Career
The Felfort confectionery company was founded in 1912 in Buenos Aires by Fort"s grandfather, Felipe Fort, and soon became one of the top confectionery companies in Argentina. Ricardo"s father, Carlos Augusto Fort, took control of the company after Felipe"s death in 1969. Ricardo Fort developed a close relationship with his mother, the opera singer Marta Campa.
Fort developed businesses in the textile industry and in modeling, as well as owning the Fortmen clothing line.
Fort died on 25 November 2013 in a Buenos Aires clinic, due to cardiac arrest following a gastrointestinal bleeding. He was being treated for a knee injury he suffered a few months before.
He was 45 years old. Just days before, he had also suffered a femoral fracture in Miami, Florida.