Overview
- The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced her death and a spokesperson told the Associated Press she died at her home in southern France.
- No cause of death or details on funeral or memorial arrangements have been released, according to the foundation.
- French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes, praising her cultural impact as reporting revisited her decades of animal-welfare advocacy.
- Bardot became an international star with 1956’s And God Created Woman, later retired from acting in 1973, and founded her animal-rights charity in 1986.
- Her later public life included far-right alignments and repeated French court convictions for inciting racial hatred, contributing to a contested legacy.