According to a source close to the investigation relayed by AFP, the personal home in Suresnes of Hiromi Rolin, Alain Delon’s “lady-in-waiting” as presented by the actor’s children, was searched on Wednesday morning in as part of a preliminary investigation opened two weeks ago. The search is carried out by gendarmes from the research section of Orleans, with the assistance of the research brigade of Montargis (Loiret). On Wednesday, with BFM, Christophe Ayela, lawyer for the Delon children, announced that a new complaint was to be filed. “The situation is actually worse than feared. I am about to file a new complaint for new and potentially very serious facts discovered since the departure of Madame Rollin, ”he said. According to BFM, withdrawals of tens of thousands of euros have been recorded on the account of the 87-year-old actor.
The actor’s three children, Anthony, Alain-Fabien and Anouchka Delon had filed a complaint against Hiromi Rollin for acts of “moral harassment, misappropriation of correspondence and animal abuse”. “After studying these complaints, the Montargis public prosecutor’s office decided to open a preliminary investigation entrusted jointly to the Orleans Research Section and the Montargis Research Brigade”, the public prosecutor announced on July 11. de Montargis, Jean-Cedric Gaux.
“Madame (Hiromi) Rollin will be heard in a simple hearing in the afternoon (Wednesday) in the Loiret”, indicated the source close to the investigation. Qualified as Alain Delon’s “lady companion” by the actor’s family, Hiromi Rollin was the subject of a first complaint on July 5 filed with the Montargis prosecutor’s office, in Loiret where the actor has a property in Douchy, by Anouchka, Alain-Fabien and Anthony Delon. A preliminary investigation was opened the next day.
The children denounce “the disparaging and aggressive attitude” of this woman against Alain Delon and his children, as well as “her actions tending to capture for her benefit the letters and telephone messages of this one and the blows brought to the dog of Alain Delon”, according to a press release from the public prosecutor of Montargis. “By declaration signed and attached to the complaint, it was indicated that Alain Delon associated himself with it”, according to the press release.
Anthony Delon also filed a second complaint against his father’s companion, in particular for “willful violence and sequestration of a vulnerable person, abuse of weakness and moral harassment”, he announced, referring to “facts established on a year and a half”. Hiromi Rollin, evicted on July 5 from the actor’s property, wrote to the Montargis prosecutor to dispute the charges against her and also filed a complaint on July 7 through her lawyer, who requested the opening of judicial information.
Icon of the 7th art, with films like The Cheetah, The Swimming Pool and The Samurai, 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 in Cannes in 2019 to receive a Honorary Palme d’Or.