According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, an investigation has been opened and a person placed in police custody for failure to assist a person in danger.
He had always claimed to be the son of Alain Delon and the German singer Nico, which the French actor has always denied. Ari Boulogne, whose real name is Christian Boulogne, was found dead at his Parisian home, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday May 20, confirming information from the Parisian. According to this source, a person is in custody for failure to assist a person in danger. An investigation has been opened to“clarify the circumstances in which the death of the victim, who was hemiplegic, may have occurred”according to the prosecution.
Ari Boulogne, who was 60 years old, had filed a request for recognition of paternity before the court of Orleans, but the French justice had declared itself incompetent because of the place of residence of the star, in Switzerland. “The current procedure will stop and the file will be closed. Alain Delon had constantly challenged this paternity”, The actor’s lawyer, Christophe Ayela, told AFP.
Raised and adopted by Alain Delon’s mother
Alain Delon had a brief affair with Ari’s mother, supermodel, singer and actress Nico. As a child, Ari Boulogne was raised by Alain Delon’s own mother, Edith Boulogne, whose name he bears and who officially adopted him with her husband. In turn father of a son, he had recounted his chaotic life, dominated by an absence, that of the father, in a book published in 2001, love never forgets.
Nico, who invested in the cinema of Andy Warhol or Philippe Garrel, had made his son appear in several films. Singer on the first album of the American rock group The Velvet Underground, released in 1967, the one who was nicknamed “the Garbo of punk” then pursued a solo career for twenty years, before dying in 1988.