exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York in 1999 in Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections - an event described by The New York Times as a "powerful exhibition", large enough to "pack the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum from ceiling to lobby".

Daniel Filipacchi's father, Henri Filipacchi, who was born in Izmir, Turkey, descended from shipowners from Venice, hence the Italian family name.

Daniel Filipacchi then had two children with fashion model Sondra Peterson: Craig and novelist Amanda Filipacchi.