This Friday, June 19, relatives, admirers and fans gathered at Père-Lachaise, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, to attend the funeral of Marjane Satrapi. The author of Persepolisthe autobiographical saga devoted to his childhood in Iran and his exile in Europe, died suddenly on June 4 at the age of 56. Among the stars present to pay tribute to the memory of the world-famous artist, actress Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Maistrosi appeared particularly upset. Like the Canadian actress last seen in the series White LotusCharlotte Le Bon, the columnist Enora Malagré, the novelist Tristane Banon, the president of the Île-de-France Region Valérie Pécresse, the columnist Sophia Aram, all present on this sad day.
The actor and singer Gwendal Marimoutou, the lawyer Stéphane Hasbanian, the Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani and the minister attached to the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs, Alice Rufo, also made the trip to honor his memory. All these personalities were present to support both parents of Marjane Satrapi, which appeared particularly at the exit of Père-Lachaise. And if the heart was all the heavier on this Friday, it is because those close to Marjane Satrapi revealed that she was “died of sadness a little more than a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”.
Marjane Satrapi “died of sadness” after the disappearance of her husband Mattias Ripa in 2025
Born in Sweden in 1972, this trained economist met Marjane Satrapi in Paris during a university exchange before marrying her for 31 years of a close life together. Mattias Ripa was essential in his wife’s work, acting in turn as financier, producer or co-writer. His death on April 8, 2025, at only 53 years old, broke the artist who had written on Instagram: “Because I lost the love of my life.” Her close friend, the sociologist Azadeh Kian, had confided to franceinfo that Marjane Satrapi was no longer the same since this tragedy. She often repeated: “I stop fighting and I want to leave”. Before passing away, however, she had achieved the creation of the « Foundation pour le cinema Mattias et Marjane Ripa-Satrapi » to support foreign students in Paris.
When Marjane Satrapi confided in his non-desire for motherhood.
Beyond his political battles and his work PersepolisMarjane Satrapi has always embodied a figure of absolute independence, refusing to bow to the dictates of society, notably about her non-desire for motherhood. “From the age of 30, in every interview, I was asked if I had children and why I didn’t have any.”she said in 2011. If she ensured « adore » other people’s children, she preferred to see them “go home in the evening with their parents”. Claiming total freedom to lead her professional and personal life, she confessed to the newspaper 20 Minutes in 2015: “All my life, I have planned everything so that I could wake up at 11 a.m. For no reason in the world, I would wake up on Sunday morning to go to André Citroën Park because a child needs to get some fresh air. I can’t ! HAS”.
