Anthony, Anouchka, Alain-Fabien… Who are the Delon children, who are torn apart over their father’s estate?

“I’m ashamed that our family life is spread out like this.”, lamented Anouchka Delon, Sunday January 7, on the set of 8 p.m. on TF1. The damage is done: since the Hiromi Rollin affair, named after the ex-lady of the legendary actor, and now during the war of succession between the three children, a day rarely goes by without the Delon’s soap opera is experiencing a new twist. If the patriarch remains silent and only communicates through a lawyer, his three children, less known than their father, are spreading their word in the media and on social networks. Franceinfo makes the presentations.

Anthony Delon, the media elder

Anthony Delon was for a long time the star’s only son, born at the height of his fame in 1964. Four years later, Alain Delon divorced his mother, Nathalie, the only woman the star ever married. The star of Samurai will see this as one of the causes of young Anthony’s turbulent adolescence. And this despite his profession of faith in The New Obs in 1969, promising that his son would not turn “star child” : “IHe won’t have his Ferrari at 18, I assure you. And he will go to the municipal office.” He only stabilized as a teenager with his father, but in fact it was mainly Mireille Darc, the actor’s companion at the time, who took care of him.

When the young man goes into business, in the company of Alexandre Djhouri (who we will find in the suspicions of Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign in 2007), the father blocks it. Even if they are jackets with the AD logo, the initials of all three of them. “Those around him are people who manipulate himdefends Alain Delon in the columns of Paris Match at the time. I fear that he will never see the color of the affairs that are carried out in his name, and therefore in my name… My goal, through this trial, is to punish those who use him.” Anthony Delon will be ordered to pay 16,000 euros in damages to his father. Questioned in Patrick Sabatier’s show “Le Jeu de la vérité”, he replied: “I read here and elsewhere that it was difficult to be Alain Delon’s son. I say it: it is also difficult to be the father of Alain Delon’s son.”

The patriarch will hardly encourage the son’s career in the cinema: “OWe say to ourselves that we are the son of Alain Delon and we add: ‘Why shouldn’t we succeed in the cinema?’ They pissed me off enough in that regard, comments the actor in the Swiss newspaper The Illustrated. I answered them: ‘If I had remained what I was, son of a butcherwe would have had fewer problems.’“

His position in the matter: Anthony Delon was the first to bring out family dissensions in an interview with Paris Match published during the holidays. He denounced the desire of his sister, Anouchka, to bring her father, in poor health, to Switzerland, for tax reasons, he claims. He actually got closer to Alain-Fabien, the youngest of the siblings, and welcomed the broadcast of the recording that the youngest had made of his sister: “Thank you for removing the mask of perfidy, for defending me against the slander and lies that were poured out on me by these two hypocrites”he wrote on Instagram.

Anouchka Delon, the favorite

“I have a daughter who is the love of my life, maybe even a little too much compared to the others”recognized Alain Delon in the show “Thé ou café”, on France 2, in 2018. “Maybe I helped her in a way I didn’t help the others.” From her first steps, Anouchka Delon was placed in the spotlight by her father, with half a dozen covers of Paris Match in his childhood. Likewise, the father will give a big boost to his daughter’s stage career by sharing the poster for the play An ordinary day in 2014. His lawyer, Chrisotphe Ayela, will allude to the famous phrase from the “Game of Truth” in an interview with La Tribune Sunday : “VSt’s very nice to be Alain Delon’s daughter. She has always had an exceptional relationship with her father, which is a relationship of love, respect and affection.”

A Swiss resident, she was chosen by her father to be his executor, in addition to managing his company Alain Delon International Distribution, a pillar of the family business. According to her brother Anthony, who spoke to CNews on January 5, she will inherit 50% of her father’s fortune – estimated at several hundred million euros – compared to 25% for each of her brothers, information that she has not confirmed. “I am made to pay for the trust my father has in me. Of course, I pay for this preference. It is my burden”, she sighed on Sunday January 7 on TF1. This is not the version of the Anthony Delon clan. The eldest criticizes him for an episodic presence at the Douchy manor, in Loiret, where their father spends his old age, when he goes there several times a week, and where the younger Alain-Fabien has settled down.

His position in the matter: For the moment, she is united with her father. Which translates into the fact that she kept the same lawyer as him, Christophe Ayela (who was still last summer the counsel for the whole family in the case opposing them to the ex-lady Hiromi Rollin ). She denies the accusations of her brother Anthony, who was the most virulent against her: she assures that she did not conceal the results of her father’s cognitive tests. “I didn’t lie, I wasn’t aware of these results”, she defended herself on TF1. She also assures that she is not trying to repatriate her father, a Swiss citizen since 1999, to benefit from gentler inheritance taxes: “The only reason to bring him to Switzerland is so that he can be treated. It was planned to do a check-up on him in August, but my brother was against it. I didn’t agree with him stopping his treatment.”

Alain-Fabien Delon, the discreet cadet

The youngest of the siblings, 29 years old, is undoubtedly the least media-oriented of all. As with his big brother Anthony, his ties with his father are distended to say the least. “We don’t talk muchhe said in 2016 in the book Alain Delon, Angel and thug. We see each other for birthdays, Christmas, etc. But there is no real relationship. There’s no such thing as a bad relationship, there’s no such thing.” And like his brother Anthony, he is torn between his mother, Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen, and his father after their stormy separation: “It was horrible, he relates in the magazine She. I remember my father, drunk with rage, telling me: ‘I’m forbidding you from going to your mother’s wedding [avec Alain Afflelou]. Prove to me that you are a man.’ But I was 8 years old and, at that age, you are still a child. That’s his great saying to my father, ‘Be a man’.” In 2010, however, his father obtained permanent custody of the child.

As with his brother Anthony, his adolescence was turbulent to say the least, between exclusions from several colleges, an incident at a party with a gun and even early smoking: “My first cigarette, I was only 9 years old, and it was an Alain Delon” – a brand that is only sold in Asia). Little present in the media, the man nicknamed “Alain Delon Junior” (his Instagram account is called that) has made a career in modeling, notably for Dior. And suffered to make a name for himself: “When I pronounce the sacred name, time stops”he writes in his novel Of the race of lordsalmost an autobiography. “Everything changes. I’m no longer seen. Dad invades the room, saturates the air at the same time as he feeds me. I exist through him. A permanent presence.”

He also started in auteur cinema – “What do you want me to do ? I don’t have my baccalaureate, so for me, it’s actor or waiter.” – but in confidence After-Midnight Meetings. He recounts his experience a little olé olé in She : “I hadn’t really read the script and I especially needed money. I wasn’t disappointed. The first day of filming, I had to cheat on a guy and, later, lick the breasts of a broken-down girl. And then, there was this scene where I had to kiss a girl who could be my mother and which we had to redo a good fifty times. I discovered the film at Cannes during of the screening. I was next to my fiancée. Not easy, the pro. I had to put my hands over her eyes during all the slightly ‘weird’ scenes: 90% of the film.”

His position in the matter: Until now extremely silent, Alain-Fabien Delon published on Instagram a conversation recorded without his sister’s knowledge, at the family table, where we hear Anouchka say to her father: “They’re burying me and you’re being considered stupid. Above all, you must be wary.”

“You opened Pandora’s box”, comments the youngest Delon in his Instagram post, as a response to his sister’s interview on TF1 a few hours earlier. Tuesday January 9, he denounced on the microphone of BFMTV “methods of scoundrels, mafiosi” of his sister Anouchka, who according to him tried to intimidate him. “I filed a complaint against my sister for abuse of weakness and countless other things. It’s very serious what’s happening.”