Brigitte Bardot Net Worth

Brigitte Bardot's Quotes

• I have always adored beautiful young men. Just because I grow older, my taste doesn't change. So if I can still have them, why not?
• If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't I'll stick to animals.
• [when asked what was the best day of her life] It was a night...
• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
• I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Interesting Facts about Brigitte Bardot

1. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#9). [1995]
2. Ranked #49 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
3. Mother of Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (born January 11, 1960), who was raised by his father's family and did not have contact with Bardot until his adulthood. In 1997, Nicolas successfully sued Brigitte over descriptions she included in her memoirs, in which she referred to her son as a "tumor" and said she would have "preferred to give birth to a little dog." (She also revealed that, in an attempt to abort the child, she repeatedly punched herself in the stomach and asked her doctor for morphine.) Nicolas and Jacques Charrier claimed the book's graphic details of marital discord and child-rejection constituted a violation of their privacy - a civil offense in France. A French court ordered Bardot to pay EUR17,000 in damages.
4. Born to Louis Bardot (1896-1975), nicknamed Pilou, who graduated from an engineering school to go into the family business, which manufactured liquid air and acetylene, and Ann-Marie Mucel (1912-1978), nicknamed Toty. Toty had studied theatre and dance as a young lady, while Pilou wrote poetry in his notebook and published several volumes.
5. Retired from acting in 1973 at age 39 and has since been involved with various animal rights causes, but remains a major popular culture icon.
6. One of the leading animal rights activists in the world and the head of "Foundation Brigitte Bardot", which is a foundation dedicated to animal rights.
7. Recorded many popular songs in the '60s and '70s.
8. Breast cancer survivor.
9. She is one of the five surviving people mentioned by name in Billy Joel's 1989 song "We Didn't Start the Fire". The other four are Queen Elizabeth II, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan and Bernard Goetz.
10. Husband Bernard d'Ormale is a wealthy industrialist and supporter of the far-right French nationalist party Front National.
11. Was charged with inciting racial hatred in her best-selling book "Un cri dans le silence" ("A cry in silence"), expressing worries about the "infiltration" of France by Islamic extremists. She could have faced a maximum prison term of one year, but was finally fined EUR 5,000. [2004]
12. Was Marianne de France, the bust of the most beautiful woman of a decade and she is also the symbol of liberty and the Republic, from 1969 to 1978.
13. She has two granddaughters from her estranged son Nicolas' marriage to Anne-Line Bjerkan (daughter of a Norwegian diplomat): Anna (born 1985) and Thea (born 1990). As of 2009, Brigitte hasn't seen her son in over a decade and has no contact with her granddaughters; the only time she's ever met them was in 1992 during a family get-together arranged by her husband, Bernard d'Ormale. Brigitte became a great-grandmother in February 2014, when Anna gave birth to a girl.
14. She and husband Bernard d'Ormale got married in a small town outside Oslo, Norway, where her son lives with his family.
15. Sister of Mijanou Bardot. Mijanou has been married to Patrick Bauchau since 1962 and has one daughter, Camille.
16. Sang songs "Harley Davidson", "Je Me Donne a Qui Me Plait", "Bubblegum", "Contact", "Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi", "L'Appareil a Sous", "La Madrague", "Le Soleil De Ma Vie", "On Demenage", "Sidonie", "Tu Veux, Tu Veux Pas".
17. Recorded a special audio performance for the classic "Velveteen Rabbit", produced by Pierre Patrick for Connecticut Family Theatre. [2007]
18. Resided with Jean-Louis Trintignant from 1956 to 1958, Bob Zagury from 1963 to 1965, Patrick Gilles from 1968 to 1971, Jean Blaise from 1975 to 1979, and Allain Bougrain-Dubourg from 1980 to 1985.
19. Between marriages and live-ins, she was also sporadically linked with Warren Beatty, Gilbert Bécaud, Sacha Distel, Nino Ferrer, Sami Frey, Serge Gainsbourg, John Gilmore, Jimi Hendrix, Christian Kalt, Luigi Rizzi, Michael Sarne and Laurent Vergez.
20. Took a handful of tranquilizers, washed them down with red wine and then wandered out to the Les Canoubiers beach, where she was later pulled from the surf. She was rushed to the nearby L'Oasis clinic, where her stomach was pumped before she was released that evening. [September 1983]