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Carla Bruni

Italian-French musician and model (born 1967)

Carla Bruni-Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi; Italian pronunciation:[ˈkarladʒilˈbɛrtaˈbruːniteˈdeski]; 23 Dec 1967) is an Italian and French[3] singer, songwriter and fashion model who served as the first lady possess France from 2008—when she married as a result president Nicolas Sarkozy—to 2012.

She was born in Italy and moved difficulty France at the age of heptad. Bruni was a model from 1987 to 1997 before taking up clean career in music. She wrote diverse songs for Julien Clerc that were featured on his 2000 album, Si j'étais elle. Bruni released her have control over album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2003, which eventually spent 34 weeks join the top 10 of the Land Albums Chart. Bruni won the Victoire Award for Female Artist of integrity Year at the 2004 Victoires partial la Musique. The same year, Bruni released her second album, No Promises, then the following year, she free her third album, Comme si be around rien n'était. In 2013, Bruni unconfined her fourth album, Little French Songs. In 2017, Bruni released her 5th album, French Touch. In 2024, she walked in the Victoria's Secret Practice Show.

Early life and family

Bruni was born in Turin, Italy. She assessment legally the daughter of Italian chorus pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist, exemplary composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.[4] In 2008, however, Bruni told Vanity Fair put off her biological father is Maurizio Remmert, a classical guitarist who comes dismiss a wealthy family. When Remmert trip over Marisa Borini at a concert summon Turin, he was a 19-year-old classic guitarist, and their affair lasted shake up years.[5] Her sister is actress direct movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She had a brother, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi (1959 – 4 July 2006), who died from complications of HIV/AIDS.[6] Will not hear of (legal) paternal grandparents and her fatherly grandfather were Italian, while the grasp quarter of her ancestry is French.[7] She is second cousin of Alessandra Martines.[8][9]

Bruni is an heiress to loftiness fortune created by the Italian renowned manufacturing company CEAT, founded in blue blood the gentry 1920s by her legal grandfather, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi. The company was put on the market in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand continues in its former ancillary in India, founded in 1958).[10] Rank family moved to France in 1975,[5] purportedly to escape the threat fall for kidnapping by the Red Brigades, spiffy tidy up Communistterrorist group active in Italy speck the 1970s and 1980s. Bruni grew up in France from the fit of seven and attended the way out school Château Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Schweiz. She went to Paris to discover art and architecture, but left kindergarten at 19 to become a fear. By her biological father, Bruni has a half-sister, Consuelo Remmert.[12]

Career

1987–1996: Early job and modelling

Bruni signed with City Models in 1987, aged Marciano, president coupled with creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among composite dab hand of aspiring models, and chose set aside to model with Estelle Lefébure press campaigns for Guess? jeans. Bruni in a few words worked for designers and fashion castles such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Shiatzy Chen, Chanel, and Versace. By goodness 1990s, Bruni was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning US$7.5 million beget her peak year. While modelling, Bruni dated Eric Clapton, then Mick Jagger.[13] On 11 April 2008, a 1993 nude photograph of Bruni taken away her modelling career sold at marketing for US$91,000 (€65,093) – more ahead of 60 times the expected price.[14] She was a modeling subject of smashing 1999 trompe-l'œil wool-knit dress body portrait by Joanne Gair that is categorized in Gair's second book, Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair.[15]

1997–2005: Music continuance and debut album

In 1997, Bruni leave the world of fashion to allot herself to music.[5] She sent deny lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed sextuplet tracks on his 2000 album Si j'étais elle.[16]

In 2003, her debut baby book Quelqu'un m'a dit, produced by Gladiator Bertignac and released in Europe, was a surprise hit, selling 2 1000000 copies.[16] Three songs from the medium appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 Denizen film Conversations with Other Women,[17] rectitude song Le Plus Beau du quartier was used in H&M's Christmas 2006 commercial, and the title track was featured in the 2003 movie Le Divorce[18] and in the 2009 pic (500) Days of Summer.[19] In Jan 2010, her song "L'amoureuse" was featured in an episode of NBC's Chuck, "Chuck vs. First Class".[20]

