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RIP Jean-Philippe (JP) Iliesco de Grimaldi (1948 to 2015) It is with great regret that we learned that JP Iliesco died in his sleep last week at his home in West London. JP was a well-loved, visionary, swashbuckling business entrepreneur who will be sorely missed. If there was a deal to close, JP would be there to close it. JP was born in Paris, an only child to a medical family. JP initially studied medicine and then law before moving into the music business. Here he worked on TV and film music before making his first fortune producing and masterminding the worldwide hit “Magic Fly” by Space. In 1980 he moved to London and partnered with Rusty Egan to co-found Metropolis Music. They went on to purchase the famous Trident Studios, release several records as well as operating the Camden Palace nightclub with Steve Strange. JP worked in music publishing creating hits with Visage, Soft Cell and Beverley Craven & Roxette and numerous others. He also worked with James Palumbo during the early stages of the establishing of Ministry Of Sound as the major music brand it is today. In the late 90’s JP expanded into the Internet area working on one of the first wave of Internet flotations (World-online for 12 Billion Euros) and JFax / J2 (JCOM). In 2006 JP co-founded and established the MTherapy. An anti-aging skincare system in which he was passionately and actively involved with until his death. JP was married once but had no children. He is survived however by thousands of friends who remember his bombastic love for life and for whom the term “bon vivant” was surely invented. Взято отсюда