The daughter of Ari Boulogne, whose paternity Alain Delon never acknowledged, asked the Geneva courts to appoint experts to take Alain Delon’s DNA, her lawyer said Friday.
“I confirm having submitted the request for super-provisional measures,” Saskia Ditisheim told AFP, confirming information published in the Tribune de Genève.
A super-provisional measure is a judicial measure under Swiss law that can be ordered if the urgency of the situation requires it, for example if evidence is in danger or is at risk of disappearing.
It is about establishing “expertise to take Alain Delon’s DNA” to be able to determine if it is his “grandfather”, he added, indicating that Ari Boulogne’s daughter was also represented by her French lawyer, Me. Ricardo Sedillot.
The lawyer for the 16-year-old girl explained that the request had been submitted to the Civil Court of First Instance of Geneva because, according to the Geneva population registry, that is where Alain Delon “resides.” Me Ditisheim believes that the court should rule “quickly” in the coming days, after having determined whether she has jurisdiction or not before answering on the merits.
First attempt with French justice
In September 2021, the French justice confirmed on appeal that it was “territorially incompetent” to judge a request for recognition of paternity addressed by Ari Boulogne to the actor Alain Delon, due to his place of residence, located in Switzerland. Born in August 1962, Ari Boulogne, whose real name is Christian Boulogne, was found dead in May 2023, at the age of 60.
Alain Delon has never acknowledged the paternity of Ari Boulogne, son of German Velvet Underground singer Nico with whom she had a brief romance in the 1960s. However, as a child, Ari was raised by Alain Delon’s own mother, Edith Boulogne. , whose name he bears.
The two men crossed paths on several occasions, such as in 1986 when the actor told him “You don’t have my eyes, you don’t have my hair, you are not my son, you will never be my son.” Ari reported in Libération. After falling into drugs, the photographer had several stays in psychiatric hospitals and detoxification treatments.
Alain Delon, 88, who suffered a stroke in 2019, also suffers from lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system).
Source: BFM TV
