Overview
- The Fondation Brigitte Bardot issued an official communiqué announcing her death and honoring her legacy as its founder and president.
- Recent reporting says she had been ill and was hospitalized twice in a private clinic in Toulon in the weeks before her death.
- Bardot’s international breakthrough came with Roger Vadim’s 1956 film And God Created Woman, which made the “BB” persona a global cultural phenomenon.
- She left cinema in 1973 after an on‑set incident in which she saved a goat, later saying the experience led her to devote herself to protecting animals.
- She established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986; the organization says it now employs more than 300 people, has rescued over 12,000 animals and operates in about 70 countries.