Actor Alain Delon: The unanimous opinion is that his presumptive son looks like the great actor’s former decal Photo: picture alliance/dpa/MAXPPP | Patrice Lapoirie
From the BZ editorial team
Sad news from France: Ari Boulogne, the son of the German singer Nico and allegedly also the French actor Alain Delon, has been found dead in his Paris apartment, according to the public prosecutor.
The authorities thus confirmed a report by the French newspaper “Le Parisien” and announced on Saturday that a person had been arrested in Boulogne’s apartment in the 15th arrondissement for failing to provide assistance.
The aim of further investigations is now to “clarify the circumstances under which the death of the half-paralyzed victim could have occurred,” said the Paris public prosecutor.
Denied for a lifetime
► Ari Boulogne, who lived to be 60, was the son of model Nico, who died in 1988 and rose to international fame as the singer of the ’60s rock band Velvet Underground. Boulogne stated throughout his life that he was the son of acting legend Alain Delon, which he still denies to this day. As a child, however, Boulogne was adopted and raised by Delon’s mother, Edith Boulogne.
In recent years, Ari Boulogne has asked French courts to recognize Delon’s paternity. However, the lawsuits were dismissed with reference to Delon’s foreign place of residence in Switzerland.
The 87-year-old Delon became famous in the 1960s and 1970s with films such as “The Swimming Pool” with his former lover Romy Schneider and “The Leopard” by Luchino Visconti.