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Dior Executive Mathilde Favier & Producer Nicolas Altmayer Killed in Car Accident in France

Authorities opened an involuntary manslaughter investigation after the crash killed producer Nicolas Altmayer and Dior executive Mathilde Favier, officials said.

  • On Monday, French film producer Nicolas Altmayer, 61, and Dior public relations executive Mathilde Favier, 57, died in a car accident in western France around 4 p.m.
  • Altmayer was a prominent independent producer behind the 'OSS 117' franchise and films by François Ozon and Bertrand Bonello, while Favier served as director of public relations for Dior Couture, managing VIP relations with celebrities including Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence.
  • LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault called Favier "an exceptional woman whose communicative joy, talent and loyalty were exemplary." Filmmaker Franck Gastambide described Altmayer as his mentor, saying "For 15 years, he was not only my producer but also my mentor, the father I would have wanted to have."
  • Deputy prosecutor Nicolas Leclainche told AFP their vehicle "hit a heavy goods vehicle" while overtaking another. An investigation for involuntary manslaughter has been opened to determine the crash's circumstances.
  • Altmayer leaves a legacy of films by François Ozon and Bertrand Bonello, while Favier founded Esthétique & Cancer and published the 2024 book Living Beautifully in Paris as a personal guide to the French capital.
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Altmayer was known for having produced the films 'OSS 117' and 'Brice de Nice', with Jean Dujardin, and, more recently, 'Alpha', by Julia Ducournau

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Mathilde Favier, director of Dior's international public relations, and her husband Nicolas Altmayer, French film producer, died in the afternoon of Monday 17 August in a car accident in the department of the Deux-Sèvres, in the west of France. According to the reconstruction provided by the local authorities and reported by the newspaper Le Monde, the vehicle of the couple [...] The article "Fatale a frontal crash against a truck during an over…

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ici.fr broke the news on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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