Man who claimed to be son of Alain Delon dies at 60; actor never recognized him

Christian Aaron Boulogne, known as Ari Boulogne, was found dead in his Paris apartment, aged 60, this Saturday (20). He was the son of model and singer Nico, of the American rock band Velvet Underground, and claimed that his father was French actor Alain Delon.

According to information from the newspaper Le Parisien, a 58-year-old woman is in police custody for failing to help a person in danger. The police station says it was around 4 am when authorities were called by the woman, who claimed to have found the photographer’s body in an advanced state of decomposition after returning from a trip.

She claims to be a childhood friend and companion of Ari, who suffered from health problems and was a hemiplegic (a neurologically altered condition that paralyzes one side of the body). His body was taken to the Legal Medical Institute in Paris to undergo an autopsy.

The photographer claimed for decades that his father was Alain Delon, a French actor. His mother has already said that the two had a passing affair that resulted in the pregnancy, but the filmmaker never acknowledged him. He was raised by Alain’s mother, Edith Boulogne, who adopted him along with her husband.

In 2019, Ari filed an application for parental recognition before the Orléans court in France. However, in August 2020, the French Justice stated that it was “territorially incompetent” to analyze the case because the actor lived in Switzerland, his home since 1984.

Ari released an autobiography in 2001 entitled “Love Never Forgets” where he claims that, when he was a teenager, he filed a lawsuit to find out his paternity, but that the actor’s half-sister convinced him to give up the idea.

In the book, he recalled the quick visits he received from his mother, who achieved fame with the rock band. Her troubled life, who was born in Germany, and her death in 1988, led Ari to plunge into a depressive spiral aggravated by drug abuse, which led him to undergo psychiatric treatment.