Overview
- Millon held the auction at Hotel Drouot on Monday and sold roughly 285 lots from Bardot’s Paris and Saint‑Tropez homes for nearly one million euros, far above pre-sale estimates.
- Proceeds were designated to benefit the Fondation Brigitte Bardot and Bardot’s only son, Nicolas‑Jacques Charrier, with Millon reporting about 3,000 registered bidders from France and abroad.
- Lots included personal and career items such as Repetto ballet flats, a Mellerio diamond ring, guitars, the Olivetti typewriter Bardot used for her autobiography and a copy of the Kama Sutra, with many pieces selling well above their estimates.
- Bernard d’Ormale, Bardot’s last husband, denounced the sale as disrespectful and says he was excluded from the will and removed from the foundation’s leadership, while the foundation says the board approved the auction in June when d’Ormale was president.
- The sale highlights a wider tension between preserving a cultural icon’s home and archive and using movable items to fund charity work, and it may prompt further debate about how Bardot’s houses and personal collections should be managed going forward.