Son of Alain Delon, Ari Boulogne, found dead in Parisian apartment: investigation underway.

An investigation is underway after the discovery this Saturday, May 20, of the lifeless body in his Parisian apartment of Ari Boulogne, who claimed to be the son of actor Alain Delon, and a person is in police custody for failure to assist anyone. in danger, said the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the Parisian. The daily affirms that the person in police custody “would be his companion”.

The investigation aims in particular to “clarify the circumstances in which the death of the victim, who was hemiplegic, may have occurred”, according to the prosecution. The body was found at the home of the 60-year-old man in the 15th arrondissement.

Ari Boulogne, born in the summer of 1962, is the son of the German top model, singer and actress Nico, icon of the Velvet Underground group, and claimed to be the son of Alain Delon, which the latter had always denied. Alain Delon had a brief affair with Ari’s mother, nicknamed “the Garbo of punk”, supermodel, singer, actress and soon to be muse of the Velvet Underground. As a child, Ari had however been raised by Alain Delon’s own mother, Edith Boulogne, whose name he bears and who officially adopted him with her husband.

chaotic existence

Ari recounted his chaotic life, dominated by an absence, that of the father, in a book published in 2001, love never forgets. Nico, his mother, got involved in the cinema of Andy Warhol or Philippe Garrel, making her son appear in several films. Singer on the first album of the American rock group The Velvet Underground released in 1967, she then led a solo career for twenty years.

As a teenager, Ari joins her on her tours and dives with her into drugs and a “artistic wonderland” which takes them to many countries. After Nico’s death in 1988, Ari Boulogne had made several stays in a psychiatric hospital and rehab. He was the father of a son.

In recent years, Ari Boulogne had made a request for recognition of paternity from the French courts, which had dismissed him on appeal in September 2021 because of the place of residence of Alain Delon, located in Switzerland. “The current cassation procedure will stop and the file will be closed. Alain Delon had consistently challenged this paternity”said the lawyer for the movie star, Me Christophe Ayela.