Anthony Delon dismisses rumors of his father's bisexuality in his young acting years

Anthony Delon has been very clear about his feelings regarding certain rumors circulating about his father. Coming back for Le Figaro At Night on the legacy of the Cheetah after his death at the age of 88 on August 18, the eldest of the Delon clan was blunt about certain comments by Bernard Violet in his work The last Delon mysteries – All his secrets revealedreleased by Robert Laffont on November 14.

The journalist and biographer wrote that the Samurai had been bisexual for his “first thirty years”. Information that he recently supported with the Parisianaffirming that “testimonies agree and make me think that Alain Delon was bisexual […] They overlap and emanate from credible personalities.” But for Anthony Delon, this is not the case. “I’m not going to echo that. To respond would be a service to the person who wrote it. Why would I give him this gift? “, he said to Le Figaro.

“I want to keep the best”

The older brother of Anouchka and Alain-Fabien Delon, both born from the late actor's relationship with Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen, prefers to cherish the memory of his illustrious father and rise above any post speculation. -mortem. “He’s gone, we have to leave him alone now, we have to stop with that and with everything else,” he said. “It is the memory of the dead that we honor, it is not that of the living. We must leave him in peace. He made history. I want to keep the best, the positive.”

Especially since the 60-year-old actor and writer is still strongly affected by the departure of his father. A mourning that he could not contain on the stage of the Lyon Lumière Festival last month, during a tribute to Alain Delon. Between two sobs, Anthony Delon honored for the first time in person the memory of his father since his death. For the Figarothe father of Lou and Liv, born from his romance with Sophie Clerico, reflected on grief, which he already experienced in 2021 after the death of his mother Nathalie Delon from cancer: “Each loss is a new beginning. It's very difficult to lose someone. It’s like a breakup, it’s difficult, and a new life starts again afterwards.”