Photographer Ari Boulogne, who claimed to be the son of Alain Delon, has been found dead

Photographer Ari Boulogne, who claimed to be the son of French actor Alain Delon, who has always denied his paternity, was found dead this Saturday at his home in Paris, a suspicious fact which led to his arrest and execution. opening of a judicial investigation.

The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the death and arrest of Boulogne who, according to the newspaper Le Parisien, which had revealed the information, could be his partner, a 58-year-old woman, accused of not having provided assistance.

The objective of the investigation is to clarify the circumstances of the death of this hemiplegic man, born in 1962 and son of the German model and singer Nico, who had a brief relationship with Alain Delon in the early 1960s.

At dawn it was the same woman, now arrested, who went to the apartment and found the photographer’s body in an advanced state of decomposition.

According to Le Parisien, the woman said she found the body herself when she returned from a trip accompanied by her son.

Ari Boulogne, who grew up with the mother of Alain Delon, from whom he took his surname, has been asking the French justice for years to recognize him as the actor’s son, but so far without success.

In 2019 he applied for paternity recognition to the Judicial Court of Orleans because that city is the capital of the Loiret department where the French film giant is based.

However, the following year the court had indicated that the French jurisdictions lacked territorial jurisdiction since Alain Delon has resided in Switzerland since 1984.

Ari Boulogne returned as a teenager to his mother, who introduced him to his artistic activity, but also to the world of drugs. Since his death in 1988, he has been repeatedly interned in psychiatric hospitals and subjected to various detox treatments.

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