A preliminary investigation was opened on Thursday after the complaints filed the day before by the children of actor Alain Delon against Hiromi Rollin, whom the actor presented himself as his companion, in particular for acts of moral harassment, announced the parquet floor of Montargis (Loiret). “After studying these complaints, the Montargis public prosecutor’s office decided to open a preliminary investigation entrusted jointly to the Orléans Research Section and the Montargis Research Brigade,” said the public prosecutor in a press release. de Montargis, Jean-Cedric Gaux.

On Wednesday, the prosecution was “recipient of two complaints from the Delon family” against a woman designated as the “company woman” of the sacred monster of cinema, 87 years old, he added. The first complaint, dated Tuesday and submitted by the council of Alain Delon’s three children, targets facts of “moral harassment, misappropriation of correspondence and animal abuse”, according to the magistrate. The children denounce the “disparaging and aggressive attitude” of Hiromi Rollin against Alain Delon and his children, as well as “his actions tending to capture for his benefit the letters and telephone messages of this one and the blows to Alain Delon’s dog”. “By declaration signed and attached to the complaint, it was indicated that Alain Delon associated himself with it”, according to the press release.

A second complaint was filed Monday by the eldest son, Anthony Delon, in a Paris police station, also targeting Hiromi Rollin for acts of “moral harassment, violence against vulnerable people, abuse of weakness and act of cruelty towards an animal”. The Delon children’s lawyer, Christophe Ayela, said in a statement on Wednesday that “since the cardiovascular accident of Mr. Alain Delon which occurred in 2019”, this woman “who moved in with him, shows herself more and more aggressive, denigrating and abusive towards him and his children”.

She “never ceases to isolate Alain Delon from his relatives, his friends, and his family, using maneuvers and threats”, according to the council. In a statement released Wednesday, Anthony Delon believes that the situation in two years has taken “such proportions” that his father himself asked Hiromi Rollin in writing that she leave her residence in Douchy.

Icon of the 7th art, with films such as Le Guépard, La Piscine and Le Samouraï, Alain Delon has become extremely rare in the cinema since the end of the 1990s. He returned to taste the lights of the red carpet at Cannes in 2019 to receive a Honorary Palme d’Or.