Bardot died<\/a> in December aged 91. The proceeds from the auction will go to her animal welfare foundation and to Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, her only child.<\/p>\nFounded 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.<\/p>\n
Some 3,000 French and international bidders registered for the auction.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrigitte Bardot has once again proved to be a remarkable alchemist: she transformed about \u20ac50,000 in estimates into nearly \u20ac1m including fees,\u201d said the auctioneer, Alexandre Millon.<\/p>\n
Two dog collars, with an ID tag bearing Bardot\u2019s name and a telephone number, estimated at \u20ac30 for the pair, were sold for \u20ac9,400 to a Russian buyer.<\/p>\n
Bardot\u2019s widower has said her belongings should have been preserved as part of her legacy. Photograph: Urman Lionel\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
A self-portrait fetched nearly \u20ac40,000 while the typewriter she used to write an autobiography raised \u20ac4,634.<\/p>\n
Estimated at between \u20ac300 and \u20ac500, two of her guitars soared to \u20ac8,600 and \u20ac1,900, while three stuffed toys representing baby seals sold for nearly \u20ac2,200 .<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sale is the logical continuation of the one she herself organised in 1987 with her most precious belongings to create her foundation,\u201d Ghyslaine Calmels, the managing director of the Bardot Foundation, told AFP after the sale. \u201cToday, her fight continues through this auction.\u201d<\/p>\n
But two days before the auction Bardot\u2019s last husband, Bernard d\u2019Ormale, attacked it as a \u201cjoke\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are personal items,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy hold this sale? For the animals?\u201d He said it amounted to a \u201cdisrespect to Brigitte\u2019s memory\u201d.<\/p>\n
Her belongings should have been preserved as part of her legacy, he told AFP, adding that Bardot \u201cwould not have agreed to this sale\u201d.<\/p>\n
The foundation rejected the criticism, saying the auction had been approved by the board in June when the widower was its president.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Ormale said he had not understood the auction would involve such personal items.<\/p>\n
The dispute comes days after he was removed as head of the foundation, a role he had held since Bardot\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An auction of the French screen legend Brigitte Bardot\u2019s personal items fetched nearly \u20ac1m (\u00a3858,000, US$1.15m, A$1.61m) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}