{"id":14928,"date":"2026-05-02T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/delon-a-dead-body-and-a-corsican-gangster-new-book-unravels-the-markovic-affair\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:24:07","slug":"delon-a-dead-body-and-a-corsican-gangster-new-book-unravels-the-markovic-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/delon-a-dead-body-and-a-corsican-gangster-new-book-unravels-the-markovic-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Delon, a dead body and a Corsican gangster: new book unravels the Markovic Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/2aee53f8-3fd1-11f1-981d-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/000-34U83TC.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>In 1968, Alain Delon\u2019s former bodyguard Stevan Markovic was found dead, a bullet in his head, wrapped in plastic, wearing the actor\u2019s clothes. The scandal took France by storm, with Delon questioned by police and his friend, gangster\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Marcantoni, spending a year in prison charged with the killing before he was released and the case dropped. &#8220;Murder In Paris &#8217;68: A True Story of Death and Glamour\u201d attempts to uncover what really happened. RFI spoke to its author, Edward Chisholm.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20260425-delon-a-dead-body-and-a-corsican-gangster-new-book-unravels-the-markovic-affair-murder-in-paris-68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1968, Alain Delon\u2019s former bodyguard Stevan Markovic was found dead, a bullet in his head, wrapped in plastic, wearing the actor\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}