Alain Delon’s ex-lover accuses his kids of ‘inhumane’ behaviour

The live-in lover of the French film legend Alain Delon has accused the actor’s three children of ‘inhumanely’ blocking her from saying goodbye to her partner before his death on Sunday aged 88.

Hiromi Rollin, 66, had been living part-time with the sickly Delon as his assistant and carer for some 17 years but claimed the pair had been in love for three decades.

The Japanese-born cinema worker yesterday declared that Delon’s three children – Alain-Fabien, Anouchka and Anthony – refused to let her see him upon his death.

She had previously accused them of taking advantage of their father’s declining mental state and said they’d evicted her from his household last July.

‘We loved one another for 30 years. I lived with him for 17 and was separated from Alain unfairly, brutally and violently,’ she told French outlet Le Figaro, claiming Delon’s children said she was nothing more than a housekeeper even though they knew ‘we were sharing the same bed’.

‘His children did not even allow me to say ”au revoir”. It’s inhuman,’ she declared.

It comes after a court previously dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Delon children against Rollin for abuse of a vulnerable person and harassment.

Anthony, 59, Anouchka, 33, and Alain-Fabien, 30, squabbled bitterly for years over their father’s medical treatment prior to his death.

Anouchka claimed that Anthony, the eldest, was aggressively hassling his father about his mental state following a 2019 stroke.

Anthony in return said Anouchka had sought to hide damning results of Delon’s cognitive tests from the rest of the family.

But all three of the children were wary of Rollin and last year sought to oust her from the high-walled household in the central French town of Douchy, where Delon lived out his final years as a recluse.

When she left Delon’s property for a trip last July, they filed a lawsuit against her and with the help of a private security company and police barred her from entering the home upon her return.

Delon himself is said to have supported the suit, according to The Times, but also confirmed the pair had been lovers, contradicting the claims of his children.

Rollin and Delon first met in 1992 on the set of ‘The Return of Casanova’ in which the actor played the titular character and Rollin worked as an assistant director.

They cultivated a strong professional relationship which later became ‘intimate’, according to Delon himself.

As he grew old, Rollin became a live-in assistant and carer, but Delon described her as his ‘Japanese companion’.

His children refused to acknowledge their relationship and claimed she was taking advantage of their father.

In an interview with French and Japanese outlets last year, Rollin said the Delon children told her: ‘You are not his companion. You take care of the dogs and the house.’

Delon’s performances in some of the greatest films of the 1960s and 70s were widely praised, his charisma on screen impossible to ignore.

Far from a cerebral actor, Delon was considered an instinctive genius who prided himself on never working on his technique.

Former president of the Cannes festival, Gilles Jacob, paid tribute to Delon as ‘a lion, an actor with a steely gaze’, while Alberto Barbera, director of the Venice film festival, said he was an ‘icon’ who had climbed ‘to the Olympus of the immortals’.

He was one of the last living legends of a golden era for French cinema in the 1960s.

Fellow 60s star Brigitte Bardot, 89, said Delon ‘leaves a huge void that nothing, nobody, can fill’, while French President Emmanuel Macron called him a ‘French monument’ who ‘played legendary roles and made the world dream’.

But while he had legions of fans around the world, his political opinions and personal life divided opinion.

Delon’s relationship with women in particular caused heaps of controversy.

His sons accused him of domestic violence, which Delon denied – though he previously admitted to slapping women during quarrels.

Delon married Francine Canovas, known as Nathalie Delon, in 1964. The pair had Delon’s first son, Anthony, amid a stormy relationship that ended in divorce in 1969. 

The actor also had a series of tumultuous affairs, describing German actor Romy Schneider as the ‘love of my life’ after their relationship in that same decade.

Other high-profile relationships including pop diva Dalida and model-turned-actor Mireille Darc, as well as Rosalie van Breemen, a Dutch journalist and model who mothered Delon’s two younger children, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien.

She later described their 14-year relationship as ‘hell’. 

German-born Velvet Underground singer Nico claimed Delon was the father of her son, Christian Aaron Boulogne – something the actor continually denied until Boulogne’s death in 2023 from a heroin overdose.