'You have patiently destroyed me': Brigitte Bardot's leaked letter reveals why she cut her husband out of her will

Bernard d'Ormale, 85, the last husband of French cinema legend Brigitte Bardot, has been left nothing in her will despite more than three decades together, after a devastating handwritten letter she sent him in 2022 was leaked to Le Figaro. Bardot, who died in December 2025 aged 91, wrote that she desperately needed love, company and tenderness — things she said d'Ormale was "simply incapable" of giving her. Her fortune has instead been split between her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, 66, and her animal protection foundation.

D'Ormale has been evicted from their Saint-Tropez home, La Madrague, and is now living in a council flat.

His lawyer says he was "treated deplorably"; the foundation insists he has been "well-supported."

The letter alone cannot settle the bitter legal dispute over Bardot's estate, with d'Ormale insisting he wanted a compromise and claiming: 'They're trying to erase me.'