With the passing of Brigitte Bardot, the chapter of her legacy opens: a heritage built over decades of career and progressively reoriented towards the goal of protecting animal rights. The actress’s fortune, according to Celebrity Net Worth assessments reported in the past by the French press, stands at around 65 million dollars. And the rights linked to his name and his artistic production continued to generate income even after his retirement from the scene in 1973.
The succession, according to what emerged, had been prepared for some time and with particular attention. Most of the assets are in fact destined for the Fondation Brigitte Bardot, the organization she founded in 1986 in her villa in Saint-Tropez and dedicated to animal protection. Over the years, Bardot had progressively channeled real estate, copyrights and financial resources towards the foundation. Among the assets include Bazoches’ country house, La Madrague – the symbolic villa on the French Riviera of which he had retained the usufruct – and the rights linked to his books, songs and artistic production.
The actress had a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, born from her relationship with Jacques Charrier. Their relationship, long conflictual, was marked by years of distance, although it improved later. “I had a son, but it cannot be said that this child, poor thing, arrived at the right time and gave me what I was missing,” the actress confided to Le Parisien in 2021. In her autobiography, ‘Initiales BB’, she went even further: “I would have preferred to give birth to a puppy”, even going so far as to compare her pregnancy to “a tumor, which had fed on me, which I had carried in my swollen flesh, just waiting for the moment blessed in which I would finally be free from it.” However, French law provides for one hereditary reserve (legitimate) to protect the children, equal to at least half of the assets. Precisely for this reason, according to press reports, Bardot advanced a large part of the assets to the foundation during her lifetime through auction sales, contributions and mortgages.
Alongside the assets destined for the foundation, there are real estate properties: in addition to La Madrague, a property on the heights of Saint-Tropez where Bardot raised animals, a villa in Cannes put up for sale in 2020 for around 6 million euros and, according to some reconstructions, several apartments in Paris.
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