Brigitte Bardot's disinherited widower was 'caught on camera stashing away her personal items' it is claimed amid row over the actress's will

The disinherited final husband of Brigitte Bardot was caught on security cameras stashing away her personal belongings including 'gold coins, jewellery and guitar', it emerged today.The latest revelations about Bernard d'Ormale, 85, are part of an increasingly poisonous saga focused on the French cinema icon's will.When she died in December, at the age of 91, she left him nothing, despite their many decades living together.Ms Bardot, once an international sex symbol who starred in 45 movies, even left a note in which she said of Mr d'Ormale: 'You have patiently destroyed me, day after day, for 30 years.'Now, a source close to the case told the BFM TV news channel in Paris on Tuesday that 'Bernard has a keen instinct for preservation and survival', and was filmed stashing valuable items away at La Madrague , the Mediterranean seaside villa the couple shared in St Tropez.Mr d'Ormale is now living in a council flat in the glitzy resort town after being evicted from the house, and he last month expressed his fury over an auction that sold off many of Ms Bardot's possessions.But the source said: 'The cameras at La Madrague caught him [Bernard d'Ormale] with bags full of mementos.'These included Ms Bardot's 'gold coins, jewellery and guitar', and he even hid her Mini Moke car, it is alleged.Late movie star Brigitte Bardot died in December, at the age of 91, and left her husband nothing in her will, despite their many decades living together Brigitte Bardot pictured with her husband of thirty years Bernard d'Ormale 'He stashed everything he could get his hands on,' said a former friend of Ms Bardot.In turn, Mr d'Ormale said he was simply putting items away for safe keeping.He told BFM: 'Do you think Brigitte would have lived for 35 years with a thief and a liar?'I am also the guardian of her memory. It breaks my heart to see her entire life being scattered. It's appalling, scandalous, one-sided.'Ms Bardot began learning how to play the guitar in 1958, while filming La Femme et le Pantin [The Woman and the Puppet] in Spain, and her beloved instruments would be worth a fortune today.When asked about being disinherited in Ms Bardot's will, Mr d'Ormale originally claimed: 'I was the one who told her I didn't want anything at all. I also refused any gift, because I didn't want people saying I took advantage of her.'But he later expressed huge sadness at being forced out of La Madrague, saying: 'I've lived there for thirty-five years and now I'm being kicked out – can you believe it?'Mr d'Ormale was also upset at being fired as president of his wife's animal charity, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. Ms Bardot recorded 70 songs as a pop singer before retiring from public life in 1973 There have been allegations that Mr d'Ormale's past career as an adviser to the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-Right National Front (FN for Front National) and a convicted racist and Holocaust denier, had made him enemies at the Foundation.Rather than Mr d'Ormale, all of Ms Bardot's estate is set to go to the Foundation, and to her only son, Nicolas Charrier, who is now 66.Mr d'Ormale's lawyer, Aurelie-Caroline Vieugue, said: 'We shouldn't forget that he's 85 years old, an elderly person.'He was treated deplorably by the foundation, worse than a criminal. You wonder why there's so much aggression towards a man who shared 33 years of his life with Madame Bardot. It really was a 33-year love story.'Ms Bardot and Mr d'Ormale had a religious wedding in Norway in 1992, but their marriage never held any legal validity in France.Beyond her films, Ms Bardot recorded 70 songs as a pop singer before retiring from public life in 1973.She met Mr d'Ormale through the FN, and her far-Right politics became increasingly controversial, and she was convicted and fined six times for inciting racial hatred, particularly against immigrants and Muslims, and residents of the French overseas territory of Réunion, whom she called 'degenerate savages'.Ms Bardot also had a long history of supporting the FN, which has since been renamed the National Rally.Ms Bardot was married four times – to film director Roger Vadim between 1952 and 1957, actor Jacques Charrier between 1959 and 1962, socialite Gunter Sachs (1966-1969), and then Mr d'Ormale.She also had a number of other high-profile relationships, including with the singer Serge Gainsbourg.Discussing the overall will dispute, a spokesman for the Brigitte Bardot Foundation said: 'All of our actions are guided by a scrupulous respect for the wishes expressed by Brigitte Bardot.'