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Tom Hanks penned an emotional tribute to the man who inspired The Terminal, following his death.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man whose story inspired the Steven Spielberg film, died in the airport he lived in for 18 years on Saturday, November 13.
The Iranian man, who called himself Sir Alfred, is believed to have been born in 1945 but became stuck in legal limbo in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in 1988 after apparently lacking residency papers.
Nasseri is said to have died of natural causes in Terminal 2F, believed to be a heart attack according to an airport official via AFP.