Husband of Lolo Ferrari Held For Questioning

From today's Times of London:

THE husband of Lolo Ferrari, a porn starlet who claimed to have the biggest breasts in Europe, was detained by police yesterday for questioning on possible charges of failing to prevent her death. Mlle Ferrari, 37, whose massively implanted breasts had made her a "trash TV" celebrity, died in her sleep on March 6 from an overdose of tranquillisers and other drugs, according to an initial post-mortem examination in April. An investigating judge has continued to pursue the possibility that Eric Vigne, 52, her husband and manager, bore some responsibility for the death of a woman who has been widely depicted as a victim of commercial greed.

From Germaine Greer's 9/22/00 article in the Observer:

On 5 March this year, Lolo Ferrari finally succeeded in dying, though most of the visitors to the 33,200 Lolo Ferrari websites neither know that nor care. The process of self-destruction had begun long before, when she was Eve Valois, of a good middle-class Breton family. She was 16 and had never been out with a boy when she caught the eye of a 38-year-old used-car dealer who was looking to change his line of business. They were barely married before, Svengali to her Trilby, he put her to work posing for photos de charme, as the French call them, and began designing the new body that would make her a porn superstar.

After 22 operations, Lolo Ferrari had a Michael Jackson nose so tiny that she couldn't breathe through it; bulging synthetic cheekbones; a mouth so swollen with collagen that she could hardly form intelligible words; and huge spherical breast implants that weighed 2.8 kilos apiece and compressed her ribcage so much that she was running on one-quarter of her lung capacity. Designing her breast cones had involved complex fleshly engineering which was carried out, as you would expect, by a surgeon who specialises in sex changes.

Lolo wanted to be buried under her huge breasts, in a white coffin, wearing her favourite pink ballgown with her teddy bear in her arms. Vigne said he was grief-stricken by her loss, but it will make no material difference to his life. By the time she died at 30 - half-crazy, incapable of leaving her house, living on a diet of cola, cabbage soup and prescription drugs - Lolo 2000 had already generated his stock-in-trade, the image bank that will provide a good income for the rest of his life.