A row over the inheritance of late screen legend Brigitte Bardot has intensified after a private letter was made public which appears to show her cutting off relations with her last partner.<\/p>\n
Dated November 2022 \u2013 three years before she died at her home in Saint Tropez \u2013 the hand-written note accuses Bernard de Chiara, her companion of more than 30 years, of “patiently destroying me day after day”.<\/p>\n
The leaked letter is a useful weapon for the other side in the Bardot legacy battle – the animal rights foundation that bears her name – which is accused by de Chiara of rushing to dispose of her estate without regard for friends and intimates.<\/p>\n
A week ago de Chiara, who is 85, was forced to leave the seaside house known as La Madrague which he shared with Bardot from the early 1990s. <\/p>\n
After being looked after financially by her for so many years, he is reported to possess neither a bank account nor a social security card.<\/p>\n
He was also furious after the Brigitte Bardot Foundation organised a sale in September of household objects mainly taken from the late actress’s Paris flat. The sale raised nearly \u20ac1m (\u00a3835,000), shared between the Foundation and Bardot’s only son Nicolas Charrier.<\/p>\n
“I found it extraordinary that just a few months after Brigitte’s death, they already wanted to make a souvenir out of her. I did not appreciate that one bit,” de Chiara said.<\/p>\n
In the letter, which begins “Bernard, it’s a failure!”, Bardot said she had given “everything” in the hope of finding a “companion would could offer back my love, share my joys and immense sorrows… who is happy at the life I am giving him.”<\/p>\n
But she concluded: “Today I have reached the end-point of my distress… I am so in need of a shoulder, a support, a tenderness, a presence \u2013 which you are incapable of giving.”<\/p>\n
Widely known under the adopted name d’Ormale (a pun on the French dort mal \u2013 sleeps badly), de Chiara was a businessman and one-time associate of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A row over the inheritance of late screen legend Brigitte Bardot has intensified after a private letter was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-824164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824164","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=824164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}