Saint-Tropez, south-eastern France, before the funeral of cinema icon Brigitte Bardot, on January 7, 2026. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP
Well-wishers gathered in Brigitte Bardot's hometown of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday, January 7, for the funeral of the French screen icon as her husband revealed she had died from cancer. The reclusive star of the 1950s and 60s is set to be buried at her family's Mediterranean seaside grave later in the day, after dying, aged 91, at her home on December 28.
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Brigitte Bardot, global film icon and champion of animal rights, has died
Ahead of a church service, which is set to begin at 11:00 am (1000 GMT), her husband Bernard d'Ormale revealed the cause of death for the first time. She had dealt "very well" with two operations for an unspecified cancer before the disease "took her," d'Ormale told Paris Match magazine in an interview about their life together.
