French actor Alain Delon to file legal complaint
against son over ‘media outburst’
Anthony Delon told a magazine his father was finding
it hard to accept his frail state of health
Agence
France-Presse in Paris
Thu 4 Jan
2024 19.01 CET
The actor
Alain Delon will file a legal complaint against his son over “a media outburst”
in France’s most prominent magazine, his lawyer has said.
In an
interview published on Thursday, Anthony Delon told Paris Match that his father
was finding it hard to accept his frail state of health, adding that there were
“major risks” that the 88-year-old had celebrated “his last Christmas”.
“He doesn’t
speak much, it tires him or it annoys him when we make him repeat, because his
voice is no longer always clear, or audible,” Anthony Delon said in the
interview. His father, he added, was in a “weakened” state and “can no longer
bear to see himself like that, diminished”.
Within
hours of the publication, however, Alain Delon issued a robust response through
his lawyer Christophe Ayela. The actor was “extremely shocked by the media
outburst orchestrated by his son Anthony”, Ayela told Agence France-Presse, and
would file a legal complaint against him.
The star of
films including Swimming Pool, The Leopard and Purple Noon had told him “he
cannot stand the aggressiveness of his son Anthony who keeps telling him that
he is senile”.
The lawyer
said his client had asked him: “But what father could bear that?”
Alain Delon
had a stroke in July 2019 and now rarely leaves his estate in Douchy in
France’s Loire region. Concern had grown about his state of health after his
family published a picture of a Christmas Eve dinner showing the actor looking
thin and weak.
His
wellbeing had already come into question last year after his three children
filed a complaint against his former live-in assistant Hiromi Rollin, accusing
her of harassment and threatening behaviour.
Rollin, who
was evicted in July from the actor’s property, has written to prosecutors
vehemently denying the accusations against her and has filed a legal complaint
of her own.
French
prosecutors said on Thursday no further action would be taken regarding any of
the complaints, saying there was insufficient evidence to indicate any crime.
But in the
Paris Match interview, Anthony, the son of Alain’s former wife, Nathalie Delon,
spoke of new strains within the family over his father’s care.
He said he
had reported his younger half-sister, Anouchka Delon, the daughter of Alain
Delon and the Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen, to the police for allegedly
failing to inform the family over his father’s performance in cognitive tests
from 2019.
“My sister
never informed my brother and me that between 2019 and 2022, my father had been
subjected to five cognitive tests during his visits to the clinic in
Switzerland and that he did not pass any of them,” he told the magazine.
The results
showed “a cognitive degradation which places my father in a position of
psychological weakness, and therefore of vulnerability”, he added.
Alain
Delon’s lawyer said Anthony had “only one goal, to harm the reputation of his
daughter Anouchka and the unique relationship that he has always had with
Anouchka”.
Anouchka
Delon’s lawyer had said she would file a complaint for defamation and
harassment against her brother Anthony, Le Figaro reported on Thursday.
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