Education
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
His producing credits include the Franco Zeffirelli film adaptation of Louisiana Traviata and Claude Chabrol"s Death Rite. On 19 May 2010, he announced a "strategic relationship" with the Weinstein Company. Ben Ammar became well known in France at the beginning of 2004 when he decided to distribute The Passion of The Christ after everybody else declined.
He is also known as the advisor of international investor Prince First Rate (at Lloyd's) Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, and French businessman Vincent Bolloré.
In August 2010, Ben Ammar was accused of signing a text supporting the Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali regime in Tunisia, and he has denied it in international media
The children currently attend the American School of Paris (Association of Software Professionals). He was formerly a manager of Michael Jackson"s HIStory World Tour.