{"id":338623,"date":"2026-03-20T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338623\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:15:06","slug":"former-bond-girl-ursula-andress-claims-adviser-stole-millions-from-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338623\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bond girl Ursula Andress claims adviser stole millions from her"},"content":{"rendered":"
Andress told Blick she\u2019s always been a down-to-earth woman, who never lost touch with reality despite her fame.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike all Swiss people, I\u2019ve worked hard and always saved my money. I hoped to spend my final years happily and peacefully. And now this happens \u2013 I\u2019ve been disgustingly cheated. I hope the perpetrators are punished to the full extent of the law. I\u2019m devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freymond also worked for 24 years as a wealth manager for the billionaire Nicolas Puech, a descendant and major shareholder of the fashion house Hermes, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n
Ursula Andress attends the Gala of Bern in her honour celebrating 50 years of the James Bond films, 2012. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Puech later alleged Freymond played a role in embezzling US$15 billion ($25.4b) worth of Hermes shares.<\/p>\n
Freymond was hit by a train and died July 2025. His death was treated as a suspected suicide. He was 67.<\/p>\n
Freymond is accused of transferring Andress\u2019 money to a separate account, then purchasing artwork belonging to his wife throughout 2024, Blick reported.<\/p>\n
Andress is now in possession of artwork of dubious origin and worth.<\/p>\n
Her management said the fraud was exceptional in scale and complexity, \u201cinvolving numerous actors and structures, she was deprived of a large portion of her assets, resulting in significant damage\u201d.<\/p>\n
Since the 1950s, Andress has split her time between Rome and Gstaad, a resort town in the Swiss Alps, reported Hello! Magazine.<\/p>\n
The actress told Blick since the theft she was struggling with anxiety and sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis feeling of helplessness is unbearable \u2013 it\u2019s killing me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andress told Blick she\u2019s always been a down-to-earth woman, who never lost touch with reality despite her fame.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[181234,6876,6935,181232,6867,2562,156,1644,2740,181233,71,6868,1364,424,93,1132,4380,1432,111,139,69,4578,1346,90578,181231],"class_list":["post-338623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-388m","tag-actress","tag-adviser","tag-andress","tag-bond","tag-claims","tag-entertainment","tag-financial","tag-former","tag-francs","tag-from","tag-girl","tag-her","tag-life","tag-manager","tag-million","tag-millions","tag-model","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-savings","tag-stole","tag-swiss","tag-ursula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}