The Delon family continues to be torn apart over the health of the patriarch, Alain Delon. Son Anthony requested guardianship of the famous actor, supported by his brother, Alain-Fabien. Alain Delon’s lawyer, Christophe Ayela, then responded that his client was still in possession of all his means, both mental and physical.
“I do not agree with his sons, who want to put him under guardianship. This seems unnecessary and vexatious to me,” said the 88-year-old actor’s lawyer in an interview with The Parisian published Monday. “I say he’s still very consistent. Alain Delon is certainly diminished, but he is still with us.”
Medical opinions
He refuted the argument according to which a doctor had noted an “abolition of discernment” in the star: “This doctor is not an expert. “He must have had a day when he was not in good shape and he probably turned him away.”
Another doctor mandated by the Montargis public prosecutor’s office, Alain Delon residing in Douchy (Loiret), must soon assess his state of health. A measure of judicial protection could then be decided. Me Ayela said she hoped that this doctor would recommend the resumption of medical treatment from which her client no longer benefits, and which Alain Delon’s daughter, Anouchka, insists on. “I find it inconceivable and shocking that his sons stopped his treatment without medical advice,” he stressed.
Investigational treatment stopped
Anthony Delon for his part affirmed, in an interview published Sunday by the Swiss daily The morning, that his father was not left without care. “He is being followed here in Douchy by an extremely competent doctor” and “we also have recognized specialists in France,” he said.
“One of the treatments administered to him, experimental, was stopped last summer, in agreement with my father, my brother and my sister. Because he could no longer stand this treatment, and this relentlessness actually threatened to kill him,” according to Anthony Delon.
The latter welcomed the upcoming medical expertise, which according to him “will make it possible to protect [son] father, to confirm what the five tests carried out since 2019 have revealed, and to endorse what the public prosecutor announced, that is to say that his discernment is abolished.