EXCLUSIVE ALISON BOSHOFF: French acting icon Alain Delon’s lover in war with his children over ‘abuse’ claims after they kick her out of his house
The lover of ailing French acting icon Alain Delon is fighting back after being kicked out of his house by his children — with nothing but the clothes on her back and 60 Euros in cash — saying that the pair had talked about marriage.
In July, Hiromi Rollin was evicted from the chateau south of Paris which she had shared with the 88-year-old, multi-millionaire French acting legend for 17 years.
His daughter Anouchka and two grown-up sons, Anthony and Alain-Fabien, filed a writ against Ms Rollin, saying she was exploiting their father’s age and infirmity, had been cruel to him (and his pets) and stolen cash.
She has now made a counter complaint, and the dispute is likely to come to court next year.
Ms Rollin, 60, tells the Daily Mail of the legal complaint: ‘It’s a set-up to get me out of their father’s life. That was their only goal. As we love each other, the only solution for them was to invent things to blame me. This is an exploitation of justice.’
The lover of ailing French acting icon Alain Delon (pictured) is fighting back after being kicked out of his house by his children
Ms Rollin is particularly angry at being described by the family as Delon’s carer. ‘It’s despicable — it’s a pure invention,’ she fumed. ‘We behaved like a normal couple…we kissed, the children saw it, they knew very well that, until Alain’s stroke, we shared the same bed.
‘It suits them to call me a companion to justify the complaint, and thus erase 17 years of life together with their father. The Delon children know very well that this is not the case and that this expression is insulting and defamatory.’
Ms Rollin added that her relationship with Delon actually began 33 years ago. They met in December 1989, when she was second assistant director on his film Dancing Machine. ‘I immediately felt a spark between us,’ she recalled.
Ms Rollin moved in to his estate at Douchy in 2006, after Delon’s separation from Dutch model girlfriend Rosalie van Breemen (mother of Anouchka and Alain-Fabien. Anthony’s mother was actress Nathalie Delon).
They had three cats and a Belgian Shepherd dog called Loubo, who the children accuse her of mistreating. Ms Rollin said: ‘In Douchy, we had a peaceful life together, surrounded by our dog and cats that we both loved.’
Hiromi Rollin, 60, was evicted from the chateau south of Paris which she had shared with the 88-year-old, multi-millionaire French acting legend for 17 years
Ms Rollin went on: ‘After his stroke, we were together every day. It united us even more. I took care of him alone. I never had any help from his children, nor the slightest recognition from them. Alain often told me: ‘If I’m alive, it’s thanks to you.’ Lately, Alain was starting to think about how to protect me for the future. Marriage had been mentioned.’ Asked about the alleged attack on Loubo, Ms Rollin said: ‘I’m disgusted. It’s a pure invention to keep me out of their father’s life.’
Ms Rollin said she believed Delon was being manipulated by his children. ‘I don’t even know if he knows what they’ve been doing to me,’ she said. ‘I do not know what they told him afterwards about the reasons for my absence.’
She claimed that when she was bundled out of the house, she had just the clothes she stood up in and 60 Euros in cash. She also alleged she had been assaulted by a bodyguard hired by the family. ‘Regarding the complaints filed against me, I’m relaxed, because all the accusations are false. I have absolutely nothing to reproach myself for,’ she said.
Prosecutors in nearby Montargis have opened an investigation into all the allegations.
Now Mary’s the toast of TikTok
Dame Mary Berry has scaled every professional pinnacle in her long career as a TV presenter and food writer — and in an unlikely twist, she has now become a star on TikTok.
On the video sharing platform, Berry, 88, has attracted attention for throwback clips showing her, as a young woman, giving advice on making old-fashioned dishes like trifle and tongue, as well as more modern clips — especially ones which show her criticising other people’s food.
One clip, ‘Mary Berry and her foul mouth’, which purports to show her swearing (although the makers seem to have simply added a bleep) has 97,000 likes.
Another shows her talking about preparing tongue for the family, saying: ‘You have to ask the butcher if you want to have a tongue.’
Berry, 88, has attracted attention for throwback clips showing her, as a young woman, giving advice on making old-fashioned dishes
Mary admitted on Woman’s Hour this week: ‘Do you know, to be honest, I don’t really know what TikTok is.’ But she added: ‘If the young are learning from my videos and things, I do hope that they enjoy it, because first of all I think of myself as a teacher.’ She remains tremendously popular with her traditional audience, too, and is fast becoming the new patron saint of Christmas cooking.
Her 2022 show. Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas, is being repeated in the run-up to festivities. And Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas was shown on BBC One on Wednesday.
Girls creator Lena Dunham has joined forces with her British musician husband to write a new TV show…about a woman married to an unsuccessful musician. Too Much is being created for Netflix by Dunham and Luis Felber, who she married in 2021. A synopsis for the project, being filmed next year, indicates it’s an ex-pat romcom about whether Americans and Brits can speak the same language.
Girls creator Lena Dunham has joined forces with her British musician husband, Luis Felber, to write a new TV show about a woman married to an unsuccessful musician
How Vanessa pipped rising star Andrea to role in The Crown
As The Crown comes to an end, following the final release of its sixth series on Netflix this week, writer Peter Morgan has been looking back at the genesis of the mega-hit drama.
He has previously talked about almost overlooking Claire Foy, who played the young Queen, even though she auditioned multiple times. And now he says that Vanessa Kirby almost lost out on the role of Princess Margaret, too.
