Overview
- The auction, held Monday at Hôtel Drouot, sold 285 lots drawn from Brigitte Bardot’s Paris apartment and Saint-Tropez homes and raised €953,531 for the Fondation Brigitte Bardot and her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier.
- Millon said competitive bidding drove the total far above pre-sale estimates of about €50,000, with small items like two dog collars bought for €9,400 and a self-portrait near €40,000.
- Bernard d’Ormale publicly denounced the sale as “escandalosa” and said he had not been informed and that selling intimate possessions disrespected Bardot’s memory.
- The foundation says the sale was approved by its board in June, including d’Ormale when he served as president, and frames the auction as a continuation of Bardot’s own fundraising for animal protection.
- The outcome both boosts funding for Bardot’s animal-rights work and leaves open questions about governance and consent that could shape future management of celebrity estates and foundation assets.