Alain Delon, the star of the golden age of French cinema, has died at the age of 88. The actor's health had deteriorated in recent years after suffering a stroke in 2019.
Alain Delon's funeral will be held on August 28. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron will also attend the ceremony, which will be attended by many names from the movie industry. Quentin Tarantino, Monica Bellucci, Tilda Swinton and Vincent Cassel are among the other names expected to attend the funeral.
“I don't want a public funeral, I'm not interested in that at all,” said Delon, who had previously made it clear that he did not want a national memorial service.
Delon said he wanted to be buried next to his dogs in Douchy in central France, in the house where he died:
“I want to be buried with my dogs, I don't care about anything else, I just want to be with them,” said the star, who had a chapel built on his estate next to his dogs' grave.
It is not known whether Delon's will, revealed in an old interview, will be fulfilled.
“IF THERE'S ONE THING I CAN BE PROUD OF, IT'S MY CAREER”
In 1999, Delon announced that he was ending his acting career, but in the same year, he continued his career with a role in Bertrand Blier's film “Les Acteurs”.
He then starred in several television series. In 2022, in his last film before his retirement, he starred opposite Juliette Binoche in “The Empty House” directed by Patrice Leconte.
“You will never see me old and ugly because I will either go sooner or die,” Delon told L'Humanite Hebdo magazine in August 2002.
“I am sure that if there is one thing I can be proud of, it is my career,” Delon said at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.
HIS CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE DISPUTE
The inheritance dispute between the three children of Alain Delon, whose health deteriorated, was on the agenda. His sons Anthony and Alain-Fabien claim that their sister Anouchka manipulated their father and hid his health condition.
Anouchka, on the other hand, says that her siblings endangered their father's life and prevented them from moving to Switzerland.
