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As of September 2021, Brigitte Bardot has gathered a net worth of $70 Million. She has garnered most of her earnings from her career as an actress and singer. She is most well-known for her role in several popular films including, “And God Created Woman” and “Viva Maria!”. She earned a Best Foreign Actress Award for her role in the film, “La vérité.” She is a successful singer as well, having recorded several popular songs including, “Bubble gum” and “Contact.” Since 1973, she has been involved in animal rights activism.

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During World War II, she took to dancing to records, which caught the attention of her mother, and as a result, she began taking dance lessons at a local studio. Coming to her education, she has attended Institut de la Tour, which is a private Catholic high school near her home. She has also attended ballet classes by the popular Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev for three years.

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They got divorced a couple of years later in 1962, and Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family, and Brigitte had little contact with him until he was an adult. She then had an affair with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s. On the 14 th of July 1966, she married the popular millionaire, Gunter Sachs. However, they got divorced on the 1 st of October 1969. here

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She began her career in Hollywood in 1965 with the comedy film, “Dear Brigitte.” The same year, she starred in the adventure comedy film, “Viva Maria!” which turned out to be a huge hit in France. During the period between the 1960s and the 1970s, she recorded several popular songs including, “Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît,” “Bubble gum,” and “Contact.”

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Jean-Louis Trintignant at the time was married to popular actress Stéphane Audran. The two lived together for almost a couple of years. During this time, she had an affair with the popular musician, Gilbert Bécaud. She had a nervous breakdown in Italy in 1958 as a result of her breakup with Trintignant. here

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It was rumored that she attempted suicide a couple of days later, but the reports were denied by her public relations manager. She then began dating the popular actor Jacques Charrier and got pregnant before her marriage with him on the 18 th of June 1959. Together, they have a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, who was born on the 11 th of January 1960. more

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Bardot has written: “I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country.”

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Bardot has written what the great Jean Raspail once wrote in his 1973 brilliant dystopian novel In the Camp of the Saints.

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In 1998, Bardot was again convicted for “decrying the loss of French identity and tradition due to the ‘multiplication of mosques while our church bells fall silent for want of priests.’” here

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The prosecutor in her fifth trial, Anne de Fontette, wants a heftier fine and a tougher sentence: the equivalent of $24,000 and a two month (hopefully) suspended jail term.

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"Ban Bardot!" advocated the morality leagues as if she were some kind of illegal drug. Bardot's appeal is, in fact, unlike any other. Based on her great beauty, a combination of ravenous sensuality and great style, she also fascinated at least two generations because of her lifestyle. For Bardot behaved in her private life just like a man. She had no restraints; she felt alien to convention. She was no wife and no mother. She tried both, was married four times and had a child, and decided she was not cut out for it. She was not acting out any kind of rebellion, she was just being herself. In the 50s, 15 years before les événements of May 1968, such behaviour was both a scandal and a secret aspiration for many other women. In a study of Bardot published in 1959, the other French woman who lived her life outside bourgeois conventions, Simone de Beauvoir, had recognised in Bardot "absolute freedom". Her lifestyle, for many admirers, amounted to a philosophical manifesto. [links]

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The innocent jeune fille grew, in just a few years, into a sex symbol. In 1957, age 23, she made cinematic history in And God Created Woman, her husband Roger Vadim's seminal film, where her exploding sensuality is as graceful as ever, and never lewd. In a famous scene, she dances as if in a trance, barefoot, her skin glowing with sweat, her hair wild and loose. Her thighs, that of a dancer, are tanned, strong and muscular. She is so far from the neat and constructed image of Hollywood stars of the time that, when the film was released in America, it provoked outrage on a continental scale. When they saw those pearls of sweat, American men went wild. Movie managers daring to show such a film were prosecuted, the film was banned in some states and newspaper articles denounced the depravity of it all. As a result, the film proved an even greater box-office success and the furore travelled back to Europe. here

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Serial biographer Marie-Dominique Lelièvre says of all the stars she turned her attention to, from Yves Saint Laurent to Coco Chanel by way of Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Sagan, Bardot is the most complex personality she has encountered, her celebrity having worked as a smokescreen. "She is the first woman to have publicly displayed her sexual freedom," said Lelièvre. "Before Bardot, a woman who changed lover at the slightest whim was called a bitch, a salope. After Bardot, such a woman was simply seen as libérée. Unlike Hollywood actresses who played by the rules, Bardot set her own. She attracted women who wanted to do like her, and men who simply wanted her." John Lennon, mad about the girl, had a giant poster of Bardot pinned on the ceiling of his bedroom. Gainsbourg wrote her a song after they broke up in 1968 called Initials BB in which he sings: "All the way to her thighs, she is booted, and it's like a chalice to her beauty; she wears nothing other than some essence of Guerlain in her hair." [links]

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Unlike other screen goddesses of the time such as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren (who had her 80th birthday on Saturday), Brigitte Bardot was not a working-class lass. She came from a very bourgeois, pious Catholic family, living in a seven-bedroom apartment in the plush 16th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower. Having studied ballet for three years from the age of 13 at the Paris Conservatory (her fellow dance mate, Leslie Caron, would later be picked up by Gene Kelly to star alongside him in the Technicolor masterpiece An American in Paris), she developed the elegant poise and gait which would soon fascinate the world. here

