Known For: Writing
Born: July 22, 1946
Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Died: February 5, 2025

Paul-Loup Sulitzer

Paul Loup Karl Sulitzer (22 July 1946 – 6 February 2025) was a French financier and author. Before he turned seventeen, he was already a self-made millionaire. Sulitzer used his financial experience and knowledge in his books, which often related to the business world. Many of his books were ghost-written by Loup Durand. Sulitzer's father was a Jewish immigrant from Romania who died when Sulitzer was 10. Six years later Sulitzer joined a trading company that operated in the Middle East. According to his editor, he became the youngest CEO in France at age 21 and made his fortune selling gadgets (notably keychains that were very popular between the years 1960 and 1970) in the UK that he imported from the Far East. In 1968 he incorporated a holding company and established a financial consultant firm. In 1980, Sulitzer pitched a literary genre concept he called “finance Western” to Denoël…