Alain Delon, the torments of his never-recognized son Ari: death in solitude, drug abuse and depression

The battle for recognition is still ongoing despite the death of Christian Aaron Päffgen ('Ari' Boulogne), which took place in 2023 in Paris. Ari was the son of Christa Päffgen, better known as Nico, a supermodel and singer of the Velvet Underground. “You are not my son. I only slept with your mother once,” Alain Delon once told him. The young man was adopted by Delon's mother, with whom the actor had lost relations, and took the last name of he…