When there was so little love… After having initiated proceedings in France last September to request the annulment of his father’s last will, Alain Fabien, the youngest son of Alain Delon, has just taken legal action in Switzerland to obtain the suspension of its execution on the grounds of the “inheritance unworthiness” of his sister Anouchka.
Two wills were initialed by the actor, who died in August 2024 at the age of 88. The first, in 2005, distributed his assets – 25 million after taxes, indicated Alain Fabien – between his three children: 50% for his daughter Anouchka, 25% for his eldest son Anthony and 25% for Alain Fabien, a distribution which suits the last son of the “Samurai”, who sees it as the real expression “of his last wishes”.
A “vulnerable and distressed” father
But in 2022, by a new testamentary deed, Anouchka is designated the sole heir of the moral rights linked to the Delon name, then, three months later, receives 51% of the shares in the company which operates her father’s surname. A situation that the two boys discovered when their father died and against which, each with their own weapons and temperament, they have been fighting ever since. For the sake of honor, Alain Fabien seems to say: “If it was a question of money, I would already have my money,” he said this Thursday on RTL.
The youngest of the siblings, 31 years old, dark gray suit, light gray shirt, spoke on the radio about the state of his father, “vulnerable and in a state of weakness” since his stroke and a brain hemorrhage in 2019.
His father “has deteriorated greatly over the last three years.” He will learn it post-mortem, assures Alain Fabien, but from 2019, his father “failed all the cognitive tests, even a basic test like that of the clock”, to the point that “administrative and social surveillance” had been “recommended”. The patriarch certainly has “moments of lucidity” but sometimes “he wanders completely”. A sad sign of his changes: Alain Delon, with whom he had become very close, was “oddly nice”, “sweet and kind”, an attitude which did not correspond to his “very tough” character.
“They took him to a notary”
Despite this different state, or perhaps because of it, “a good number of actions were taken by my sister which I find tendentious”, criticizes the little brother, and in particular the signing of the second will.
Alain Fabien says he discovered after August 2024 that in November 2022, his father was “hospitalized in Switzerland”, where his sister lives and where the company ADID, Alain Delon International Distribution, is legally based. “They took him out of this clinic, the Genolier clinic, taken to a notary, to sign very important documents and then brought back to the clinic.” A “dubious” sequence to inflict on this man who “was not in a position to sign anything”.
“Certain ill-intentioned people were able to take advantage of my father’s state of weakness for financial purposes,” he denounces, pointing to his three executors, Christophe Ayela, Delon’s lawyer, Dorine Hayek, his wealth manager, and Pierre Philippe Rigaud, his notary in Geneva. Alain Fabien did not name them on RTL but he denounces “crooked, ill-intentioned people, who don’t care about me” and who are, according to him, “ready to sell Douchy”, the estate in Loiret where Delon is buried.
To those who regret that Alain Fabien, by revealing the twilight of recent years, tarnishes the image of the interpreter of “Plein Soleil” or of “Rocco and his brothers”, the thirty-year-old and young father simply responds: “My father did not wait for me to sully his own name, when he was going to criticize the sexual positions of everyone and when he rubbed shoulders with people from the extreme right”.