Former Bond girl Ursula Andress believes she was specifically targeted to be the victim of a scam that left her losing millions of her own fortune. The Swiss actor and former model rose to fame for having been the original Bond girl named Honey Ryder in 1962.
Andress’s fame in the ’60s led her to have impressive wealth, having first starred in Dr. Noand the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. She went on to appear in several film from She, The 10th Victim, The Blue Max, Red Sun, The Fifth Musketeer, and Class of the Titans. The former Bond girl is now “devastated” after her former manager tricked her into losing millions.
Speaking to the German news outlet, Blick, the 90-year-old actor was reportedly swindled out of roughly $21 million by her former manager, Eric Freymond. She adds that her age was a factor in the scam, and was “wooed” and “exploited” by Freymond.
“For eight years, I was courted and wooed,” she said. “They lied to me ruthlessly and exploited my goodwill and trust in a perfidious, even criminal, way to take everything from me.”
She adds that the experience has left her with “debilitating anxiety” and the feeling of “helplessness is unbearable.” As Andress filed a criminal complaint, including charges of embezzlement, she alleges that Freymond took her money and transferred it from the Lombard Odier bank to an account at the Vaud Notaries’ Association at Saanenbank.
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Andress also claims that Freymond used her money to purchase millions of artworks by his wife without her knowledge. Her management team filed a statement calling it a scheme of “exceptional scale” that had defrauded multiple actors and is under investigation by the Vaud cantonal judicial authorities. Andress also revealed the money was intended for her retirement.
The Bond actor isn’t the only one to have been reported to have been defrauded by Freymond. In 2024, it was suspected that Freymond also stole a $13 billion fortune from the Hermés heir Nicolas Puech. The Swiss court ultimately ruled he could not be held responsible despite having reportedly admitted to some of the charges in July 2025. Freymond died by suicide last year.
