Amanda Lear Ex-Husband: Meet Alain-Philippe Malagnac

Amanda Lear was previously married to Alain-Philippe Malagnac. He was the adopted son of French writer, Roger Peyrefitte, their relationship being the subject of several of the latter’s works.

As an adult, Malagnac’s career included proprietorship of Le Bronx, one of the first openly gay nightclubs in Paris, and briefly managing French singer Sylvia Vartan, a disastrous undertaking which almost caused bankruptcy for Peyrefitte, who was forced to sell artworks and erotic antiquities to pay the resulting debts.

In 1978, Malagnac met Amanda Lear in Paris and in April 1979, while on a trip to the United States, they married.

Their marriage lasted 21 years until his death. On Saturday, December 16, 2000, Malagnac was killed by smoke in a fire at his recently bought farmhouse in Saint-Etienne-du-Gres. He died just six weeks after Peyrefitte.