This Saturday, May 20, Ari Boulogne died at the age of 60, announces The Parisian. Alain Delon’s illegitimate son didn’t grow up with a loving father figure. The successful comedian has had, more than once, virulent remarks towards the son of the singer Nico.
The Delon family is hit by tragedy. This Saturday, May 20, Ari Boulogne was found dead at home. His lifeless body was found “at his home on rue Cambronne in Paris (XVᵉ arrondissement) on the night of May 19 to 20”, report our colleagues. A woman, who would be his companion, has immediately taken into custody. For the moment, the causes of the death of the 60-year-old man have not been revealed. Christian Aaron Boulogne, his real name, was born on August 11, 1962 in Paris. He is the son of German singer Nico, died on July 18, 1988 in Ibiza at the age of 49. All his life, Ari Boulogne will have played elbows to be recognized by the father of Alain-Fabien Delon. The illegitimate son of the Samurai will also be raised by the mother of the latter, in Paris. This is the reason why the latter inherited the family name Boulogne, in homage to Edith Boulogne. She raised him with her partner, Paul Boulogne, and he was adopted in 1977.
The virulent remarks of Alain Delon to his son, Ari Boulogne
In 1986, Anouchka Delon’s father had very harsh words for his illegitimate son. “You’re my buddy, you, you’re my buddy. But I’ll tell you something, you don’t have my eyes, you don’t have my hair”, he would have said to his 24-year-old son at the time. And to add: “You are not my son, you will never be my son. I only slept with your mother once and that was it”he told Thierry Ardisson, in Everybody talks about it, in April 2001. A shock speech, which will leave deep sequelae to Ari Boulogne. Abandoned by all, Ari Boulogne had filed a request for recognition of paternity before the Orleans court.
Unfortunately, this request was rejected in August 2020. With his partner, Véronique, Ari Boulogne had two children: Charles born in 1999 and Blanche. In his autobiography, in 2001, Alain Delon’s son explained his intention to transmit the name of his biological mother to his children. According to the first elements of the investigation, Ari Boulogne suffered from health problems and had recently been taken by the emergency services to the European hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris.
