We are all of us in the gutter. Some of us are looking at the stars:

For me, Brigitte Bardot will always be an iconic memory of love, a pre-Sixties sexual liberationista who was invented and mythologized by society, then clubbed to death by paparazzi (like the baby seals she made famous in her campaigns against animal cruelty).

The negative regard towards BB is well represented in other comments here, so I choose to focus on the positive. Like, here's a musical mention that illustrates all that I care to know about Brigitte Bardot:

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/pretenders/message-of-love

Message Of Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOV6ywJt7s

Notorious islamophobe, homophobe, transphobe, xenophobe, and loyal supporter of French far-right parties is what most French people know her for.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251228-bardot-leaves-co...

Many outlets — including this CNN piece which is making the passive voice work real hard to make her awfulness about other’s perception of it — are slinging hagiographies as if death absolves all.

Convicted six times for inciting racial hatred. What a legend.