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Bernard d’Ormale barred from Brigitte Bardot’s home in Saint-Tropez
Bernard d’Ormale says he can no longer enter the Madrague, Brigitte Bardot’s home in Saint-Tropez.
He says he lived there with Bardot for 34 years and was locked out after leaving to have coffee.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation says it is carrying out her wishes, which it says were set down before a notary.
Those wishes required people living at the house to leave within six months of her death.
The foundation owns the property and says d’Ormale’s role on its board while living there could create a conflict of interest.
D’Ormale says his belongings and medicines are still inside, and he is waiting to retrieve them.
The foundation’s stated next step is to enforce the six-month departure instruction, while the sources do not say when he will get his belongings.
Bernard d’Ormale says he was barred from returning to La Madrague, the Saint-Tropez home where he lived with Brigitte Bardot for 34 years.
He says the parking gate had been removed and replaced with a sign announcing work while he was away.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation says it is enforcing Bardot’s notarised instruction that people living at the property leave within six months of her death.
D’Ormale says he has not retrieved his belongings and that his medication remains inside the house.
Foundation president Max Guazzini says d’Ormale’s continued residence there could create a conflict of interest.
- Who
- Bernard d’Ormale, Bardot’s widower, and the Brigitte Bardot Foundation.
- What
- D’Ormale says he was prevented from entering La Madrague. The Foundation says it is applying Bardot’s last wishes.
- When
- October 2026, ten months after Bardot’s death.
- Where
- La Madrague, Bardot’s home in Saint-Tropez, France.
- Why
- The Foundation says Bardot instructed that people living there leave within six months of her death.
Bernard d’Ormale
Brigitte Bardot Foundation
Access to La Madrague
Bernard d’Ormale
He says he was unexpectedly locked out and has not retrieved his belongings or medication.
Brigitte Bardot Foundation
It says it is enforcing Bardot’s wishes that residents leave within six months of her death.
His continued residence
Bernard d’Ormale
He says he does not want to leave the home where he lived with Bardot.
Brigitte Bardot Foundation
Guazzini says his staying there could create a conflict of interest and expose the Foundation to legal risk.
Brigitte Bardot died at the age of 91.
D’Ormale says he left La Madrague at about 2 p.m. and returned around 5 p.m. to find the parking gate removed and a work sign in its place.
Paris Match reported that the Foundation barred d’Ormale from entering and said it was following Bardot’s notarised instructions.
- Home
- La Madrague, Saint-Tropez
- Time lived there
- 34 years
- Bardot’s death
- December 28, 2025, aged 91
- Foundation president
- Max Guazzini
- Instruction cited by the Foundation
- Residents should leave within six months of Bardot’s death
3 sources
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What people are saying
I could no longer get in.
This is scandalous, it’s a joke.
She stated before a notary that the people living at La Madrague should leave within six months of her death.
By keeping Bernard d’Ormale at La Madrague, we risk being indicted.