On August 18, 2024, Alain Delon died at his property in Douchy, at the age of 88. Three months after his disappearance, the actor is the subject of a new biography, published by Bernard Violet on November 14, 2024, by Robert Laffont. In “Les Derniers Mystères Delon – All his secrets revealed”, the biographer intends to tell everything he was able to discover about the Samurai.
Already author of a first version of this work, entitled “Les Mystères Delon”, and which Alain Delon himself had wanted to have banned in 1998, Bernard Violet evokes “tangible proofs” according to which the actor lived “a double life”. Particularly regarding his sexuality.
100 interviews to corroborate his information
The journalist and writer, aged 75, spoke in the columns of Le Parisien about this biography unlike any other. “In “The Last Delon Mysteries”, I take up certain previously unpublished passages from my old interviews, which witnesses had asked me to keep secret until the death of the star. This book was also enriched with new testimonies,” explains -he.
According to him, Alain Delon's desire to have his first work about him banned helped him a lot: “It attracted to me many actors or other personalities who had worked with Delon. Which shows that if the star was recognized, the man was not necessarily loved.”
He claims that Alain Delon was bisexual
Among the many revelations of this new biography, Bernard Violet allows himself to reveal, posthumously, that Alain Delon was bisexual. And this thanks to several testimonies, even if he never received the slightest confidence from a man who would have slept with the emblematic actor. “These testimonies agree and make me think that Delon was bisexual, at least during the first thirty years of his life. They overlap and come from credible personalities,” he claims.
“Several reports from the Marković affair also mention it, sometimes in a somewhat crude manner. Romy Schneider herself had confided it to one of her best friends.”
And to specify: “What is also striking in the story of Alain Delon's beginnings is 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.”
According to the biographer: “A free character with crazy ambition, the actor lived his bisexuality probably out of taste and also with a hint of arrivism. I think that the rebellious person that he was explored everything in terms of sexuality , with women, with men or in threesomes.”
Alain Delon has never appeared with a man
The idea of Alain Delon's bisexuality, however, seems preposterous, as the latter had shown himself to be opposed to homosexuality, going so far as to assert in 2013, on the set of “C à vous” that it was a question of of an “unnatural practice”. He added: “I don't really care if they marry each other. What I don't want is for them to adopt.” For the author: “This statement was that of an old reactionary who denied his youth, during which he was much more tolerant.” These statements made by Alain Delon on the set of “C à vous” had also caused him to be accused of homophobia.
“Delon, like Belmondo, was the very symbol of masculinity, of the diktat of virility. There is no question of deviating from it. Looking back, 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 relationship, over several years, with Daniel Guérin, libertarian writer and homosexual activist”, he concludes with certainty.