‘Everybody was leaning towards another actress that they felt was a significant get. And I wasn’t 100 per cent sure about that person,’ he revealed.
Vanessa Kirby almost lost out on the role of Princess Margaret in The Crown
Sources indicate that it was Andrea Riseborough got pipped to the role by Kirby
But who was the ‘significant get’ who got pipped to the role by Kirby? Sources indicate that it was Andrea Riseborough, who at the time was riding high after playing Wallis Simpson in Madonna’s movie W.E.
Losing out did her no harm — she has since starred in films including Nocturnal Animals and To Leslie, for which she was Oscar nominated. Her upcoming projects include two roles alongside Kate Winslet: the film Lee about Lee Miller and TV drama The Palace.
Kirby, meanwhile, has gone on to appear in the Mission Impossible films and also star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. She told an interviewer this year that Princess Margaret was the favourite role of her career, saying: ‘She’s so much cooler than me, and that was really fun. To play someone who was so Technicolor, so potent.’
The end of Little Mix (the band went on an ‘indefinite hiatus’ in 2022) has ushered in a golden period for Perrie Edwards, with accounts showing that she has added another million to her fortune.
Perrie Edwards, 30, has accounts showing that she has added another million to her fortune
Edwards, 30, has seen assets in her company, Perrie Louise Limited, soar from £186,000 to more than £1.2 million in the year to March 2023. That sum does not include cash from a new solo record deal with the label Columbia, which she signed earlier this year.
Alongside her career as a singer she also has a clothing brand, Disora, which she launched in 2021. She is engaged to footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and they have a two-year-old son Axel.
When I am king, I’ll ban chickens
No lutes or lepers — and absolutely no chickens — were allowed on the set of ITV’s forthcoming prestige drama The Winter King. Director Otto Bathurst explained: ‘I hated the idea of there being any cliches and tropes on screen, to the point where we operated a medieval trope radar, and anything that was caught got jettisoned.
‘Livestock — pigs and chickens in particular — were a complete no-no. So, too, any musical instruments — and any wretched, poor looking people. I think it gives the drama a fresh, original look.’
Iain De Caestecker stars in ITV’s forthcoming prestige drama, The Winter King, as Arthur Pendragon
Executive producer Lachlan MacKinnon added: ‘Old, crusty men, even as supporting artistes, were banned too. You were doing well to reach the age of 35 in the 6th century, so old crusty men really didn’t exist.’
The drama is based on the books by Bernard Cornwell and stars Iain De Caestecker as Arthur Pendragon.
Beckham goes to the dark side!
His devoted wife Victoria has been known to make teasing comments about footballer David Beckham’s vanity, but I hear that he wasn’t entirely thrilled with the way he looked on the recent four-part Netflix documentary about him.
David Beckham wasn’t entirely thrilled with the way he looked on the recent four-part Netflix documentary about him, according to sources
Sources say there was some unhappiness about his hair, which was shorn before Beckham premiered, and that he was even a little dissatisfied with his handsome face.
One viewer Tweeted: ‘My takeaway from watching…is that David Beckham’s Botox game is in the premier league. And his hair and beard colorist deserves a medal.’ Another wrote: ‘He’s had work done, I suspect. Especially around his eyes. And his hair, beard and eyebrows have all been dyed too dark. He’s naturally fair and should have gone lighter, not darker.’
Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson fancies Mick Jagger to voice one of her characters in a TV adaptation. Donaldson says she’d had a crush on the Rolling Stones frontman ever since seeing him in concert. ‘He would be brilliant… I’d love to get him on board,’ she said. Particularly, she added, in a singing role. Christmas Day’s Donaldson treat on BBC1 does have a musical link. It’s an adaptation of Tabby McTat, about a cat and his busker owner, Fred. ‘[Jagger] would have been great for Fred,’ she said wistfully. ‘But Rob Brydon has that part, and he has a very fine voice.’
Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson fancies Mick Jagger to voice one of her characters in a TV adaptation
The film Anatomy Of A Fall is on the rise, scooping two Golden Globes nominations and five gongs at the European Film Awards this week. A courtroom drama centring on a woman accused of murdering her husband by pushing him from a third-floor window, the film stars German actress Sandra Huller and is currently on cinematic release in the UK. At the Globes in January it will go up against Maestro, Killers Of The Flower Moon, Past Lives, Oppenheimer and The Zone Of Interest in the Best Picture (drama) category. The event is widely viewed as a bellwether for the Academy Awards.
Interestingly, there was no love shown by the Globes for either Ferrari or Napoleon, a disappointment for veteran directors Michael Mann and Ridley Scott.
The film Anatomy Of A Fall is on the rise, scooping two Golden Globes nominations and five gongs at the European Film Awards this week (Pictured: French director Justine Triet (left) and German actress Sandra Hueller pose with their trophies)
Tribute to TV queen Caroline
Caroline Aherne’s genius is the subject of an affecting film, Caroline Aherne: Queen Of Comedy, which will go out on BBC Two on Christmas Day. Among contributors is her best friend and writing partner Craig Cash, who wept as he recalled how she called him after taking an overdose in 1998. Cash wept again as he talked about her illness and death from cancer in 2016, after she’d enjoyed a professional revival with the special Queen Of Sheba episode of The Royle Family and narrating Gogglebox. ‘What happened next felt very cruel,’ he said, adding: ‘She said: ‘We had some laughs, didn’t we Cashy?’
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