Saint-Tropez's most famous resident, French screen siren Brigitte Bardot, has slammed the Riviera resort as a billionaires' playground where "nothing remains of what made it charming".

The 91-year-old made one of her most famous films, "And God Created Woman", in the Mediterranean port town to which she retreated in 1973 after turning her back on her film career.

In a new book, published in French as "Mon BBcedaire" ("My BB Alphabet"), she laments the loss of "such a pretty fishing village" that has become "a billionaires' town where nothing remains of what made it charming".

The withering criticism of her adopted home, whose image of glitz and glamour she helped create, is in keeping with the acid tone of the book, which also includes homophobic and anti-transgender comments.

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