Germany playboy GunterSachs kills himself aged 78

Gunter Sachs - the German-born billionaire, art collector and former husband of Brigitte Bardot - has killed himself at the age of 78.

Sachs's family said he shot himself at his chalet in the Swiss resort of Gstaad on Saturday.

A grandson of car manufacturer Adam Opel, Sachs's wealth helped him to become him a prominent member of the glamorous 1960s "jet set".

Sachs was married three times and had three children. He also had a relationship with Iranian queen Soraya Esfandiary in the early 1960s.

Born in southern Germany, Sachs trained in maths and economics before becoming a Swiss citizen in 1976.

A noted photographer who won several awards for his documentary films, he was also an avid art collector with a keen interest in astrology.

Sachs and Bardot married in Las Vegas in 1966, a few weeks afterthey first met. The marriage lasted just over three years.

Hours after meeting her, Sachs arranged for a helicopter to fly over her house in southern France and drop hundreds of red roses.

"It's not every day that aman drops a tonne of roses in your yard," the actress later wrote.

A spokesman for Bardot's animal rights charity said on Sunday she had been informed and was "devastated" by her ex-husband's death.



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