After writing a first biography in 1998, Bernard Violet published Thursday The Last Delon Mysteries which dwells on the intimate life of the deceased actor.
Bernard Violet affirms, he has no « Never » stopped investigating the life of Alain Delon. The 75-year-old journalist and writer published Thursday The Last Delon Mysteries published by Robert Laffont, a biography of the actor who died on August 18, 2024. 26 years ago, Bernard Violet published a first biography of the film star, in which he should have « skip a lot of information » on the advice of a lawyer.
In 1998, Alain Delon himself tried to ban the written biography Bernard Violet, « either because they were linked to the double life of the Samurai, or because they did not contain enough tangible evidence »he explains to Parisian . This time he puts « take advantage of these many years to explore avenues and concretize certain important elements ». The writer announces having carried out more than a hundred interviews. « I am resuming certain previously unpublished passages from my old interviews, which witnesses had asked me to keep secret until the star’s death. This book has also been enriched with new testimonies. Paradoxically, the commotion around the “forbidden biography” in 1998 attracted to me many actors or other personalities who had worked with Delon. »
Among his conclusions: « Delon was bisexual, at least for the first thirty years of his life, he explains. Romy Schneider she herself had confided it to one of her best friends. 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. A free character with wild ambition, the actor lived his bisexuality probably out of taste and also with a hint of careerism. » According to the biographer, “Given his time and status, the actor’s bisexuality was impossible to reveal ».
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« Based on numerous court documents, I believe Delon was the target of Polaroid sex blackmail, led by Markovic »says Bernard Violet again. In October 1968, Alain Delon found himself at the heart of an affair which almost cost him his career, after the assassination of his bodyguard, Stevan Markovic. The blackmail would carry « in a photo on which we would have seen the actor having an orgy with a young prostitute. But neither Delon nor his entourage were the type to give in to blackmail. Presumably, his friend the Middle Boss François Marcantoni was responsible for giving the Yugoslav a correction that went wrong »believes Bernard Violet.
“Alain Delon has always been fascinated by mobsters. »
Bernard Violet.
The writer details in this new biography the « close ties of friendship and business, with the cream of the French underworld” of the actor. « Alain Delon has always been fascinated by gangsters. I think he was inspired by their association for his roles in the cinema. » He cites among others: Jean-Dominique Fratoni, Joseph Khaïda, Tony Zampa and Jacky Imbert.
Concerning Alain Delon’s family affairs, Bernard Violet maintains the version according to which Ari Boulogne is the natural son of Alain Delon. « The proven facts are the nights that Alain Delon spent with Ari’s mother in New York in December 1961, nine months before Ari’s birth »he declares. As for the war between Anthony, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien Delon, he believes that in « favoring his only and favorite daughter, he missed his succession and broke the Delon clan into pieces ».
