Brigitte Bardot Was Married to 4th Husband, Bernard d'Ormale, at Time of Death

French cinema icon Brigitte Bardot was married four times and divorced three times, but her fourth marriage lasted until her death at age 91.

Bardot was married to Bernard d'Ormale when she passed away after a hospitalization on December 28. d'Ormale was linked to a controversial politician, and Bardot's own comments over the years about Muslims and gays resulted in fines, BBC reported, describing d'Ormale as "a former adviser to the late far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen." People reported that Bardot "openly supported" Le Pen's movement, causing controversy.

Brigitte Bardot Said She Was Looking for 'Companionship' After Divorce Number 3

Bardot made it clear in an interview what she was looking for in a fourth husband. She married d'Ormale in 1992, and he was her longest marriage, according to People.

“My dream would be the solitude of two. I would like to marry for the last time of my life. Right now, the best thing that could happen to me would be to live with a companion for the rest of my days,” she said, according to United Press International.

People described d'Ormale as a businessman and reported that he and Bardot stayed together until she died. According to the French language site Gala, he met Bardot at a dinner in Saint-Tropez.

"Born to an Australian mother, he spent part of his childhood and adolescence in South America," Gala reported. "A businessman, he began his career in Africa where he invested in various companies in a wide variety of sectors, textile industry, film industry or aviation." In her memoir, Bardot described their meeting as "mutual love at first sight," according to Gala.

Brigitte Bardot Was Also Married to Director Roger Vadim, Actor Jacques Charrier & German Millionaire Gunter Sachs

Bardot's first husband was the French movie director Roger Vadim. She once called him a "wild wolf," according to the BBC, saying, "He looked at me, scared me, attracted me, and I didn't know where I was anymore." Vadim "molded" Bardot into a star, putting her in his movie, And God Created Woman. They later divorced after she started a relationship with another actor.

In 1959, she married her second husband, the French actor and her co-star Jacques Charrier, with whom she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, from whom she was famously estranged.

Vadim discussed Bardot's affair with another actor, Jean Louis-Trintignant, telling Sydney Morning Herald, "I knew what was happening and rather expected it. I would always prefer to have that kind of wife, knowing she is unfaithful to me rather than possess a woman who just loved me and no one else … I wanted … a woman with a sense of adventure and sexual curiosity." According to People, Bardot later left Trintignant after having an affair on him as well.

Bardot was also married to the German millionaire Gunter Sachs. When he died in 2011, The Telegraph reported, "Gunter Sachs, who committed suicide at his chalet in Gstaad on Saturday aged 78, was a multi-millionaire German playboy, scion of the Opel motor dynasty, European bobsleigh champion of 1958 and the third husband of Brigitte Bardot."

Sachs was "known in his heyday by the nickname 'Sexy,' Sachs, who boasted of 'never having worked a day in my life,'" and "was one of Europe’s most energetic playboys," Telegraph reported. Although she had an affair while married to him too, Sachs once said, according to People, "A year with Bardot was worth 10 with anyone else.”

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