2023-05-20 17:51:41
Ari Boulogne, putative son of Alain Delon, was found dead at his home, rue Cambronne in Paris (15th arrondissement), on the night of Friday to this Saturday, according to our information, confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. A 58-year-old woman, who would be his companion, was placed in police custody for “failure to assist a person in danger”. The measure was decided to “clarify the circumstances in which the death of the victim, who was hemiplegic”, underlines the Paris prosecutor’s office. The investigation was entrusted to the police station of the 15th arrondissement.
It was around 4 a.m. that the police were called by this 58-year-old woman, who had just discovered the 60-year-old photographer, dead in his living room, his body in a state of advanced decomposition. The fifties, who would be a childhood friend of Ari Boulogne, would have explained that she was returning from a trip to the region when she made the macabre discovery, accompanied by her 21-year-old son.
According to the first elements of the investigation, Ari Boulogne suffered from health problems. He had recently been transported by the emergency services to the European hospital Georges Pompidou. “The last time I spoke with him, a month ago, he was in a wheelchair, following a bad fall”, slips a source close to the victim. The body of the artist was taken to the medico-legal institute of Paris to undergo an autopsy.
Legal battle
Ari Boulogne, a 60-year-old photographer, claimed for decades to be the son of Alain Delon, which 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 fleeting affair with the comedian in the early 1960s.
Ari Boulogne, born Christian Aaron Päffgen, had filed in September 2019 a request 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 declared “the French jurisdiction territorially incompetent”. A decision confirmed on appeal in September 2021, because “Alain Delon provides proof that his home is in Switzerland”, where he has resided since 1984, according to the judgment of the Orleans Court of Appeal. Ari Boulogne had instructed his lawyer to appeal in cassation. The appeal is still ongoing. The legal fight could be taken up by his two children, Charles, 24, and Blanche, 17.
Ari Boulogne was largely raised by Edith, Alain Delon’s mother. She then adopted him, with her second husband, Paul Boulogne, who gave him his name. In his autobiography (“Love never forgets”, Pauvert editions), Ari Boulogne poured out his close relationship with his mother, who had plunged him into drug addiction. “From my 16 years until the end, we shared the same drug, the same syringe. It was a way of being together “, he confided in 2018 to the JDD.
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