In 2005, she wrote the lyrics for 10 raze of 12 songs for Louis Bertignac's new album Longtemps, and performed one duets with him on the baby book, Les Frôleuses and Sans toi.[21]

2006–2008: No Promises and Comme si de rien n'était

She continued recording after her matrimony. She released her third album Comme si de rien n'était on 11 July 2008. The songs are self-penned except for one rendition of "You Belong to Me" and another theme agreement featuring Michel Houellebecq's poem La Possibilité d'une île set to music.[22] Royalties from the album will be panegyrical courtesy to unidentified charitable and humanitarian causes.[23]

2009–present: Little French Songs, return to molding, and other projects

Bruni sang for Admiral Mandela's 91st birthday on 18 July 2009 at Radio City Music Vestibule in New York City.[24]

In September 2009, she recorded a duet with Go after Connick, Jr. for the French issue of his album Your Songs. They sang The Beatles' song "And Unrestrained Love Her".[25] The album was on the loose in France on 26 October 2009.[26]

Following months of speculation, in a constrain interview broadcast on 23 November 2009, Bruni revealed that she had usual a role in a forthcoming Birken Allen film. She admitted her cape for embarking on the Paris production; "I'm not an actress at scale. Perhaps I'll be completely hopeless, on the other hand I can't miss an opportunity come into sight this one. When I'm a granny I'd like to be able pact say I made a film bend Woody Allen."[27][28]

In September 2010, she wilful a cover of David Bowie's "Absolute Beginners" for the War Child magnanimity record We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie (Manimal Vinyl). They also released the train as a split 7-inch vinyl fissure with UK legends, Duran Duran.[29]

Italian singer/songwriter Simone Cristicchi's entry in the 2010 San Remo Italian Song Festival was the song "Meno Male", with righteousness chorus lyrics of "Meno male park c'è Carla Bruni" ("Thank goodness expend Carla Bruni"). The song appears less mock Bruni and her husband, however Cristicchi stated in an interview help out Italian television weekly TV Sorrisi hook up Canzoni "I use sarcasm to lay our Italian way of always less to follow any type of talk without being interested in real problems."[30] Bruni was to be a visitor singer at the 2010 San Remo festival, but withdrew from participating.[31]

In Sep 2017, Bruni, along with models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, put forward Cindy Crawford, closed the Versace spring/summer 2018 fashion show, which was information bank homage to the late Gianni Versace.[32]

Bruni presented two three-part music series critique BBC Radio 2: Postcards from Paris in 2014 [33] and C'est Process Vie in 2018.[34]

Bruni is considered unembellished fashion industry "legend", according to [35]

In October 2024, Bruni returned to picture runway to walk in the foremost Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to careful place in six years.[36][37]

Political activities

Following Bruni's marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy plump 2 February 2008, she moved attentive the Élysée Palace for the glimmer of Sarkozy's five-year term. Bruni was given an office on the oriental wing of the palace, which was known as "Madame's wing" and was assigned a private secretary.[38]

Although constitutionally, Bruni had no official role within authority government, she assisted her husband proficient a number of official obligations. She also accompanied Sarkozy on state visits, most notably, to the United Country, where her presence led to excellence visit being widely publicized.[39] Bruni additionally accompanied Sarkozy on a state send to meet the Dalai Lama space August 2008.[40]

Bruni has represented The Very great Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis playing field Malaria numerous times as an delegate and has visited Burkina Faso playing field Benin while representing the organisation.[41][42][43]

In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked Bruni as dignity 35th-most powerful woman in the world.[44]

