Infirmity, abandonment, siphoned income: ordered by the courts, the trial of Ari Boulogne’s last companion will shed light on the tragic end of the man who called himself the son of Alain Delon.
She is accused of having let him waste away: Yasmina S., his last companion, will soon be judged for having “involuntarily caused” his death in Paris in the spring of 2023, we learned on Tuesday from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
An investigating judge considers that there are sufficient charges to refer her to a criminal court, on a date which has not yet been set, for facts resembling involuntary homicide and abuse of weakness, as revealed by the newspaper Le Parisien on Sunday.
The Paris prosecutor’s office recalls that the man who was found dead at the age of 60, at his Parisian home in the 15th arrondissement, was “hemiplegic, in a wheelchair”, “deprived of autonomy for the actions of everyday life” and “unable to seek external help”.
Justice accuses Yasmina S. of having left him “alone” in the last days of his life, between May 17 and 20, 2023, without “providing” “assistance”. Thus causing her to run a “particularly serious risk that she could not ignore”. For this, she faces up to five years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.
“In danger”
This woman would also have “voluntarily refrained from providing assistance” to Ari Boulogne, who “found himself in danger”, by “depriving him for several months”, since January 2023, “of the medical monitoring essential to his state of health and by letting him deteriorate”, continues the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Yasmina S. will also have to answer for abuse of “the weakness” of Ari Boulogne, “a person of particular vulnerability”, due to his “infirmity” and a “psychological deficiency”. His last partner would have received income from Ari Boulogne from the fall of 2019.
She would have led him “to agree to have the royalties received from his mother’s copyright paid to him”, Nico, muse of the sixties, top model, actress and singer of the Velvet Underground (where Lou Reed also played). The money would have reached her “directly into her account” “while (Ari Boulogne) was already under curatorship and this without informing her curator”, specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office.
For this, she faces up to three years of imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros.
Detention and trafficking of drugs – cannabis, cocaine and methadone – are also attributed to Yasmina S., offenses punishable by 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of 7.5 million euros.
Striking resemblance
Ari Boulogne’s life often rhymed with chaos. After Nico’s death in 1988, the one-time photographer had several stays in psychiatric hospitals and detoxification treatments.
With a striking resemblance to the “Samouraï” actor, the one whose real first name was Christian, had always considered himself to be the son of Alain Delon, a film star who died in 2024. The “Cheetah” actor has constantly denied this paternity. Declaring it time-barred, the courts rejected in 2025 the request for paternity research initiated by Ari Boulogne, and relaunched after his death by his son Charles Boulogne.
The two men crossed paths on several occasions, like this time 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, I only slept with your mother once,” reported Ari in “Libération”.
As a child, Ari was raised by the movie star’s mother, Édith Boulogne, after whom he was named and who officially adopted him with her husband.
Ari recounted his troubled existence, dominated by an absence, that of his father, in a work published in 2001 (“Love never forgets”).
The day his disappearance was announced in May 2023, Anthony Delon, son of Alain Delon, posted a message of condolences on his Instagram account: “Rest in peace, Ari. A tragic destiny. Sadness”.
