Bardot

Margaret Thatcher, Aristotle Onassis, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot, John Wayne, The Beatles, Isabella Rossellini, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. What do they all have in common? They have all spent time at the Astir Palace hotel. Indeed the list of all the famous figures who have stayed here is much longer than this, and it's bound to get longer soon.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's (SNFCC) Park Your Cinema program, bringing classic films of world cinema to the Athenian public, gets under way on Friday, August 4, with Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 drama "Le mepris" (Contempt), starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance and Giorgia Moll.

Just a few weeks before the French elections in April, the legendary star Brigitte Bardot stated once again her active support for the right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen.

Anna Ewers posed for Patrick Demarchelier and the UK June issue of Vogue, wearing lovely bikinis and posing by the seaside.

The 25 year old German model, known to many as her country’s version of Brigitte Bardot, is one of the up-and-risers of the fashion industry worldwide.