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Alain Delon in 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival
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The 88-year-old French film star Alain Delon is no longer allowed to manage his financial affairs alone. After several strokes, he apparently only has difficulty making himself understood. In January, he was assigned a legal guardian who was previously primarily responsible for medical decisions. A court in Montargis has now decided that the care should be expanded and also include access to Delon's bank account. French media report this unanimously. It is not yet known whether a supervisor has already been appointed or who this might be.
Alain Delon's three children have been fighting for months over where and how their father should be treated. The 33-year-old Anouchka recently sued her brothers Anthony, 59, and Alain-Fabien, 29, because they published a secretly recorded conversation between her and Alain Delon. The brothers accuse her of manipulating her father.
The dispute revolves, among other things, around the question of whether the actor should spend his retirement in his house in France or move to Switzerland, where Anouchka lives - and where the inheritance tax is probably lower. Delon also has Swiss citizenship.
According to eldest son Anthony Delon, the film star stipulated in his will that Anouchka would inherit half of his fortune and his two sons would each inherit a quarter. In public, the actor often preferred his daughter to his sons.
According to French media, she not only has a leading position in the company that manages her father's licenses and advertising contracts, but also has a villa with its own swimming pool on Delon's property in Douchy, south of Paris.
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