Overview
- Her daughters announced Friday that Farès had died at 57 and asked for privacy.
- She stopped swimming at a private Paris club on April 12 and was underwater for an estimated three to four minutes before other swimmers pulled her out.
- Bystanders performed CPR and used a defibrillator, and she was taken to La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital and placed in an induced coma.
- Investigators have opened an inquiry and are analyzing surveillance footage, and they report no indication so far of third-party involvement.
- Farès had disclosed serious health problems, including a 2007 brain operation for an aneurysm and three heart surgeries, and she had been preparing a first feature with TF1 as writer-director.