Overview
- The Brigitte Bardot Foundation, via spokesperson Bruno Jacquelin, confirmed she died Sunday at her home in southern France.
- No cause of death was released and no funeral or memorial plans were announced, though reports noted a hospitalization in October for a serious illness.
- French president Emmanuel Macron led tributes, calling her a legend, as cultural and political figures reflected on her influence and activism.
- Bardot became an international star with 1956’s And God Created Woman, retired from cinema in 1973, and founded her animal-welfare charity in 1986.
- Her later statements on immigration and Islam brought multiple French court convictions and fines for inciting racial hatred, cementing a polarizing legacy.