Who is Jean-Claude Darmon, a great friend of Johnny Hallyday, and supervisor of the funeral ? – Gala

Jean-Claude Darmon

Nicknamed “the treasurer of the football,” the self-made man Jean-Claude Darmon has never been denied to the icon Hallyday, he has protected as a brother until the end.

Two gods of the stages, each in their own way, one never ceasing to admire the other. Businessman Jean-Claude Darmon, nicknamed “the treasurer of the football,” will never have anything running out for Johnny. Nor the millions, nor the hours, these last days.

Supervisor of the burial of the idol-Johnny Hallyday , in the same way that he had supported those of their friend Ticky Hogaldo, in 2004, this iron fist in a glove skin was already at Marnes-la-Coquette in the fateful night of 5 to 6 December. Relieving Laeticia of all material issues. Reassuring Jade, 13, and Joy, 9 years, of which he is the sponsor.

With Johnny, it was a friendship of over 25 years. Hallyday had smelled Darmon. “I was friends with Sylvie Vartan, in all good all honor. It has amazed Johnny that we have this kind of relationship. Then, we became friends. He asked me to be the godfather of his daughter Joy. This is not a coincidence. He came from nothing, he was in search of an identity and he too has fought to be number one. We are both athletes, we will not let anything “, explained the businessman, in the JDD, in 2016.

True that their courses will look like. Born in Oran, Algeria, the son of a shoemaker, Jean-Claude Darmon has experienced the uprooting, the insecurity, and the life that is played at the flip of a coin, like Johnny. He is still a kid, when he arrived, with his numerous siblings, in Marseille. “You didn’t shower, but that rubbed dry in the basin. We were clean, both literally and figuratively “, will-t-it. The horizon is limited. Darmon organizations first as a docker on the port of marseille. It is a plodder. A instinctive, the mind sharpened, too.

After being launched into the production of pounds of gold for the clubs of football and rugby, he has this genius idea : to develop the presence of advertising around the stadiums. His meeting with Jean Sadoul, the boss of the football League, accelerates his career. Darmon extends its influence. It is said to be the origin of the emission Téléfoot, aired for the first time in 1977. Most certainly, between the years 1980 and 2010, the ex-docker becomes the ” national director of the promotion of football “, rescuer of the Olympic of Marseille, a negotiator of television rights of the Championship of France, through to the presidency of the Parc des Princes and the takeover of the Paris-Saint-Germain, and manager of the commercial rights of the Blue.

He is all-powerful and wealthy. Without the complex. There are soon two years old, he was justified in The World : “” there is no shame to earn money. The money, the reward is to be the first. This is not the money that motivates me. When I was going to do a big contract, I do not think the commission that I was going to touch it. I love intellectual manipulation of the negotiation, the game of the competition. I am attached to the given word. I was in a hurry and I was going fast. “

Johnny has found a friend at his outrageousness. Of a rare fidelity and unconditional support. Of all the birthdays and all the wake up of the family Hallyday, regardless of the setting, Jean-Claude Darmon will also remain present during the tests.

In December 2009, it already supports Laeticia and eve Johnny, left him in a coma at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. While the idol woke up, did the housework in her surroundings and wants to get back on stage, Darmon goes on the hunt for a new producer with the ability to move several million on a tour.

When death comes prowling again, this time in the form of a cancer of lungs formalized in march 2017, the business man wants to be reassuring on the health and the morale of his friend, behind the microphones RTL : “It’s going well. It goes like the top athlete you know and when he announced that he is in form, Johnny is not lying, he is in great shape. “

Three months later, the insurance is less. Then he should go on tour with Eddy Mitchell and Jacques Dutronc, for a second round of the Old Villains, Johnny is exhausted by his chemotherapy and immunotherapy. He wants to honor its commitments, magré all. Jean-Claude Darmon then puts to his disposal a private jet that the singer can reach his home in Marnes-la-Coquette, every night.

Cut off there, after a brief hospitalization at the clinic Bizet, Johnny has been able to count on his friend until the end. It is Jean-Claude Darmon, a man of all elegance, who has rushed first to console Laeticia, Jade and Joy. And, he has made the promise, the one who does the will never fall off.

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