On Sunday, Dec. 28, a statement from Bardot’s animal rights foundation announced her death.
“The Brigitte Bardot Foundation pays tribute to the memory of an exceptional woman who gave everything and gave up everything for a world more respectful of animals,” the statement, initially shared with the news agency, Agence France-Presse, read, per NPR. “Her legacy lives on through the actions and struggles the Foundation continues with the same passion and the same fidelity to her ideals.”
Details about the time and place of her death were not revealed, nor was Bardot’s official cause of death.
In the late ’50s and ’60s, she earned the nickname “Sex Kitten” and was best known for the 1956 film And God Created Woman. She also notably starred in movies like The Truth (1960), Love on a Pillow (1962), Contempt (1963), and many others. Bardot drew massive crowds to theaters and helped make foreign films popular with Americans during a time when Hollywood prohibited nudity and honest talk of sex.
Following her fame as an actress, model, fashion icon, and singer, Bardot focused her attention on animal rights.
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men, and now I am giving my wisdom and experience, the best of me, to animals,” she said at a 1987 auction of her memorabilia to raise money for the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, per CNN.
Bardot was married four times—to Roger Vadim (1952–1957), Jacques Charrier (1959–1963), Gunter Sachs (1966–1969), and Bernard d’Ormale (1992–2025). Additionally, she was romantically linked with famous men such as Warren Beatty, Nino Ferrer, and Serge Gainsbourg. She had one son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, with whom she had a distant and strained relationship.
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