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There were rumors that he was a secret bisexual. “And what would be wrong with that? If I like it, I’ll do it. If you love your goat, love it,” replied Alain Delon (88) to a question from a British BBC reporter in 1969. Today the French film legend has completely different worries. Four years ago, the actor suffered a brain hemorrhage and his health has been going downhill ever since. He hardly speaks and is very tired. Not surprisingly, he began researching euthanasia last year.
At the same time, Delon’s three offspring fight over who should take care of their father. The sons Anthony Delon (59) and Alain-Fabien Delon (29) accuse the 30-year-old daughter Anouchka Delonová of wanting to transfer her father to Switzerland in order to pay less inheritance tax after his death. She replies that she was just looking for better medical care for him. And in the background, the actor’s assistant Hiromi Rollinová, a Japanese artist with whom he has lived since 2006 at his estate in Douchy, has not yet said the last word.
“She systematically monitors his phone calls and private messages. He answers for him, acts on his behalf and receives his mail. He prevents the children from visiting him regularly, as they always do. He behaves in an authoritarian manner. She even went so far as to mistreat his dog in an unacceptable way,” complained Christophe Aleyová, the actor’s children’s lawyer, last year. Due to all these disputes, last week, the eldest son Anthony, together with his father, asked the court to protect the actor. In this context, the French public prosecutor’s office announced that it had appointed an authorized doctor to assess Delon’s condition.
Triplex, paintings, wines and watches
None of the potential heirs wants their share to be reduced, for example by an “inappropriately” written will. In this context, let’s try to imagine at least approximately Delon’s respectable possessions. First up is a 780 square meter apartment at a prestigious Parisian address. It is a so-called triplex that extends from the seventh to the ninth floor of the Art Deco-style house. The definition states that such an apartment consists of three separate residential units connected into a single unit, with the individual units sharing one or two common walls. Each triplex unit has its own kitchen, bathroom, living room and separate entrance door. In 2012, Delon offered an apartment with a view of the Eiffel Tower for a whopping 42 million euros (the equivalent of one billion and 133 million crowns) through the Sotheby’s auction house.
A silver lining? The already mentioned estate in Douchy, with an area of 120 hectares, which he arranged with his then partner Mireille Darcová (she died six years ago). “It is the house of an art lover who sits among paintings and objects of which he is very proud,” explained Delon in 1987. The focus of the collection was an extensive collection of casts by the Italian Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916). Sculptor of animals. Last year the actor sold it at the Bonhams auction house for eight million euros. Back in 2007, his collection of forty paintings from the 1950s found a new owner, who brought him less than nine million euros. He has been interested in the abstract painting of the so-called second Paris school and the CoBrA movement since the 1980s, when, in his words, he began “to hang it on the wall and learn to live with it.”
His collection of archival wines and wristwatches was also for sale (a hundred pieces for 600,000 euros, bought mainly by interested parties from China, where they are very popular). How could he amass such a large fortune? As early as 1963, before filming of the thriller Melodie Underground began, he was surprised when he did not take a fixed fee, but rather part of the distribution rights. “Thanks to that, he earned ten times more than me,” marveled colleague Jean Gabin. And not only that: in 1968 he founded his own agency, Adel Productions, and a significant part of the profits from the sales of almost three dozen films produced later went into his pocket. In total, he appeared in 106 films, worked on 10 screenplays and directed four of them himself.
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