Every lunchtime, or early afternoon, when he emerges from sleepless nights at his estate in Douchy, central France, which he hasn’t left since the summer, Alain flips through the copy of his favorite daily newspaper, Le Parisien, which waits for him on the kitchen table. In it, the 88-year-old reads the chronicle of a family in tatters – his own. The loss of capacity of influential and wealthy patriarchs or matriarchs can have a devastating effect on their family’s dynamic, all the more so when it is played out in the public eye. This rings true in the case of Alain Delon, the 1960s French film star, whose children have publicly aired a dispute surrounding his medical regime and estimated €245 million fortune.
