Claudia Cardinale leaves an immense heritage in the cinema. Starting at the age of 87, she illuminated the big screen of her talent and her beauty, rubbing shoulders with the greatest artists. Her end of life, she spent it with her two children in a building with undeniable charm. His daughter confided in this subject with Purepeople a few months before his departure.
The cinema has lost one of its icons. Italian actress Claudia Cardinale died at the age of 87 on September 23, 2025, making her last breath in Nemours, in the south of the Ile-de-France region, surrounded by her two children, her daughter also named Claudia whose father is her great love, the director Pasquale Squieri, and Patrick. The latter is a child born when she was 17 years old and she has long hidden this birth, passing her for her little brother. Two people with whom the actress transformed the home in which she lost her life to make a place of life to any other.
The one who gave the reply to Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon had withdrawn since 2019 in Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne. She had chosen to live in an old tannery that has become a family refuge, a house with discreet charm. The building, located on the edge of the Loing, was masked behind a dense grid and vegetation. After being an 18th century tannery, then a rest house for priests, she then became the property of a famous local family.
Claudia Cardinale discovers this rare pearl by chance. Her daughter, who was with her on the day of her discovery, had confided with emotion on Purepeople last April on this subject: “It is a house that offered to us a little by chance, she said. We were looking for something little, and we came across this magnificent building, hidden from looks. We fell in love. It’s been years that I started to come to the south of the Seine Weekends, to find a little calm away from Paris. Residences and who works in collaboration with the Museo November in Florence and the Château-Musée de Nemours. ”
The Nemours house of Claudia Cardinale, a real refuge
The legendary actress’s daughter who inherited her features notably underlines that Nemours has the immense advantage of being located at an hour from Paris, which makes it possible to remain close to the cultural heart of France, while being far from the frenzy of the capital. “We have refounded a little here, after years of Parisian life in apartments, the big Italian house we had when I grew up, the house in which my mother lived a large part of her life, at the gates of Rome,” she adds.
This house, bought just before the covid, has also become the refuge of Patrick, the half-brother of Claudia. A family household therefore. “We all live there together,” explains the daughter of the one who replied to Alain Delon in the cheetah. My mother, who celebrates her 87th birthday this April 15, is very happy not to live alone in Paris. She has her independent apartment here. Me, I am there, my brother is there, there are people, we have tenants, friends who came to live here. ” This is where the actress decides to move there with her children during the COVVI-19 crisis. This house, now known as the Picardy, also hosts a restaurant with Italian flavors worn by Brazilian chef Tiago Alves. “Mom lives here all year round. She goes shopping for the restaurant every day by car. Certainly, she does not drive, does not work anymore. But she remains very active,” said her daughter recently. A free and happy woman until her last breath.
