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Revealed in a shocking new book a year after the death of French screen legend Alain Delon... My father was 'the most beautiful man in movie history' - but he also beat up my mother and pointed a gun at me
In truth, for many years there have been suspicions that this icon of French cinema was really a monster.
Dishonourably discharged from the French Navy after a tour of duty in Indochina, and caught up in a gangsters-and-orgies scandal in 1968, no one doubted that the man who memorably unzipped Marianne Faithfull's motorbike leathers with his teeth was a fighter as well as a lover. Raised by foster parents who died in a car accident, and then returned to his mother and his hated stepfather, Delon rose to international fame in the 1960s with films such as Plein Soleil in 1960 and The Leopard in 1963, in which he starred opposite Claudia Cardinale. While Brigitte Bardot – like Delon, part of the post-war generation of Gallic actors who made their country sexy, youthful and cool – said: 'Alain, in dying, brings to an end the magnificent chapter of a bygone era of which he was a sovereign monument.'
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