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Today, still, Bardot is an icon. "Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse owe her a lot," explains Marie-Dominique Lelièvre. And a controversial one. Unlike Faye Dunaway, Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneuve, and almost any movie beauty of her stature, Bardot has never resorted to cosmetic surgery. "She has never avoided the cruel gaze of the mirror. She withstands ageing with aplomb." Nevertheless, all is not well in Bardotland. Having lived for decades as a recluse in her two properties in St Tropez, unable to go out without being harassed by fans and paparazzi, she has developed, says her biographer, "a rather distorted view of the world", concentrating only on her foundation for the protection and welfare of animals. Opposed to what she sees as the inherent cruelty of the halal process in killing animals, she has made anti-Muslim comments for which she was condemned by French courts and made to pay hefty fines. Between 1997 and 2008 she faced French judges five times for "incitement to racial hatred". On the last occasion she received a €15,000 fine. She was condemned for saying: "I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population [the Muslim community] which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts." She was referring to the lack of anaesthetics before slaughtering sheep. "Animals are her whole life, and being the spontaneous woman she is, she expresses opinions that she should simply keep for herself. She doesn't really understand that being Bardot, her words, carry a certain weight. On many levels, she has remained an insouciant and egocentric child," says Lelièvre. [links]

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Then, in 1956, Vadim offered her the astonishing role of the fierce and savage Juliette in … And God Created Woman. The movie was poorly received in France—its sensational depiction of a small-town siren and her effect on the men around her rubbed a conservative culture the wrong way—but it triumphed in the U.S. After four years and 15 roles, Bardot had reached the top in a serious film. “In fact, I owe everything to the Americans,” she explains. Ironically, she never made a movie in the United States, and she starred alongside very few American actors (Kirk Douglas being one of them). The success of … And God Created Woman did not bring Bardot the sort of personal satisfaction one might have anticipated. “All my life,” she says, “during that film, and before and after, I was never what I wanted to be, which was frank, honest, and straightforward. I wasn’t scandalous—I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be myself. Only myself.” here

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Bardot had known this area for many years: her parents owned a vacation house in St. Tropez, and she spent summers here with her younger sister. Born into a family of means, Bardot began taking dance classes at the age of seven with the aim of becoming a ballerina. After 10 years en pointe she acquired an effortless allure. Bardot’s modeling career began when she started posing for friends of her mother, who designed hats. Photographs were taken—and noticed. In 1950, at the age of 15, she graced the cover of French Elle, which led, in 1952, to her marriage to the director Roger Vadim and the first of 40 movies. The movies initially were lighthearted romantic comedies, the plots interchangeable and forgettable. “I don’t think I was a good comedian,” Bardot says. “I contented myself to express what people asked me to interpret, and giving it my best.” But the story lines were hardly the point. On the screen the world discovered a young woman with a swan’s neck, a luscious figure, and an ostentatious bouffant who combined youth, sex, flirtatiousness, insolence, and grace, all wrapped up in a bewildering nonchalance—a heady mix. She was a new kind of blonde bombshell, a phenomenon that a world still recovering from the nightmare of war didn’t quite know it was waiting for.

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“It’s what I dreamed of,” Bardot says now. “It’s what I always wanted.” She threw herself seriously into the animal-rights campaign beginning in 1977, with her efforts to end the killing of baby seals in Canada. She has stepped in to oppose the transport and slaughter of horses, vivisection, bullfights, industrial animal farms, hunting, the wearing of fur. To support the cause, Bardot sold many of her personal effects at auction—her dresses, her souvenirs, and even some of her jewelry, including a diamond ring, ruby bracelets, and a pearl necklace given to her by the German millionaire Gunter Sachs, her third husband. (“I never get hung up on the past—the memories are too negative.”) Bardot’s work is embodied in the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals, based in Paris. She does not use a computer but is in constant communication with the foundation the old-fashioned way, writing in blue ink on blue sheets of paper that bear only the words “La Madrague, Saint-Tropez, 83990.” She works by a window at a rustic Provence table with a checked tablecloth. To her signature she adds a little daisy. “I don’t feel old or used up,” she says, “and I don’t have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause. Today, there are more regulations on cars than for animals.”

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Today, Bardot lives at La Madrague with her husband of 20 years, Bernard d’Ormale, a former businessman who now mainly devotes himself to his wife. Visitors are rare: the lady of the house is not eager for guests. La Madrague is a peaceable enclave, perfumed by wild herbs and flowers. Decades ago, the walls kept throngs of fans and photographers at bay. It is quieter now. On the outside of the surrounding wall is a small trough for dogs, the basin continually freshened with water. The house itself lies beyond the dark-blue gate, overlooking the sea, its walls covered with clematis and wisteria. Inside, the furnishings are bohemian and eclectic, very casual and somehow frozen in time. A dozen dogs and cats roam the property. In the garden, under wooden crosses, lie cats and dogs who have departed. [links]

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In 1973, Bardot decided to bring her acting career to an end and begin a second life. Her screen image would henceforward be preserved in amber at a certain age, as it had been for Garbo and Monroe. “I was really sick of it,” Bardot says. “Good thing I stopped, because what happened to Marilyn Monroe and Romy Schneider would have happened to me.” Over the years she had turned down roles opposite Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen (Faye Dunaway took the part in The Thomas Crown Affair), and Marlon Brando (leaving a million-dollar paycheck on the table). When she was on location, making movies, she had often found herself picking up stray animals, even goats and sheep, destined for the pound or the slaughterhouse, and going as far as to shelter them in her hotel room. Perhaps it should not have been a surprise that she decided to dedicate herself to animal rights, and to the idea that animals deserve respect as living beings and are not merely a source of profit. here