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Brigitte Bardot and Bernard d'Ormal, pictured here in 2000

ByHugh Schofieldin Paris
  • Published23 minutes ago

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.

Dated November 2022 – three years before she died at her home in Saint Tropez – the hand-written note accuses Bernard de Chiara, her companion of more than 30 years, of "patiently destroying me day after day".