The war between the family of Alain Delon, one of the last leading men of the golden age of French cinema, is adding a new chapter every day so far in 2024. The latest was carried out by the French Public Prosecutor's Office this Thursday January 11, has ordered a medical examination of the health of the 88-year-old actor to determine whether, as requested by his eldest son Anthony Delon, 59 years old, he is under should be granted judicial protection. A day earlier, the youngest of the family, Alain-Fabien, had denounced his sister Anouchka (33 years old), a week after Anthony had also denounced her. In statements to broadcaster BFMTV last Tuesday, he assured that his sister was using “crooked mafia methods” against her father. At 29, the youngest of the brothers has been the quietest so far – despite being the only one living with Alain Delon in the Douchy residence south of Paris – but Wednesday's complaint shows that he and Anthony have a common front against Anouchka.
According to the firstborn son of the Leopard actor and French actress and film director Francine Canovas, known as Nathalie Delon, the differences are not related to the inheritance of the cinema myth, but rather to their willingness to spend their final days in France. “I want to start by putting out a fire (…). “All these stories about money, inheritances, these assumptions make me sick, because that's not what it's about,” Anthony told CNews television on January 5, a day after his interview on Paris Match in which he described the deteriorating condition of the His father's health since the stroke he suffered in 2019. In the magazine he also accused Anouchka, daughter – like the younger brother – of Delon and the Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen, of manipulating him and concealing his father's neurological examinations. “Everything has been resolved (…) My sister owns 50% of my father's entire assets. “My brother (Alain-Fabien) and I have the so-called reserve share, i.e. 25%,” explained the first-born. He and his brother want their father to stay in his impressive residence in Douchy – where he even had a chapel built, he explained – while his sister wants to “return” the star to Switzerland, where he has his administrative residence and the Swiss Citizen since 1999. What worries Anouchka, according to his brothers, is that Alain Delon “will be considered a French citizen again,” which would entail “a huge tax” post-mortem.
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But it goes both ways, and when Anthony and Alain-Fabien have formed a common front against her sister, she has welcomed the clan's patriarch into her team. The actor, who is starring in his biggest family drama at the end of his life, announced that he would file a complaint against him after his son's statements. He accuses him of a “media scandal” and an intention to harm him and his daughter. Through his lawyer, Alain Delon also made it clear that he “cannot stand the aggressiveness of his son Anthony, who keeps telling him that he is senile” and that he assures that “he has lived his last Christmas”. Immediately afterwards, Anouchka also announced a complaint against Anthony for defamation, threats and harassment. Asked about his father's complaint, Anthony again argued that Anouchka was manipulating him and that was why he had sought “judicial protection” for the actor.
Anthony Delon and his father Alain Delon attend the funeral of Jean-Paul Belmondo at Eglise Saint Germin des Pres on September 10, 2021 in Paris, France.Laurent Viteur (Getty Images)
Alain Delon's lawyer, Cristophe Ayela, in a letter addressed to the public prosecutor's office, agrees that the actor be examined by a doctor, but demands that a Swiss doctor also decide what measures to take regarding his state of health to obtain your consent as to whether therapeutic treatment will be carried out or not. Ayela alludes in her request to having access to an “alarming letter” from the interpreter’s Swiss doctor, in which he warned about the “lack of continuity of medical care in France.” Given his deteriorated condition and the numerous pathologies from which he suffers, the lawyer sees the need for “regular follow-up” with “regular examinations, care and check-ups”. To this end, it seems essential to her that she “continues the treatment that she started during her last stay” in the Swiss clinic that she visited in June 2021. But the only one who seems to agree with Ayela's actions is Anouchka. On the contrary, the behavior of his brothers, according to the lawyer, “risks causing the premature death of Alain Delon”, as he denounces that they have appointed a family doctor “who has no competence”.
Plagued by an unhappy and lonely childhood, Alain Delon imposed a brutal upbringing on his two children, which Anthony describes in a book (Entre chien et loup) published in March 2023: “I could have concluded that this man, my father , it was.” not “He loved me and so he let a part of me be destroyed.” This conflictual relationship contrasts with the love that the actor expresses for his daughter Anouchka, born in 1990, who is regularly referred to as “the woman of his life ” referred to as. This complicity led to the actress also presenting her father with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. She was the only one of all the children her father invited to the ceremony before she was named executor. “He never hid his fondness for his daughter,” said the actor’s biographer Bernard Violet in an interview with Le Parisien published last Thursday.
Alain Delon accepts the Palme d'Or from his daughter Anouchka Delon during the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2019. Eamonn M McCormack (Getty Images)
But Anthony, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien were not always divided into two camps. Last July, the French film star's three children jointly filed a complaint against Hiromi Rollin, the star's “lady-in-waiting,” a label she rejects. The court opened an investigation into “moral harassment.” According to the then lawyer of the three Delon offspring, Hiromi Rollin, “since the actor's stroke, he has been isolating Alain Delon from his loved ones, friends and family with maneuvers and threats.” Hiromi Rollin was expelled from the large family estate, and her lawyer For his part, he announced that he wanted to file a complaint “against members of the Delon family and security forces for serious intentional violence (…) proven by a medical certificate.” Another in this mix of accusations and lawsuits that is only growing in the Delon family.