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Bernard d'Ormale, Brigitte Bardot’s fourth husband who lived with her for 30 years until her death last December, is upset about an auction of her personal items in Paris today. The sale includes over 300 lots like hats and underwear from her homes in St Tropez and Paris, organized by Millon auction house to benefit the animal charity Bardot founded. Despite living luxuriously with Bardot until recently, d'Ormale now resides in a council flat after being disinherited in her will and criticizes the sale as "scandalous" and disrespectful to Bardot’s memory.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-21,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Personal belongings of late French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot fetched nearly €1 million ($1.15 million) at a four-day auction in Paris ending on Monday, surpassing the initial estimate by almost 20 times. Over 285 items, including Repetto ballet flats, diamond rings, straw hats, sunglasses, and furniture from her homes in Saint-Tropez and Paris, were sold to raise money for her animal charity foundation and her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier. The auction drew around 15,000 visitors who viewed the items over six days before the sale. Bardot, known as a sex symbol of the 1950s and later an outspoken animal rights activist, died at age 91 in December 2025. Her final husband Bernard d'Ormale, now living in a council flat after being disinherited by her will, criticized the sale for stripping her bare.
Written for “Brigitte Bardot Auction” on 2026-10-05,
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In life she always created a storm, first as cinema's original 'sex kitten' and later as an outspoken animal rights activist.
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And now, almost a year after her death, Brigitte Bardot is still making waves – in a row over an auction of her clothes and underwear.
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Bardot → make → clothes
The French cultural icon's disinherited fourth – and final – husband has condemned the sell-off as 'scandalous'.
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husband → condemn → off
Bernard d'Ormale, 85, was until last year living in luxury with the former actress at their home in St Tropez, in the South of France.
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But when Ms Bardot died in December aged 91, despite their 30 years together she left him nothing in her will.
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Now living in a council flat, Mr d'Ormale is furious over the auction in Paris today because it will 'strip her bare'.
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Items on sale include Ms Bardot's trademark straw sun hats, a black tutu, berets, toiletries, underwear and classic Repetto ballet shoes.
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They were kept at her flat in the French capital and at La Madrague, her home by the Mediterranean which she bought in 1958 after making her name in the classic film, And God Created Woman.
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Sex kitten: Brigitte Bardot rose to fame in France in the 1950s
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Stripped bare: Bardot with her fourth husband Bernard d’Ormale
Reacting to the sale, organised by auction house Millon to raise money for the animal charity founded by Ms Bardot and for her son Nicholas Charrier, now 66,
Mr d'Ormale said: 'These are personal items.
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'All of this could have been kept for the day when people are able to visit La Madrague.
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It's scandalous to strip her bare in this way.'
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In total about 300 lots will be offered at the Hotel Drouot, and Mr d'Ormale now fears La Madrague, and Ms Bardot's other estate in St Tropez – La Garrigue – will go the same way.
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He told French newspaper Nice Matin: 'If the idea ever crosses their minds to sell everything off just like this auction, how can I prove the items belonged to Brigitte or were part of my private life?
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Brigitte certainly wouldn't have agreed to this sale – she would have sent them packing.
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When asked about being disinherited in Ms Bardot's will,
Mr d'Ormale claimed: 'I was the one who told her I didn't want anything at all.'
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I → ask → anything
A spokesman for the Brigitte Bardot Foundation insisted Mr d'Ormale himself was president when the auction was agreed, although he denies this.
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he → insist → this
Discussing La Madrague, Mr d'Ormale said: 'I've lived there for 35 years and now I'm being kicked out – can you believe it?'
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Beyond her 47 films, Ms Bardot recorded 70 songs before retiring from public life in 1973.
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Bardot → record → 1973
Later, the outspoken Right-winger was convicted and fined six times for inciting racial hatred.
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winger → convict → hatred
She was married four times – to director Roger Vadim, actor Jacques Charrier with whom she had Nicholas, socialite Gunter Sachs, and then Mr d'Ormale.
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Other high-profile lovers included singer Serge Gainsbourg.
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