Omar Harfouch

Omar Harfouch (Arabic: عمر حرفوش; born 20 April 1969 in Tripoli in Lebanon)[1] is a businessman and with dual Lebanese and French citizenship.[2] Owner of a communications group in Ukraine, called Ukraine Fingers, it is known in France for its participation in the reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of here! For her many appearances at parties and jet setting the press people.[3] He is a regular donor and guest at AMFAR charity dinner in Cannes.[3][4][5]

Careers in Ukraine

Omar Harfouch is of Lebanese origin. In Kiev, he owns with his brother Valid Arfush, the Supernova media group which holds between the other first in Ukraine creates FM radio Supernova[3] and is publisher and editor of the magazine in Russian Paparazzi.[6]

He made his fortune in Ukraine at the age of 28 years (to 1997).[7]

It is also a Ukrainian composer, il est l'auteur des chansons Lune, Love, Ou est-tu ?, Love Gone .

He organized the Elite Model Look contest in Ukraine from 1997 to 2000.

Declaring that "the world of fashion needed a revolution," he founded with his brother Walid, a company based in Geneva and in Ukraine in charge of organizing beauty contests in which the jury is composed of user s can vote directly on the Internet.[8] In 2002, he organized the final of Miss World Net in Tripoli, accompanied by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, despite the international embargo that was imposed on the country at that time.[9]

Career in France

He became known to the general public in France taking part in April 2006, the reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of here! the benefit of Reporters Without Borders. During the program, it is the center of a controversy when he says he was victim of "about racist" (it's black skin) from Marielle Goitschel which in turn does not claim to have treated "only minus".[10] The French media are interested then him, and he is the subject of several shows like Capital that updates his personality and Zone prohibited on M6. He participated in talk shows, whether at Marc-Olivier Fogiel, with Jean-Marc Morandini, or at Laurent Ruquier.

Soon after, with Endemol, he organized the Miss Europe, initially presented on TF1, but that the chain had decided to sell.[11]

In May 2006, after participating in the radio broadcast of Cauet Cauet tear on Fun Radio, he filed a complaint against him for defamation and racial abuse for statements uttered during the show and taken by the magazine interview in July 2006[12]  · .[13] A few months later, Cauet found guilty of public defamation of an individual sentenced to 500 euro fine and one euro in damages.[14] Il intente 23 procès en première instance et en cour d'appel including two against Geneviève de Fontenay,[15] and then the four lawsuits against the magazine Interview scandal.

In October 2006, he released a book: Mysteries and Scandals ... fortune. The same year, he released his autobiography with a deliberately provocative title Omar Harfouch: Confessions of a millionaire, in which he sets things straight with the French "celebrity scene" and the so-called "presse people".

References

  1. ↑ Omar Harfouch: the liar mystery , France Sunday, 21 April 2006.
  2. ↑ Me Barillon the land of supermodels - Elite competition agency in Ukraine , Le Matin, 4 April 2000.
  3. 1 2 3 Omar Harfouch, the case for rolling glitter RSF , Marianne, 29 April 2006 ; 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2015, p. 211. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0
  4. ↑ Interview Fontenay and convicted of defamation , Le Nouvel Observateur, 24 June 2008.
  5. ↑ Menard, the man who wants to spoil the Beijing Olympics , The World, 9 April 2008.
  6. ↑ A bomb is the editor of the monthly Paparazzi , Reporters Without Borders 30 September 2005.
  7. ↑ So people TV report
  8. ↑ MissNet, beauty contests revolutionary Internet, started in Ukraine , Canoe inc., 30 April 2001.
  9. ↑ Gaddafi plays host to beauty pageant , The Independent, 4 November 2002.
  10. ↑ Richard Virenque wins "I am a disaster, get me out of here" , Le Figaro, 15 October 2007.
  11. ↑ Miss France / Europe Miss: No more! , TouteLaTélé, 7 February 2007.
  12. ↑ Omar Harfouch complaint against Cauet , Le Nouvel Observateur, 7 .
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSuQIj8l55g
  14. ↑ Sebastien Cauet convicted of defamation, Media Matin Quebec, 15 February 2008.
  15. ↑ "Genevieve de Fontenay loses his case against Omar Harfouch"

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