Alain Delon announced Tuesday through his lawyer that he would not appeal his placement under reinforced guardianship, a measure decided last week by a judge in Montargis (Loiret). “Alain Delon will not appeal the decision rendered following the hearing on April 4, 2024 at the Montargis judicial court. He trusts the agent appointed by the court,” explains Me Laurence Bedossa, who represents the 88-year-old actor, in a press release.
The sacred monster of cinema, who suffered a stroke in 2019 and also suffers from lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system), had been placed under judicial protection since January with the designation of a legal representative “for his medical monitoring”. This measure was converted on Thursday into “reinforced guardianship”, which implies in particular that he can no longer decide alone on the management of his property and his finances.
Me Frank Berton, the lawyer for the actor’s daughter Anouchka Delon, had described this reinforced curatorship as a “heavy measure” or even “excessive”, specifying that Alain Delon’s curator would be the “external” person who was already ensuring the role of legal representative. “It’s something that must be difficult for him to live with” because “he hasn’t lost his mind,” said Mr. Berton. According to him, Alain Delon “watches the news, he expresses himself. There was an expert opinion in January which said that there were certainly some alterations in his discernment but no abolition of his discernment,” Anouchka Delon’s lawyer underlined.
Since the beginning of January, the star’s three children have been waging a fratricidal war, through the media and justice, each swearing to want to protect the cinema legend in declining health. His sons, Anthony, 59, and Alain-Fabien, 29, believe that Alain Delon is being manipulated by Anouchka, 33, who hid his state of health from them and would like to bring him back to Switzerland.
According to her brothers, the thirty-year-old would like to repatriate her father to the Swiss country, of which he acquired nationality and where he resided regularly, to avoid paying significant inheritance taxes upon the death of their father. The young woman, for her part, sued her two brothers for invasion of privacy after the broadcast of the recording of a conversation between her and her father. The trial is scheduled to take place in April 2025 in Paris.