Jacques Servier, founder and president of France’s second-largest drugmaker, has died before his trial over Mediator, a weight-loss pill at the center of the country’s biggest public health scandal in years. Servier died of old age, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday. Officials have blamed at least 500 deaths on Mediator, which was marketed to overweight diabetics but often prescribed for weight loss. Servier posted revenue of 4.2 billion euros ($5.8 billion) in 2013, making it France’s second-biggest drugmaker by sales behind Sanofi.