According to our information, Ari Boulogne, the illegitimate son of Alain Delon, was found dead at his home, rue de Cambronne in Paris (XVth arrondissement), on the night of Friday to Saturday. A woman, believed to be his companion, was taken into custody to shed light on the circumstances of this tragic event.
Ari Boulogne, a 60-year-old photographer, has claimed for decades to be the son of Alain Delon, something that the monster of French cinema has always disputed. His mother, Nico, model and singer of the famous group Velvet Underground, who died in 1988, has always maintained that her son was the result of a short-lived affair with the actor in the early 1960s.
In September 2019, he filed an application for recognition of paternity before the judicial court of Orléans (Centre-Val de Loire), Alain Delon having a residence in the Loiret. In August 2020, the court had declared "the French jurisdiction territorially incompetent". A decision confirmed on appeal in September 2021, because "Mr. Alain Delon reports proof that his domicile is in Switzerland", where he has resided since 1984, according to the judgment of the Orleans Court of Appeal.
Alain Delon has always denied being the biological father of this child who was however largely raised by Edith, Alain Delon's mother. She then adopted him, along with her second husband, Paul Boulogne, who gave him his name. In his autobiography ("L'amour n'oublie jamais", Pauvert editions), Ari Boulogne poured out on his fusional relationship with his mother, which plunged him into drug addiction. "From the time I was 16 until the end, we shared the same drug, the same syringe. It was a way of being together," he told the JDD in 2018.
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