While the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival began several days ago, parading each year the greatest actors of cinema on the red carpet, the disappearance of Ari Boulogne, the unrecognized child of Alain Delon, causes a stir. His body was found dead at his Parisian home in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, on the night of Friday to Saturday. One person, who said he was his companion was placed in custody for non-assistance to person in danger, said the Paris prosecutor's office, confirming information from the Parisian. The investigation aims to "clarify the circumstances in which the death of the victim, who was hemiplegic", and aged 60 years, may have occurred.
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Illegitimate son
Born in August 1962, Ari Boulogne, whose real name is Christian Boulogne, a photographer by profession, spent his life trying to prove that he was the son of Alain Delon and the German singer Nico. Although the resemblance between the two men is disconcerting, the glory of French cinema has always been denied. Alain Delon has never denied having had a brief affair with Ari's mother, nicknamed "the Garbo of punk", top model, singer, actress and soon muse of the Velvet Underground.
As a child, Ari was raised by the Cheetah actor's own mother, Edith Boulogne, whose name he bears and who officially adopted him with her husband. He had filed an application for recognition of paternity before the court of Orleans, but the French justice had declared itself incompetent because of the place of residence of the star, located in Switzerland. "The ongoing procedure will stop and the file will close. Alain Delon had contested this paternity constantly, "said to AFP the lawyer of the actor, Me Christophe Ayela.
Love never forgets
Ari recounted his chaotic life, dominated by an absence, that of the father, in a book published in 2001, and called Love Never Forgets. On this occasion, he was received on the set of the show Tout le monde en parle, presented by Thierry Ardisson.
Drugs and "artistic magic"
Nico, his mother, was involved in the cinema of Andy Warhol or Philippe Garrel, making her son appear in several films. Singer on the first album of the American rock band The Velvet Underground released in 1967, she then led a solo career for twenty years. As a teenager, Ari had joined her on his tours and plunged with her into drugs and an "artistic fairyland". After Nico's death in 1988, Ari Boulogne had several stays in psychiatric hospitals and detoxification. He was the father of a son.