How Much is Brigitte Bardot Worth?
This autumn “femme fatale” Brigitte Bardot is going to celebrate her 83th birthday. She did a lot to that age mark: she has become a movie star, a legend, a main sex symbol of 1960s. When BB reached her career peak, she unexpectedly announced about the end of her career in entertainment industry. Now Brigitte avoids public events and TV shows. She devotes her life to animals’ protection. Brigitte Bardot net worth is estimated at $45 million. How did she earn that wealth and what does she do now to remain rich?
The main source of Brigitte wealth was her job of an actress. The beautiful blonde actress started from a modest salary, but then she played the main part in a contradictory movie “And God Created Woman”, and it made her the internationally popular star and the legend of her generation. After that BB’s earnings pumped up and she began to accumulate her wealth.
Brigitte Bardot Salary for Some of her Movies by Year:
And God Created Woman | $15, 000 |
La Parisienne | $25, 000 |
In Case of Adversity | $75, 000 |
Come Dance with Me! | $200, 000 |
Viva Maria! | $350, 000 |
Alongside acting, Brigitte made her living as a model too. The well-known sex symbol, she was a desirable celebrity for numerous magazines. It served as the powerful source of her income.
Bardot was talented as a singer, and she managed to monetize that skill too. She has recorded about 60 songs, which gained certain popularity.
In 1973 the beauty announced the end of her career. Currently she doesn’t care about money and devotes her free time to caring about animals. She created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, the aim of which is to protect the animals. For now Brigitte considers her foundation as the best thing she did in her life.
Bardot authored several books, which were sold all over the world. The selling of her literary works brings the star some income, but she didn’t think about money, when she was writing them. Currently BB is much more interested in her social activity. She tries to make the world better. For one of her books, “A Cry in the Silence”, she was prosecuted for inciting racial hatred.