Died at the age of 88 on Sunday August 18, 2024. Alain Delon does not seem to have finished revealing all his secrets. In any case, this is what biographer Bernard Violet seems to think. Already author of Delon Mysteries in 2000, the writer is now releasing a new work, called The Last Delon Mysteriespublished by Robert Laffont. In it, he reveals, with supporting testimonies, that the sacred monster of French cinema was in fact bisexual.
“These testimonies agree and make me think that Alain Delon was bisexual. At least during the first 30 years of his life. They overlap and come from credible personalities. Several minutes of the Marković affair also mention it. Sometimes a little crude. Romy Schneider herself had confided it to one of her best friends“, first indicated Bernard Violet in an interview given to
Parisian.
Alain Delon: “If I wanted to have adventures with men. What would I be guilty of? In love, anything goes”
“Which is also striking in the story of Alain Delon's beginnings. It's the omnipresence of gays, in the cinema or in the press. We can cite his agent Georges Beaume and most of the journalists he frequented. Free character and crazy ambition. The actor lived his bisexuality probably out of taste and also with a hint of pushiness. I think that the rebel that he was explored everything in terms of sexuality. With women. With men. Or in households of three“, then added the biographer.
When asked about the comedian saying in 2013 that homosexuality was “unnatural“.Bernard Violet didn’t give up.”This statement was that of an old reactionary who denied his youth. During which he was much more tolerant. In 1969, in Le Nouvel Observateur, when Olivier Todd questioned him about the homosexual inclinations that some attributed to him. Alain Delon replied: 'If I wanted to have adventures with men. What would I be guilty of? In love, everything is permitted'“, he clarified.
Bernard Violet: “Even today, the bisexuality or homosexuality of a star is, for some, a taboo subject”
“Delon, like Belmondo, was the very symbol of masculinity. From the diktat of virility. No question of deviating from it. With hindsight, I even think that if Alain Delon wanted to have my biography banned in 1998. It was because he had read my synopsis, which evoked his relationships, over several years, with Daniel Guérin, libertarian writer and homosexual activist“, finally concluded Bernard Violet.
