A huge lawyer, Hervé Temime died at the age of 65, his family announced on Monday April 10. Terrible news that caused a wave of excitement, as he was recognized for his work as a tenor of the bar and had worked on the most delicate and high-profile cases. Star in his field, he had defended a host of personalities, such as Bernard Tapie, Roman Polanski or even Gérard Depardieu whom he defended. In his glorious CV, also appears the name of the daughter of the icon Johnny Hallyday, Laura Smet, which he had represented on the thorny file of his inheritance. His famous daughter paid him a poignant tribute.
On the social network, actress Laura Smet, 39-year-old daughter of Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye, took her finest pen to honor the memory of lawyer Hervé Temime: “Hervé my dear Hervé. I’m devastated, I can’t believe it. You so strong so bright. You have been with me like a protective father. (…) This morning I was thinking of you and then they called me to tell me you had disappeared. The fragility of existence…“She praises the humanity of a man “rare” who had “the gift of loving people and the curiosity to really know them”. Describing her heart as “broken”, she ends with a powerful sentence: “I love you so.“A publication which made his older brother David Hallyday react with emotion in particular, writing an emoji of the occasion.