Christian Aaron Boulogne Mother: Meet Christa Paffgen (Nico)

Christian Aaron Boulogne the son of Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model. In the 1980s, she toured extensively in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan. After a concert in Berlin in June 1988, she went on holiday to Ibiza to rest and died as a result of a cycling accident.

Nico had an affair with French actor Alain Delon and on August 11, 1962, gave birth to their son, Christian whom she called Ari. Delon denied paternity and Nico had difficulty raising Ari so the boy was raised by Delon’s parents.

Nico saw herself as part of a tradition of bohemian artists, which she traced back to the Romanticism of the early 19th century. She led a nomadic life, living in different countries.

Apart from Germany where she grew up and Spain where she died, Nico lived in Italy and France in the 1950s and spent most of the 1960s again in the 1980s, when she moved between London and Manchester.

Nico’s cremated remains are buried in her mother’s plot in Grunewald, a forest cemetery in Berlin.