An expanded biography of Alain Delon appears this Thursday, November 14, making intimate revelations about the actor, who tried to ban the publication of the first version more than 25 years ago.
Died on August 18, Alain Delon is back on the media scene. A biography of the actor comes out this Thursday the 14th November 2024 in bookstores. Titled The last Delon mysteriesthese 680 pages represent the expanded version of the first unauthorized biography, written by Bernard Violet, published in 2000 under the title The Delon Mysteries.
This first version, which had sold 100,000 copies, had almost been banned by Alain Delon himself, who had taken legal action to prevent its publication. However, the work was published, but Bernard Violet assures Le Parisien that he had to “skip a lot of information” at the time, as his lawyer would have advised him, “either because it was linked to the double life of the Samurai , or because they did not contain enough tangible evidence.”
Today, this new version makes revelations about the private life of the late French cinema giant. Among the subjects discussed, the French media cites his relationship with his mother, the Markovic affair, the actor's supposed relationships with mafiosi or criminals, but above all on his intimate and sexual life, the opposite of media image that he allowed to shine through.
In this interview with Le Parisien, Bernard Violet assures that “consistent testimonies make me think that Alain Delon was bisexual”, “at least during the first 30 years of his life” and would have had relationships with men, contrary to this which showed publicly from his private life (he only appeared with women, like Romy Schneider or Mireille Darc for example). Le Parisien, however, takes care to clarify after reading the work that no man has explicitly revealed having had a relationship with the actor.
However, the actor had made extremely controversial remarks about homosexuality, which he described as “unnatural” on the set of C à vous in 2013. Bernard Violet assures for his part that Alain Delon had very more peaceful about relationships between men in The new observer on March 10, 1969, assuring “if I wanted to have adventures with men, what would I be guilty of? In love, anything is allowed.” The last Delon mysteries appear this Thursday by Robert Laffont editions.
