Alexandre Stavisky
Person Or Being In Fiction
1886 – 1934
Who was Alexandre Stavisky?
Serge Alexandre Stavisky was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair.
Alexandre Stavisky, who became known as le beau Sacha, was a Polish Jew born in modern-day Ukraine whose parents had moved to France. He tried various professions, working as a café singer, as a nightclub manager, as a worker in a soup factory, and as the operator of a gambling den. He received French citizenship in 1910. In the 1930s he managed municipal pawnshops in Bayonne but also moved in financial circles. He sold lots of worthless bonds and financed his "hockshop" on the surety of what he called the emeralds of the late Empress of Germany — which later turned out to be glass.
In 1927, Stavisky was put on trial for fraud for the first time, charged with a 6 million pound fraud. However, the trial was postponed again and again, and he was granted bail 19 times.
Faced with exposure in December 1933, Stavisky fled. On 8 January 1934, the police found him in a Chamonix chalet dying from two gunshot wounds to the head. Surgeons struggled to save him but he died early in the hours of January 9.
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- Born
- Nov 20, 1886
Ukraine - Also known as
- Ставиский, Александр
- Spouses
- Nationality
- France
- Died
- Jan 8, 1934
- Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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