Hollywood costume designer names vile A-Listers including pervert James Bond star, slob female sitcom icon… and details the hilarious evil of Shannen Doherty

His last interview triggered outrage after he called Audrey Hepburn the crudest word in the English language – but Jean-Pierre Dorléac is in no mood to keep quiet.

The acclaimed Hollywood costume designer, 82, has now named even more Hollywood monsters in his latest chat with the Daily Mail. 

This time, though, Dorléac has also insisted on heaping praise on movie stars he said were worthy of his kind words. 

Dorléac is likely to shock Hollywood with his claim that Patrick Macnee, the late star of The Avengers and James Bond movie A View To A Kill, was a closet-case and a pervert.

The costume designer says Macnee heaped praise on him for the white-gold outfit Dorléac designed for the star’s 1978 guest spot on TV series Battlestar Galactica – only to then grow rather too familiar during a dressing room fitting session.

Dorléac recalled: ‘There was a knock at the door and there was Patrick Macnee. “Hello, I’m Patrick. How are you? My, what a lad you are. I never get a lad like you to do my clothes. It’s usually some fat, ugly old woman.”

‘He started taking off his clothes, and he said, “I just don’t know how to thank you for making this for me…” said Dorléac, who has written a memoir called The Naked Truth.

‘He got down to his shorts, his underwear, and I’m in alone with this guy, and he sort of comes close to me, and he pulls them down, and he pulls out his old swan and  started shaking it around. 

‘He says, “So, well, what do you think of this?”, Dorléac continued. 

‘Oh. I was flummoxed, and I studied, and I said, “To be honest with you, it looks like you dropped your little dill pickle from your salad and it landed in your lap.”

‘He says, “Well, not when I’m through.”

Dorléac said Macnee then began performing a sex act on himself and pleaded with the costume designer to join in – only for Dorléac to refuse.

Thankfully, the alleged sexual assault was interrupted a few moments later when a tailor arrived to help adjust the costume, Dorléac said. 

The actor was outraged at being turned down, Dorléac said: ‘He struggled to pull up his pants, and he put on the suit, and he was pissed as hell. 

‘He just pouted all the way through the fitting.’ Dorléac said, before revealing that Macnee’s costume was cut to shreds with scissors by a mystery vandal shortly afterwards. 

Universal, the studio behind Battlestar Galactica, was forced to spend $6,000 on eight emergency tailors to remake the costume at short notice, Dorléac said.

‘He was just a major a**hole, and he never spoke to me thereafter, and they never hired him to work at Universal ever again.’ Macnee – who was raised by a lesbian mother and married three times – died in 2015 aged 93. 

Kirstie Alley was another nightmare, according to Dorléac – although the late Cheers star’s main issues were her weight, booze and food.

‘Kirstie was very crude and very brassy and coarse, irresponsible, never on time, a mess, a constant mess,’ said Dorléac, who worked with the actress three times

‘We had to clean her her uniform. She was supposed to be a travel agent in a series called Masquerade with Rod Taylor, and she sweated so badly because she drank.’

Dorléac recalled one shocking incident where the greedy star managed to destroy an expensive outfit with a trip to a snacking table.  

‘I had a pearl pink angora sweater made for her the tune of $350,’ he said. 

‘It was a stunning thing for a scene where she had a major line delivery to do, and about three minutes before she did the scene, she went to the craft table service and picked up this great big chocolate donut and accidentally, supposedly, dropped it down the front of her dress.

‘There was nothing but this big streak of chocolate through her breast all the way down to her belly button. 

‘We frantically reached for the wipe to clean it off, but couldn’t. 

‘The chocolate had completely stained the dress. We eventually had to throw the dress away. All that money, and it wasn’t even ever filmed. 

‘Oh no. And she did that over and over again, plus she was constantly gaining weight, and she was always rude.’ 

Alley died in 2022 aged 71. 

Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty, who died of cancer in July 2024 aged 53, was followed by accusations of difficult behavior throughout her career.

Dorléac confirmed that she was indeed a nightmare to work with.

But he managed a laugh at the sheer ingenuity of of a scheme Doherty dreamt up while filming A Burning Passion, a 1994 TV movie where she played Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell. 

‘I did her this blue suit,’ Dorléac said 

‘I always go to the set to establish the costume before it’s shot and make certain everything was right, I said, “Oh, Shannen it just turned out to be so wonderful. It makes your eyes so blue.” And she goes, “Yeah, they are, aren’t they?”   

‘And the next day, we’re doing something else. And I put her in this tan outfit with this cream colored hat, and I go to the set to make sure everything’s okay, and I look at her, and her eyes are brown, and I don’t say anything. 

‘Then the next day, she’s doing something else, and it’s more of a vivid green, and her eyes are almost cat green, not hazel-y green, like mine or hers were originally.’

Dorléac said the third eye-color change prompted him to ask Doherty what was going on – only to suffer one of the Charmed actress’s notorious outbursts.

‘I said, “Your eyes are so green today.  How do you do this?”

‘She answered: “Just I’ll keep your f**king mouth shut. I’m doing this.”

‘I said, “What are you talking about?”

‘She says, “I hate this goddamn movie, and I don’t want to play this Margaret Mitchell. Jesus! Who wants to play an old cripple like Margaret Mitchell?”

‘I said, “So what are you up to?” She says, “Well, I’m hoping it’s gonna throw the film off, because one scene I have green eyes, another, blue eyes”.

Dorléac says Doherty hated the movie’s producer Renée Valente and concocted the scheme in a bid to make Valente look bad.

‘She was a very unhappy girl,’ he said of Doherty. 

‘She smoked constantly, she ate hardly anything. She was so tiny and thin. 

‘She swore like a workman. I mean, I’ve never seen anybody who had a filthier mouth than she did.’ 

Dorléac also took a dim view of golden age of Hollywood star Lana Turner, who died in 1995 aged 74. 

He told the Daily Mail that Turner was an indecisive ‘lush’ who was only able to function after glugging her special ‘cranberry juice’ that was mainly vodka. 

Amidst all the bad behavior, there was plenty of class and kindness too.

Dorléac adored Diane Keaton, who died last year aged 79, branding her a consummate pro on-set who was kind and friendly in her free time. 

‘She was the most lovely, charming lady in the world,’ he said after working with Keaton on a movie called The Only Thrill in 1997.  ‘And she was so generous.’

Dorléac said the late actress gave him one of her iconic men’s suits after he admired the garment – and even refused to take back $100 he found in one of its pockets. 

Henry Fonda was a gentleman, according to Dorléac, despite his status as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. 

‘He was the most wonderful, kind, gentle, appreciative and very, very professional man.’ 

Patricia Neal was also such a delight that she and Dorléac became lifelong friends. 

‘She was so sweet and so wonderful… so gracious,’ he recalled, revealing his softer side.