Alain Delon has been placed under judicial protection, which prevents him from carrying out certain most important acts. These have been entrusted to a third party agent. Explanations.
Soon a final point in the Alain Delon affair? According to information from BFM TV shared this Monday, January 29, the 88-year-old actor was placed under “judicial protection” by a protection litigation judge. However, this is not a matter of being placed under guardianship, which would leave the actor less freedom to act.
Concretely, the French cinema giant can always carry out several acts alone (expenses and decisions of daily life for example), with the exception of the most important ones which must be entrusted to an agent. For example, as part of this placement under judicial protection, Alain Delon cannot carry out sales of real estate.
Furthermore, the agent can also assist the actor in medical monitoring or in the choice of a doctor. Still according to information from BFM TV, Alain Delon’s representative was appointed by the courts without us knowing who it is. Maître Frank Berton, Anouchka Delon’s lawyer, told BFM TV that “there is reason to welcome this decision”.
Contested medical expertise
Medical assessments were requested in January 2024 by the Montargis public prosecutor’s office to assess the state of health of Alain Delon after requests for judicial protection made by his son Anthony Delon and the actor’s lawyers. An expert opinion, in the presence of the actor, took place on January 13, 2024. In a press release sent by Me Christophe Ayela, Alain Delon’s ex-lawyer, two days later, she confirmed that “his discernment is in no way abolished, contrary to the slanderous accusations of which he has been the subject in the media since January 4, 2024.” The lawyer has since been dismissed.
This medical expertise of Alain Delon had previously been contested by the lawyer of Anthony Delon and Le Guépard. Lawyer Laurence Bedossa accused in a letter that the medical expertise had taken place in the presence of Anouchka Delon who would have “responded[u] in place of the questions asked to Mr. Alain Delon.”
An abolition of his discernment?
A first legal expertise carried out in the context of the Hiromi Rollin affair (since closed), in October 2023, already lifted the veil on the state of health of Alain Delon. Its content, established after analysis of the actor’s medical file and not in his presence, was revealed on January 24, 2024 by The Parisian : this document describes the degradation of the actor’s cognitive abilities since 2019, concluding in an abolition of the Cheetah’s discernment.
In detail, this medical expertise describes Alain Delon as “carrying significant comorbidities, active chronic pathologies and disabling acute disorders” and “vulnerable both physically and psychologically”. The actor, one of the last giants of French cinema, would suffer from “cognitive disorders of a vascular nature worsening with successive strokes and complemented by cognitive disorders of a degenerative nature”.
The doctor who wrote this expert report notes an ultimate deterioration in Alain Delon’s health that began in July 2023, in the midst of the Hiromi Rollin affair. A lymphoma, which he would have been diagnosed with a few years earlier, spreads and impairs his cognitive and motor skills. Since August, he has been in “almost constant bed rest” and needs help with all the tasks of daily life.
Alain Delon would have stopped his treatments
For his part, Alain Delon’s former lawyer, Me Christophe Ayela, revealed that he had sent a report to the courts for “endangering” the actor. He assured that Alain Delon would have stopped his treatments since the end of August at the request of Anthony and Alain-Fabien Delon, the actor’s sons. He claimed that they would put him at risk of “premature death” by stopping his care and medical monitoring.
Alain Delon’s ex-lawyer wanted, in fact, the appointment of a legal representative in order to protect the actor from his sons’ decision, a decision that they would have taken, according to Anouchka Delon, against his advice but also that of their father. Their sister, Anouchka, says she wants to take their father to Switzerland so that he can undergo medical treatment. His brothers, on the contrary, accuse him of wanting to do it for tax reasons, ensuring that their father wants to die in his residence in Douchy.
“A lamentable state”, a “danger of death”?
Whether it’s his children or his former partner (or lady-in-waiting according to his family) Hiromi Rollin, everyone makes their alarming comment on the health of Alain Delon. It all started on January 4 with the publication, in Paris-Match, of an interview with Anthony Delon who accused his sister of not having informed him of their father’s “cognitive deterioration”.
For Hiromi Rollin who confided in RTL, the 88-year-old actor is “in mortal danger” if he stops his treatments. She assures that the actor was in good health before she left Douchy last July: “It’s been four months without treatment, six months without medical check-up. Alain’s life is in danger. I have not not afraid to say that he is in mortal danger.”
Alain Delon’s youngest child, Alain-Fabien, already spoke of “a lamentable state” of the actor during an interview with BFMTV on January 10, 2024, before adding in a comment published on Instagram revealing a recording of his sister that their father is “very weakened”, “very anxious”, he “no longer has a voice and speaks with great difficulty” , he “is not always coherent”, he “does not know when it is morning or evening”.
A legal battle between the Delon children
Alain Delon’s state of health crystallizes the quarrels between his three children. On January 4, the eldest, Anthony Delon, revealed to Paris-Match that he had filed a complaint against his sister Anouchka. In return, she filed a complaint against her brother for defamation, slanderous denunciation, threats and harassment. Alain-Fabien Delon filed a complaint against his sister for “abuse of weakness to the detriment of their father”.