The news was announced in a press release from the foundation that bears his name. Brigitte Bardot, actress and singer known throughout the world”, her parents write, “died at the age of 91 in La Madrague”, her famous property in Saint-Tropez.
In recent months she had been hospitalized twice in Toulon and in both cases alarming news had spread about her health. After her second hospitalization, upon leaving the hospital, the actress issued a statement inviting “everyone to calm down.” He had left the cinema 50 years ago, at not even 40 years old, after having starred in around fifty films. Among the most famous «And God created the
woman”, in 1956, and “Contempt”, in 1963. She left the stage in 1973 and devoted herself to the battle for the defense of animals. For this purpose, in 1986, he created the Foundation that bears his name. In recent years it has moved politically to far-right positions, particularly on immigration and feminism.
In recent years she lived extremely withdrawn, between La
Madrague and a second house hidden in the nearby woods, «La Garrigue», where he housed animals and where a private chapel had been built. In an interview given to Bfm TV in May, he declared that he lived «in peace, in nature. Now I live like a farmer, with my sheep, the
my goats, my pigs, my donkey and all my dogs and cats.”
