Ari Boulogne had filed an application for recognition of paternity towards Alain Delon. This request was rejected on appeal by the Orléans court which considers itself “territorially incompetent” to judge this case.
For several years, Ari Boulogne has requested recognition of paternity addressed to Alain Delon. The French photographer had made a first judicial step which had been rejected in 2001. He therefore appealed to the court of Orleans (Center-Val de Loire) where the actor has a residence.
Aged 58, Ari Boulogne is the son of German singer Nico with whom Alain Delon had a brief affair in the 1960s. The French artist has never acknowledged paternity even though Ari Boulogne was raised by his mother Edith Boulogne who considers him as her grandson.
In its decision rendered on August 27, 2020, the Orléans Court of Appeal affirmed that “the French jurisdiction is territorially incompetent” for the request for recognition in paternity of Ari Boulogne. The judicial court justified this decision in a judgment published Wednesday, September 29. “Mr. Alain Delon reports proof that his domicile is in Switzerland”, relayed AFP who had access to the document. The actor “has a Swiss passport”, “pays taxes on Swiss territory”, “vote in Switzerland” and “gets treatment in Switzerland”.
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Ari Boulogne paternity claim: “a case now closed in France”
According to the Orléans Court of Appeal, this information proves that Alain Delon’s domicile is in Switzerland and not in France and that his residence in the Center-Val de Loire region “has been for many years only a secondary residence and not its main establishment“. When rendering its decision, the court underlined “bad faith” callers when “they claim that this residence constitutes an apparent domicile”. “It is obviously a question of obtaining the application of the German law more favorable to the applicants, so that the aim pursued (…) is to circumvent abusively the application of the French law on the territorial competence”, said the judges.
“In France there is a principle of international law, we apply the mother’s right [ndlr la chanteuse allermande Nico]. However, in German law the limitation period does not exist for this type of legal action “ had specified Maître Christophe Ayela, lawyer of Alain Delon, who then added that“in Switzerland, we apply the law of the plaintiff. But if we apply French law [ndlr pour Ari Boulogne], it is prescribed “. On Wednesday, September 29, Me Christophe Ayela, met “congratulated” of the “wise decision rendered by the Orléans Court of Appeal” indicating that it is “now a case closed in France.”
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