It was between crying and nostalgia for the past,” Hourcade said. “When I decide to divorce Karl, I gave back the ashes…and he sent me back by fax nine pages, telling me that he will never be happy, and he was very disappointed about, you know, about our relationship. Jacques de Bascher and Karl Lagerfeld in Paris in 1979. That’s why he let Jacques, um, go everywhere, with many attractions for him,” said Patrick Hourcade, an artist and close friend of the designer, who hid Lagerfeld’s mother’s ashes for two years in his bedroom. “Karl and Jacques was absolutely the perfect love story and the perfect impossible story. Gilles Defour, a former colleague of Lagerfeld at Chanel, recalled introducing the designer to Jacques de Bascher, who Lagerfeld admitted was the love of his life, and with whom he got into a bitter love triangle with Yves Saint Laurent. The documentary also touched base on the designer’s love life. It’s like to live a lot of things and everything crashes.…You don’t really know who you are because at one point you are living in a different world. “He gave me the chance to make new things and to arrive in a new world. Tropez, where he currently lives, and for better and for worse, completely changed his life. Jondeau, who had his first brush with the designer as a 15-year-old from a rough-and-tumble Paris neighborhood conscripted to move some 18th-century furniture for his father, said Lagerfeld helped him buy a house in St. It did offer some fresh insight into the life of the late designer, however.įor example, it was revealed that Jondeau was the only one who knew about Lagerfeld’s final illness, which started in June 2015, and in order to shield this news from the press, all drugs issued to Lagerfeld were prescribed under Jondeau’s name from the pharmacy.

Inheritance talks aside, the documentary, which aired on BBC2, painted a picture of the designer that was largely in line with how he has always been known: he was a workaholic, a marketing genius, a vintage furniture addict, a generous friend, but at the same time a very distant and private person. Sebastien Jondeau and Karl Lagerfeld AFP via Getty Images This kind of big succession can take 10 years,” and the fact that his assets are split between France and Monaco means that the cost of processing the fortune, mostly taxes, will be enormous. They are model Jake Davis, Lebar, Giabiconi, Jondeau, Caçote and Kroenig and his son Hudson, who is Lagerfeld’s godson.īut since Lucien Frydlender, Lagerfeld’s main accountant for more than three decades, who is believed to be the only person with enough knowledge about the late designer’s assets to help with his succession, has relocated to Switzerland and was unable to be reached to answer any questions due to what was described as “ill health,” it leaves the presumed heirs in the dark about what they are going to receive.ĭegoulet, who also helped Lagerfeld broker collaboration deals, explained that, “The situation left at the end was not very tidy. It’s was reported in 2020 that there are seven beneficiaries to Lagerfeld’s estate. Jamison Kroenig, Brad Kroenig and Hudson Kroenig.

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