The Brigitte Bardot’s death also opens up a complex inheritance questionwaiting to find out about the existence of a will. The French diva’s estimated net worth is around 65 million eurosresulting from royalties on 60 films, image rights, over 80 songs and photography sales, as well as collaborations with luxury brands.
At the heart of the legacy is La Madrague, the villa in Saint-Tropez purchased in 1958transformed into an animal shelter and valued at between 25 and 30 million euros. Bardot also owned La Garrigue, a second Provençal estateand various financial investments. Years ago she had already donated the bare ownership of her properties to the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, maintaining usufruct of them, allocating a large part of her assets to the protection of animals, with an annual requirement estimated at 15 million euros.
Brigitte Bardot era married since 1992 to Bernard d’Ormalepolitician of the National Front, to whom part of the actress’s estate will go. The question of his only son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, remains opensixty-five years old resident in Norway. Their relationship has always been complex and distant; according to French succession law, Nicolas is entitled to legitimate share, equal to 50% of the assetsexcept for waivers or special agreements. Ma
the son’s inheritance promises to be complicated: in 1962 the actress had also given up custody of her son.
Meanwhile, according to biographer Yves Bigot, a large part of the French diva’s fortune had already been allocated to the Foundation: “She sold all her real estate assets at auction to finance the foundation and mortgaged La Madrague”, said Bigot. In 2020 Bardot also put a villa in Cannes up for sale, valued at around 6 million euros. The diva’s film career, interrupted in 1973, left only a few major commercial collaborationssuch as a deal with handbag brand Lancel and another ready-to-wear line sold online. “Wealth disgusts me,” the actress confided in 2006.
It now remains to be seen whether the son will decide to take legal action against the foundation or against the star’s latest husband to whom part of the estate should go.
Nicolas, that never loved son compared to a tumor
Nicolas-Jacques Charrier is a figure known more for his controversial relationship with his mother than for his public life. Born in 1960 from the marriage between the actress and the actor Jacques Charrier, Nicolas he lived a childhood marked by maternal absence and complex family relationships.
Nicolas’s birth occurred at a time when his mother was at the center of the international media scene. Bardot herself said that the pregnancy was unwanted and who, during those months, lived “as something imposed”
more than as a gift. After the birth of her son, the actress spoke without filters about her experience: “I became a mother exactly when I shouldn’t have. I experienced it as a tragedy, a nightmare. He made two people unhappy: me and my son”. And again: Nicolas represented “a responsibility that I had not been able to assume”.
After his birth, Nicolas was largely entrusted to his father and grandparents, while Bardot continued her film career, eventually renouncing custody of her son in 1962. Over the years, the relationship between mother and son remained distant and formal. Nicolas chose a private life, moving to Norway, getting married and keeping the media away from his private life as much as possible. The connection with Bardot was further marked by legal tensions: in 1997, following the publication of the actress’s autobiography, Nicolas and his father Jacques In the book, in fact, Bardot had defined her son as a “tumor” that had fed on her bodyadding that she would “rather give birth to a little dog.” (Of Paolo Martini)
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