Paul-Loup Karl Sulitzer, a French financier and author, was born on July 22, 1946, in Boulogne-Billancourt. Before he turned seventeen, he had already amassed a significant fortune, making him a self-made millionaire. Sulitzer leveraged his financial expertise and knowledge to write books that often focused on the business world.
Many of his books were ghostwritten by Loup Durand, a journalist and writer. Sulitzer's father, a Jewish immigrant from Romania, passed away when Sulitzer was just ten years old. Six years later, Sulitzer joined a trading company that operated in the Middle East.
According to his editor, Sulitzer became the youngest CEO in France at the age of 21 and made his fortune by importing and selling gadgets, including keychains that were extremely popular between 1960 and 1970, in the UK. In 1968, he incorporated a holding company and established a financial consulting firm.
In 1980, Sulitzer proposed the production of a "western finance" novel, which would become a finance-fiction adventure. Loup Durand wrote the book, titled Money, which garnered a large audience. This was followed by the publication of Cash! (1981) and Fortune (1982),which told the story of Franz Cimballi, a vigilante businessman.
The duo's next novel, Le Roi Vert (1983),was a romantic saga that achieved significant public success and was translated into 30 languages. By the end of the 1980s, Sulitzer was a lecturer at an international meeting in Geneva, alongside other prominent figures such as François Spoerry, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, and others, as part of the Amiic (World Real Estate Investment Organization).
However, Sulitzer's life took a dramatic turn in 2000, when he was arrested, along with the son of former socialist president Mitterrand, for illegally selling weapons to Angola.
