Head of Paris's famed Moulin Rouge cabaret dies at 83
AFP
PARIS- Jacki Clerico, who headed the Paris cabaret Moulin Rouge for 50 years and revived its famed revues featuring plumed can-can dancers, has died at 83, the establishment said on Monday.
The Moulin Rouge in Paris's vibrant Pigalle district has become synonymous with the can-can and was immortalised in the Oscar-nominated 2001 film of the same name.
Clerico, who was suffering from cancer, died Sunday in the American Hospital in the posh Paris suburb of Neuilly.
He took charge of the cabaret, marked by a trademark red windmill over its door, in 1962 and headed it until his death.
The club's dancers were famously portrayed by post-Impressionist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in his paintings.
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