Anouchka Delon defended herself in Elle magazine on February 21. She said her two brothers had not known how to confront their father.

Alain Delon's eldest son, Anthony, filed a complaint against Anouchka. The two brothers have been tearing each other apart for months, it has been reported. The case has been referred to the European Court of Human Rights as a "war of words" and a "trial of the century’s most serious kind”