Omar Harfouch

Omar Harfouch (Arabic: عمر حرفوش; born 20 April 1969 in Tripoli in Lebanon)[1] is a businessman with Lebanese citizenship.[2] Owner of a communications group in Ukraine, he is known in France for his participation in the reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of here! and for his many appearances at jet set parties, in videos, and in celebrity magazines.[3] He is a regular donor and guest at AMFAR charity dinner in Cannes.[3][4][5]

Career in Ukraine

Omar Harfouch is of Lebanese origin. In Kiev, he and his brother Valid Arfush own the Supernova media group which includes the FM radio in Ukraine, radio Supernova.[3] He is the publisher and editor of Paparazzi, a magazine in Russian.[6]

He made his fortune in Ukraine at the age of 28 (around 1997).[7] He is also a Ukrainian composer. He organized the Elite Model Look contest in Ukraine from 1997 to 2000.

Declaring that "the world of fashion needed a revolution," he and Walid founded a Geneva-based company in charge of organizing beauty contests in Ukraine in which the jury is composed of Internet users who 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 in April 2006, when he took part in the reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of here! for the benefit of Reporters Without Borders. During the show, he became the center of a controversy when he said he was a victim of "racist remarks" (he has black skin) of Marielle Goitschel, who in turn claimed to have treated him as "just a shrimp" (minus in French).[10] The French media became interested in him, so he participated in several shows like Capital, which highlighted his personality, and Zone interdite on M6. He participated in the talk shows of Marc-Olivier Fogiel, Jean-Marc Morandini, and Laurent Ruquier.

He organized the Miss Europe competition with Endemol, initially presented on TF1, but the channel decided to sell it.[11]

In May 2006, after participating in the radio broadcast of Cauet dechire on Fun Radio, he filed a complaint against Cauet for defamation and racial abuse for statements uttered during the show and published by the magazine Entrevue in July 2006.[12]  · .[13] A few months later, Cauet was found guilty of public defamation of an individual and sentenced to a 500 euro fine and one euro in damages.[14] including two against Geneviève de Fontenay,[15] and four against Entrevue.

In October 2006, he released a book, Mystères, scandales et... fortune (Mysteries, Scandals and... 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 Archived 2009-04-15 at the Wayback Machine , France Sunday, 21 April 2006.
  2. Me Barillon the land of supermodels - Elite competition agency in Ukraine Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine , Le Matin, 4 April 2000.
  3. Omar Harfouch, the case for rolling glitter RSF Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine , 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 Archived 2009-02-27 at the Wayback Machine , 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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