Career
Owner of a communications group in Ukraine, called Ukraine Fingers, it is known in France for its participation in the reality show I"m a Celebrity, Get Maine Out of here! Foreign her many appearances at parties and jet setting the press people. He is a regular donor and guest at AMFAR charity dinner in Cannes. Omar Harfouch is of Lebanese origin.
He made his fortune in Ukraine at the age of 28 years (to 1997).
He organized the Elite Model Look contest in Ukraine from 1997 to 2000. He became known to the general public in France taking part in April 2006, the reality show I"m a Celebrity, Get Maine Out of here! the benefit of Reporters Without Borders.
During the program, it is the center of a controversy when he says he was victim of "about racist" (it"s black skin) from Marielle Goitschel which in turn does not claim to have treated "only minus". The French media are interested then him, and he is the subject of several shows like Capital that updates his personality and Zone prohibited on M6.
He participated in talk shows, whether at Marc-Olivier Fogiel, with Jean-Marc Morandini, or at Laurent Ruquier.
Soon after, with Endemol, he organized the Mission Europe, initially presented on TF1, but that the chain had decided to sell. In May 2006, after participating in the radio broadcast of Cauet Cauet tear on Fun Radio, he filed a complaint against him for defamation and racial abuse for statements uttered during the show and taken by the magazine interview in July 2006 ·. A few months later, Cauet found guilty of public defamation of an individual sentenced to 500 euro fine and one euro in damages.
Il intente 23 procès en première instance et en cour d"appel including two against Geneviève de Fontenay, and then the four lawsuits against the magazine Interview scandal.
In October 2006, he released a book: Mysteries and Scandals.. fortune. The same year, he released his autobiography with a deliberately provocative title Omar Harfouch: Confessions of a millionaire, in which he sets things straight with the French "celebrity scene" and the so-called "presse people".
