Known for her role in the “La Boum” trilogy, the actress confided on the set of “Chez Jordan” (C8) how she found herself caught up in taxes after spending her biggest salary.
Brigitte Fossey became known in the 1970s and 1980s, when she took on the role of the mother of the heroine of the cult saga The party. Guest on the set of At Jordan’son C8, the 76-year-old French actress looked back on her career, and especially on the wages she earned. She explained how her resourcefulness and luck helped her sort out a debt, contracted after having spent its largest cachet.
When asked by Jordan de Luxe, when she had earned her highest salary, she replied after some hesitation: “I really believe it was on an American film that I did. A film by Jeannot Szwarc called Enigma with Sam Neill and Martin Sheen [sorti en 1982, NDLR].” A stamp that she spent lavishly, by investing in a studio. But Brigitte Fossey forgot a slight detail: “You know what I did? I bought a studio with the stamp and I forgot that I had to keep something to pay my taxes… I was not a very good manager”she admits in the interview reported by Tele-Leisure.
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If she spent her salary a little quickly, Brigitte Fossey is no less clever. To get by, the French actress “[est allée] see the tax guy”. “I told him ‘I had forgotten the taxes!’ SO I had to pay monthly, monthly for two years…“. But another opportunity also helps him settle his debt: “Above all, I was lucky becauseat that time, Serge Gainsbourg asked me to advertise for ‘Woolite'”, she says. At the time, the singer shot advertising clips for the brand of detergent, where he notably played Brigitte Fossey, Jane Birkin and Marlène Jobert. What to refloat the bank account of the actress.