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With the passing of Brigitte Bardot, the delicate issue of the legendary French actress's legacy is being raised. According to the specialized website Celebrity Net Worth, her fortune was estimated at around $65 million, which includes above all the famous residence "La Madrague" in Saint-Tropez.
However, her biographer Yves Bigot has previously explained that Bardot had far less wealth than previously thought, as she retired from film more than 50 years ago and had turned down almost every lucrative contract she was offered. According to him, the actress had only signed two significant deals: one for Lancel handbags and another for an online clothing brand.
Most of her fortune went to the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for animal protection. Bigot points out that the actress auctioned off most of her properties to finance the foundation and then mortgaged her “La Madrague” residence. In 2020, Bardot also put up for sale a villa in Cannes, worth about 6 million euros. She herself had declared in 2006: “Wealth depresses me.”
Relationships with the son and the will
Her only son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, 65, who lives in Norway and with whom Bardot had a strained relationship over the years, is expected to receive his legal share. According to the biographer, this amount will not be significant.
It remains unclear whether Charrier will wage a legal battle against his mother's foundation or against her late husband, Bernard d'Ormale, who could also benefit from a share of the inheritance.
Last words and funeral wishes
Bernard d'Ormale stayed by the actress's side until the last moments of her life. According to Bruno Jacquelin, the foundation's communications director, he noticed that her breathing was calm until, at 5:55 a.m., Bardot whispered her last word of love.
As early as 2018, Brigitte Bardot had expressed her desire to be buried in the garden of her home in Saint-Tropez, rejecting public cemeteries, to avoid, as she put it, "a crowd of fools" from destroying the family tomb.
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