Gunter Sachs, a wealthy German-born art collector who was fodder for gossip columns in the 1960s for his playboy antics and his brief marriage to Brigitte Bardot, died on Saturday at his home in the Swiss Alpine resort of Gstaad. He was 78. His family said Mr. Sachs, who had an incurable degenerative disease, committed suicide. In a suicide note...
PARIS -- Of all the places to part with fistfuls of money in St.-Tropez, few have more cachet than Le Club 55. Perched on the white stretches of Pampelonne, one of the Côte d'Azur's most stunning beaches, Le Club offers a private patch of sand where habitués can pay around $255 a day to rent a couple of lounge chairs with an umbrella and enjoy a...
Diana Dors: 1956 All eyes -- and lenses -- were on the sex kitten as she walked the plank wearing a bedazzled onesie and a smile. Edy Williams: Circa 1980 The pneumatic beauty, who has been stripping at Cannes since the 1970s, would occasionally cover up. Brigitte Bardot : 1955 Just 20 and then unknown to American audiences, Bardot, later known as...
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (født 28. september 1934 i Paris) er en fransk skuespillerinde og lejlighedsvis sangerinde. Hun blev en meget feteret kvindeskikkelse i medierne, indtil hun som ca. 40-årig trak sig tilbage fra filmen og påtog sig at forsvare dyrenes sag (babysæler mm.)
BB, som hun blev kaldt, var en af de mest eksponerede filmstjerner i 1950'erne, især efter filmen Gud skabte kvinden (fransk titel: Et Dieu créa la femme), som vakte en del postyr og forargelse. Instruktion: Roger Vadim, 1956.
Brigitte Bardot er bosat i Sydfrankrig og har de senere år gjort sig bemærket ved sin modstand mod Islam, indvandring og homoseksuelle. Hun er flere gange blevet dømt for racistiske og diskriminerende udtalelser.