French actress dies in St Tropez after controversial life
Bardot on and off screen are united in engaging in a series of intertwining romantic relationships that often begin on one film set and end on another. Between 1952 and 1969, she was married to three men and had affairs with many other men. However, she remained married to her fourth husband, Bernard D’Ormale, from 1992 until his death.
d’Ormale was born in Marseille to a French father and an Australian mother. french celebrity magazine Premiere “As a businessman [who] He started his career in Africa, where he invested in various companies in different sectors, including textiles, film and aviation. “After returning to France, he entered politics and served as an advisor to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the National Front.”
Brigitte Bardot was both a star and an enigma.
The two met at a dinner hosted by Le Pen’s wife, Jany, and married a few weeks later. According to Bardot, one of the most important factors in their relationship was that he shared her concern for the welfare of animals. he said Paris Match Just last year d’Ormale “allowed three or four animals to sleep on him” [their] bed every night.
Bardot was a committed animal rights activist who sided with Greenpeace in their campaign against the slaughter of marine mammals. In 1977, there was a photo of her hugging a seal pup on a Canadian glacier, as part of a protest against the annual harvesting of the animals for their meat and fur. Hunting, traditionally practiced by Inuit as a means of subsistence, had become highly commercialized by the 1970s. By 2003, Canada had approved the killing of 975,000 seal pups over three years.
He was a vegetarian and campaigned against the wearing of fur. However, his love for animals led him to make provocative statements against Jews, and especially Muslims, in response to rituals involving the killing of animals for meat.
“His advocacy for animals went hand in hand with Islamophobia,” he wrote Le Monde. “In a letter published by a far-right magazine To presentBardot raised the alarm about Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday marked by ritual animal slaughter.
Bardot was a supporter of Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and once described her daughter and political heir Marine as a modern-day Joan of Arc.Credit: access point
Bardot wrote in that letter: “They are slaughtering women, children, our priests, civil servants, tourists, sheep, and one day they will slaughter us too.”
Bardot was convicted six times in French courts for inciting racial hatred, but she insisted she was not “essentially racist”. After being indicted for comments in his animal rights book in 2004 Cri dance of silence (A Cry in Silence), a teary-eyed Bardot said: “I never knowingly wanted to hurt anyone. It’s not in my character. If I hurt anyone, I’m sorry.”
In a 2014 interview, Bardot claimed that her concerns were not racial or right-wing. “I am a woman who advocates for animals left, right and center,” she said. “Animals are not political.”
But she sparked outrage in 2019 when, through the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, she wrote to the government of Reunion, a French protectorate on the east coast of Africa, to complain about animal hunting practices.
Bardot was an icon of women’s liberation, but she was also a critic of the #MeToo movement.
“The natives have preserved their wild genes,” he wrote to the island’s governor. He added that the island had a “degenerate population still clinging to the barbaric traditions with which it was rooted.”
Of course, he wasn’t the only cultural icon with a deep interest in animals and right-wing views. Similar accusations were leveled at singer Morrissey, the former lead singer of the Smiths, who in 2015 condemned Bardot’s plan to cull 2 million feral cats because of the danger they posed to Australia’s native wildlife. A onetime supporter of Nigel Farage noted on his Instagram account overnight that “an extraordinary woman has passed away”.
Bardot Caused more outrage in 2018 When he called the #MeToo movement “hypocritical and ridiculous.”
“Many actresses try to fool the producers to get a role. Then we will talk about them, they say they were harassed,” she said. Paris Match. His comments came a week later Catherine Deneuve, Another famous French beauty, who rose to fame in the 1960s, made similar comments.
Some of these could be described as the helpful behavior of a woman who is adept at attracting attention. But his penchant for ruthless disregard also extended to his most private interactions.
In his memoirs in 1996 Initials: BBReferring to her pregnancy with her only child, Nicolas, Bardot described him as a “cancerous tumor” in the womb and said she repeatedly punched herself in the stomach and asked for morphine from her doctor to abort the child.
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She also claimed at a press conference following the birth of her son that she would “rather give birth to a little dog.”
It may have been intended as a bold revelation of postpartum depression or an admission of a lack of maternal instinct, but Nicolas (and his father, Jacques Charrier) saw no redeeming qualities in her prose. They filed a defamation lawsuit in 1997 and won.
The power of his image remained long after he left the screen. And the name Brigitte Bardot will undoubtedly resonate for some time to come, for all the right and wrong reasons.
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