Actor alain delon Death: why the actor’s children were so torn apart

On one side, his daughter Anouchka whom he adored. On the other, his sons Anthony and Alain-Fabien with whom he had stormy relations . And a common enemy in these siblings who are tearing each other apart: Hiromi Rollin , the (maligned) companion of “Cheetah”.

“My father didn’t love me”

Marked by an unhappy and lonely childhood, Alain Delon imposed a particularly brutal education on his sons, which his eldest Anthony describes in the book Entre chien et loup (2023).

A conflictual relationship which contrasts with the love that Alain Delon has for his daughter Anouchka, born in 1990 and regularly described as the “woman of (his) life”.

This complicity led the young actress to be the only one invited in May 2019 to the Cannes Film Festival, to present the Honorary Palme d’Or to her father, a few months before the stroke which marked the start of his decline.

50% for Anouchka, 50% for Alain-Fabien and Anthony

Executor of the actor’s will, Anouchka was also manager of the company Alain Delon International Distribution, pillar of the family business. The actor had finally made very favorable arrangements for his daughter in terms of inheritance… to the detriment of his sons.

“My sister has 50% of my father’s entire fortune. My brother [ Alain-Fabien, the youngest, Editor’s note.] and I, we are what we call the reserve share, so we have 25%,” explained Anthony in January 2024, when the fratricidal war broke out on a large scale. day.

On the other hand, “my brother and I want my father’s wishes to be respected” by leaving him in his home in Douchy (Loiret), he added.

The two brothers also accused Anouchka, who lives in Switzerland, of wanting to “ bring” the star back to her for tax reasons. While admitting to being the favorite child, their sister put forward medical reasons to justify repatriation.

Anthony or the difficulty of getting rid of the label of “son of”

Although the three children have the same initials as their father (AD), each has had a different destiny. Anthony was born in 1964. The fruit of the star’s love affair with actress Nathalie Delon, the boy experienced a troubled childhood, marked by divorce and the absence of his parents.

Same blue eyes, feline gait, false thug air… After stints in a reformatory then in prison for possession of weapons, he launched into the cinema but struggled to get rid of the label of “son of”

He preferred to devote himself to fashion, via a line of leather jackets, called AD… against which his father sued him. The tensions between the father and his eldest son will not end there.

In January 2024, Alain Delon filed a complaint against Anthony, after a shocking interview with the latter in Paris-Match. The son denounced the declining state of health of the 88-year-old star and accused his half-sister Anouchka of manipulating him.

Me Christophe Ayela, lawyer for Alain Delon, then indicated that his client was “extremely shocked by the media outburst orchestrated by his son Anthony” and his desire to “harm” him as well as his daughter Anouchka.

Alain-Fabien, the discomfort of living in the shadow of his father

Alain-Fabien was born in 1994 to the couple that the actor formed with the Dutch model Rosalie Van Breemen: the young man, four years younger than his sister Anouchka, first made headlines for a shooting that occurred during a a party he had organized as a minor.

He received a suspended prison sentence and confessed his discomfort in a book, De la race des seigneurs (2019), the story of an apprentice actor dreaming of equaling his father, a famous actor.

Seeming more peaceful, the thirty-year-old had posted photos of Christmas Eve in Douchy at the end of December 2023, showing him at the table alongside his father, Anthony and his daughters, Lou and Liv. Anouchka’s absence had been noticed.

Ari Boulogne, the never recognized son

On the sidelines of these divided siblings, but ultimately reunited at his bedside, Alain Delon never recognized the paternity of Ari Boulogne, son of Velvet Underground singer Nico, with whom he had an affair in the 1960s.

The photographer, who bears a striking resemblance to the “Samurai,” was raised by the actor’s own mother.

He had several stays in psychiatric hospitals and detoxification treatments. Ari Boulogne died in May 2023 at the age of 60, without being recognized by his father.

Hiromi Rollin, the common enemy

Despite their differences, the Delon siblings stood up against a common enemy: Hiromi Rollin, their father’s companion, who had lived with him since the actor’s cardiovascular accident in 2019.

At the beginning of July 2023, a complaint from the actor’s three children was filed against Hiromi Rollin , in particular for violence against a vulnerable person and abuse of weakness. The Delon children felt that she was becoming “more and more aggressive, denigrating and insulting towards” them and their father.

At the beginning of January, the Montargis public prosecutor’s office ( Loiret ) ended up dismissing the complaints. “None of the offenses accused by the Delon family or Hiromi Rollin appear to be constituted,” justified the public prosecutor Jean-Cédric Gaux, cited by our current Orléans editorial staff .

“I’m not sure I was a good father”

Alain Delon, whose clan was torn apart at the end of his life, adored his daughter as much as he had a conflicting relationship with his two sons, who dreamed of following in his footsteps and making a name for themselves.

But it was ultimately with the same voice that all three of them announced the death of their father on Sunday August 18, 2024 : “Alain Fabien, Anouchka, Anthony, as well as [ his dog ] Loubo, have the immense sorrow of ‘announce the departure of their father’.

Will this disappearance be able to ease the tensions, which have lasted for years? Alain Delon himself recognized his responsibility in this fratricidal war.

“I’m not sure I was a good father to them, nor a good grandfather. Was I up to it? I don’t believe it,” he confided in 2018 to Paris Match.