Actor Alain Delon, placed under judicial protection

French actor Alain Delon, who at 88 suffers from serious health problems, has been placed under judicial protection amid disputes between his three children over the best way to safeguard their interests.

A judge responsible for the protection of people made the decision and appointed a guardian of the interests of the legendary interpreter, as reported this Monday, January 29, by the BFM channel, which specified that the judicial decision was communicated this morning to the Delon family.

It was the French prosecutor's office that on January 11 ordered a medical examination of the actor's state of health to determine whether to place him under judicial protection, as requested by his eldest son, Anthony Delon, 59 years old.

The mission of the guardian, whose identity has not been revealed for now, will be focused on medical monitoring of Delon and the choice of specialists who care for him.

As a general rule, people placed under this protection can legally carry out numerous acts on their own, but not those of certain importance, such as the sale of properties, which are supervised by the figure of the guardian.

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The exchange of accusations and lawsuits between Alain Delon's children intensifies, and the actor chooses sides

The court decision comes after several weeks of disputes between the actor's three children, Anthony, Anouchka (33 years old) and Alain Fabien, who have even exchanged complaints between them.

The two sons reproach Anouchka for wanting to take his father out of the Douchy residence (south of Paris) to take him to Switzerland.

Alain Fabien, 29, said on television that his sister was using “crooked, mafia methods” with respect to his father.

With these lawsuits filed between them and a string of accusations crossed in the media, the actor's heirs exposed the family's internal quarrels.

The eldest of them, Anthony, was the first to open fire when accusing his stepsister of having hidden information from them about the true state of their father's health, an argument that was also supported by the youngest, Alain Fabien, brother of the sister's father and mother. medium, Anouchka.

The young woman, who according to the will will receive half of the inheritance, while her brothers will share the rest (25% each), has always been her father's favorite, as he himself revealed throughout his life.

This complicity led the actress to also present the honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival to her father in 2019;

She was the only one of all the children invited by her father to the ceremony, before being appointed executor of her will.

Resident in Switzerland, he intends to take the actor there so that, after his death, he is not declared a tax resident in France, which would increase the bill to obtain his part of the legacy, according to Anthony, who together with Alain Fabien ensures that the will of the actor is to die in the residence that he had built in Douchy, near the Loire.

The actor has administrative residence there and has held Swiss nationality since 1999.

Alain Delon and his daughter Anouchka Delon at the screening of the film 'Hidden Life', at the Cannes Film Festival, in May 2019. Anadolu Agency (Getty Images)

Beyond the complaints between brothers, last year Delon's three children were united in a legal action against Hiromi Rollin, a woman who began as the actor's assistant on filming and later assumed more responsibilities.

The three heirs of the actor feared that Rollin, who was the one who spent the most time with him, wanted to take over his will and thus take something from his legacy, so they filed a complaint that a few weeks ago was dismissed by French justice.

In the course of the investigation of this complaint for abuse of weakness, last July, Delon was subjected to an examination by a doctor, to whom he confessed: "I want to die, life is over," as revealed last week by the newspaper

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The doctor noted in his report that the actor had “very weak morale” and that he suffered “a state of physical and mental exhaustion with a significant suicidal risk.”

The investigation, which also included the interrogation of other people and the analysis of the actor's and Rollin's phones, determined that there was no evidence of the accusations presented by the heirs against the woman.

Delon, performer of films such as

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suffered a cerebral vascular accident in 2019 from which he did not recover completely.