The lifeless body of Ari Boulogne was found this night from May 19 to 20 at his homein the 15th arrondissement of Paris, unveiled The Parisian this Saturday. The 60-year-old photographer was best known for being the son Nico, the Velvet Underground singer, would have had with Alain Delon. What the star actor of French cinema has always denied. Following this macabre discovery, a woman, who would be the companion of Ari Boulogne according to The Parisianwas placed in police custody for failing to assist a person in danger, in order to“clarify the circumstances in which the death of the victim, who was hemiplegic, may have occurred”, specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office, quoted by the newspaper.
Raised by Alain Delon’s mother
Christian Aaron Päffgen, nicknamed Ari, was born on August 11, 1962 in Paris, two years before Anthony Delon. According to the own words of his mother, Christa Päffgen, known by his stage name Nico, the father of the child is none other than Alain Delon, with whom she had an affair. But the latter has never recognized this and has always opposed any move in this direction. Nico, a drug addict, unable to take care of her son, she sends a letter from New York to Edith Boulogne, Alain Delon’s mother, to inform her of the existence of the child. Edith Boulogne will pick up the child in the United States and raise him in France, against the advice of Alain Delon. Ari grew up in Bourg-la-Reine, brought up by the woman who considered him her grandson. He made a few appearances in films made by director Philippe Garrel, who was then Nico’s companion. In 1977, he was adopted by Paul Boulogne, husband of Alain Delon’s mother. This is how he will officially become Ari Boulogne.
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Ari Boulogne: a complicated life, between a drug addict mother and Alain Delon who never recognized him
Ari Boulogne had long run-ins with drugsa way for him to be in contact with his drug addict mother, as he confessed in his autobiography Love never forgets and in the columns of the JDD, in April 2018: “From when I was 16 until his death in 1988, we shared the same drug, the same syringe. It was a way of being together.” He will manage to drop out thanks to a rehab in 1993. Regarding his relationship with Alain Delon, he told a sad anecdote to Liberation in 1986: “Alain Delon, one hand on the steering wheel, the other patting me on the shoulder, gives me this speech: ‘You are my friend, you are my friend. But I’ll tell you something, you don’t have my eyes, you don’t have my hair. You are not my son, you will never be my son. I only slept with your mother once.'”
Ari Boulogne had two children
Ari Boulogne had filed in September 2019 a request for recognition of paternity before the court of Orleans, because Alain Delon had a residence in the region. But the court said “the territorially incompetent French jurisdiction” because Alain Delon had provided proof that his home is in Switzerland. Ari Boulogne had two childrena son, Charles, born in 1999, and a daughter, Blanche, born in 2006.
