AUDREY HEPBURN'S Swiss Escape

FOR 30 YEARS, THE BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S STAR ENJOYED HER PRIVATE LIFE IN A RURAL VILLAGE

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Once her 60th birthday in 1989, Audrey Hepburn’s dear friend, designer Hubert de Givenchy, sent her 60 white rose bushes to be planted in her garden in Tolochenaz, Switzerland. “Half of those are still there,” Katharina Beaujolin, who recently put Audrey’s former home La Paisible on the market for $21 million, told Bloomberg.

From 1963 when the Breakfast at Tiffany’s star purchased it until her death in 1993, the estate, which sits behind a stone wall on a well-traveled street of the French-speaking village, was her beloved retreat. “When I had to go to school and could no longer travel to be with her on the set, she gave up her career and became a full-time mom,” her eldest son Sean Hepburn Ferrer, whose father is actor Mel Ferrer, tells