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Thee auction of her personal belongings fetched almost 20 times its estimate. Photograph: Duclos/AP     (brigitte-bardot-auction-paris-animal-welfare.html#img-1)   View image in fullscreen       Brigitte Bardot in Paris in 1982. Thee auction of her personal belongings fetched almost 20 times its estimate. Photograph: Duclos/AP       (https://www.theguardian.com/film/brigitte-bardot) Brigitte Bardot     Brigitte Bardot’s personal items sell for nearly €1m at auction in Paris   Dog collars, guitars and self-portraits among 285 objects, with money going to her animal welfare foundation and son         Guardian staff and Agence France-Presse   Tue 22 Sep 2026 03.14 EDT  First published on Mon 21 Sep 2026 20.27 EDT   (mailto:?subject=Brigitte Bardot’s personal items sell for nearly €1m at auction in Paris&body=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/22/brigitte-bardot-auction-paris-animal-welfare?CMP=share_btn_url) Share          (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) Prefer the Guardian on Google          An auction of the French film star turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot’s personal items has fetched nearly €1m (£858,000, US$1.15m, A$1.61m) in Paris, almost 20 times the estimate, according to the auction house Millon. A total of 285 objects were auctioned, ranging from straw hats, sunglasses and nightgowns to tableware and furniture from Bardot’s homes in Paris and Saint-Tropez, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.  (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/28/brigitte-bardot-french-screen-legend-and-animal-rights-activist-dies) Bardot, who died in December aged 91, retired from acting in the 1970s and became an outspoken campaigner for animal rights. She also became (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/28/brigitte-bardot-image-support-of-far-right) increasingly active politically on the far right, alienating some fans in her later life with her hardline views on immigration. Bardot was convicted five times for hate speech, particularly about Muslims, and up until her death she expressed her pleasure at the rising share of the vote gained by the anti-immigration National Rally party. The proceeds from the auction will go to her animal welfare foundation and to Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, her only child. Founded by the actor in 1986, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation says it has taken in 13,000 animals through four shelters and 150 partner facilities, supports 350 groups in France and operates in 70 countries. About 3,000 French and international bidders registered for the auction. “Brigitte Bardot has once again proved to be a remarkable alchemist: she transformed about €50,000 in estimates into nearly €1m, including fees,” the auctioneer Alexandre Millon said. Two dog collars, with an ID tag bearing Bardot’s name and a telephone number, estimated at €30 for the pair, sold for €9,400 to a Russian buyer.       (A nude portrait of Bardot is held up)   (brigitte-bardot-auction-paris-animal-welfare.html#img-2)   View image in fullscreen       Bardot’s widower has said her belongings should have been preserved as part of her legacy. Photograph: Urman Lionel/ABACA/Shutterstock  A self-portrait fetched nearly €40,000 while the typewriter she used to write an autobiography raised €4,634. Estimated at between €300 and €500, two of her guitars soared to €8,600 and €1,900, while three stuffed toys representing baby seals sold for nearly €2,200. “This sale is the logical continuation of the one she herself organised in 1987 with her most precious belongings to create her foundation,” Ghyslaine Calmels-Bock, the managing director of the Bardot Foundation, told AFP after the sale. “Today, her fight continues through this auction.” Two days before the auction Bardot’s last husband, Bernard d’Ormale, deescribed it as a “joke”. “These are personal items,” he said. “Why hold this sale? For the animals?” He said it amounted to a “disrespect to Brigitte’s memory”. Her belongings should have been preserved as part of her legacy, he told AFP, adding that Bardot “would not have agreed to this sale”. The foundation rejected the criticism, saying the auction had been approved by the board in June when the widower was its president. D’Ormale said he had not understood the auction would involve such personal items. The dispute comes days after he was removed as head of the foundation, a role he had held since Bardot’s death.         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