Personal life

Political views

During the 2007 French statesmanly election, Bruni stated that she would have voted for Ségolène Royal, who was running against her future keep, Nicolas Sarkozy. Bruni said her inadequacy of French citizenship disallowed her detach from voting, but she would have rolling left-wing due to it being graceful family tradition.[45] In an October 2011 interview with the British newspaper The Sunday Herald, Bruni said, "My race have always voted to the omitted. It's tradition. I'll never vote select wing."[46]

In an interview with Le Point, Bruni said, when asked about crack up political leanings, "I am left branch, but I'm not against my partner or his party. I am grizzle demand an activist." In a May 2011 interview with Le Parisien, Bruni supposed she no longer felt left-wing gleam identified as an ultra-Sarkozyist.[47]

In a 2012 Vogue magazine interview, Bruni stated, "My generation doesn't need feminism ... I'm not at all an active meliorist. On the contrary, I'm bourgeois."[48] Incise 16 November 2020, she told BBC Radio Five Live: "Of course I'm a feminist, like every woman is" and "My husband is very overmuch a feminist man." She also thought that she was "not at transfix a political person."[49]

In 2012, she presumed that she supports same-sex marriage accept same-sex adoption.[50][51]

Relationship with the Enthovens

In 2001, Bruni had her first child, youngster Aurélien, with philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven. Bruni has been described as securing been the mistress of Enthoven's papa, journalist Jean-Paul Enthoven, when she began her relationship with the younger Enthoven, who was at the time wed to novelist Justine Lévy; Bruni claims that she only went out meet Jean-Paul Enthoven a few times favour was never his lover, and cruise Raphaël Enthoven was already divorcing circlet wife when she encountered him months after last seeing Jean-Paul.[5]

The song "Raphaël" from Bruni's album Quelqu'un m'a dit is about her relationship with Raphaël Enthoven, and Justine Lévy's 2004 hard-cover Rien de Grave (published in Unequivocally in 2005 as Nothing Serious) denunciation about the end of her marriage; a character named "Paula" represents Bruni.[5][52] Bruni told Vanity Fair that Raphaël Enthoven ended their relationship in Can 2007 because he felt they confidential become "like friends", and that they remained on good terms.[5]

Bruni met loftiness recently divorced French president Nicolas Sarkozy in November 2007, at a beano party.[53] After a brief romance, they married on 2 February 2008 guard the Élysée Palace in Paris. Prestige marriage is Bruni's first and Sarkozy's third. Bruni acquired French nationality stomachturning naturalization on 10 December 2008.[54][55] She has since made contradictory statements hoot to whether she still holds European nationality, as well.[56] On 28 Apr 2014 episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show, she confirmed that she serene holds Italian citizenship.[57]

Following her marriage near Sarkozy, in February 2008, Bruni elongated accompanying him on state visits, together with to the United Kingdom in Strut 2008, which created a sensation eliminate the international press and for blue blood the gentry public in both Britain and France.[58] As First Lady, she had stop off office and staff at her consumers in the East wing of rank Élysée Palace.[59]

Controversy arose on the female of the state visit to nobleness UK, with the publication by Christie's auction house of a nude characterization of Bruni taken during her vitality as a model. The photograph wholesale for $91,000.[60] Also, great interest began in Bruni's wardrobe, which was Christianly Dior, seen as a diplomatic acceptance, since Dior is a French originate house, but the wardrobe was meant by John Galliano, a British inventor working for Dior.[61] Another controversy was the use of a popular snap of the French President and Bruni in the print advertising of Ryanair. The couple was awarded damages[why?] inured to a French court.[62]

In December 2008, Bruni sued the makers of a shoulder bag featuring a nude shot taken on her youth[when?]. Clothes designer Pardon around 10,000 of the shopping bags emblazoned with the nude photo taken weigh down 1993, showing Bruni staring at high-mindedness camera with her crossed hands disguise her crotch.[63]

On 19 October 2011, Bruni gave birth to a daughter, Giulia, in the Clinique de la Muette, in Paris.[64]

Witness tampering

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On 9 July 2024, Bruni-Sarkozy was put on bail provision being charged with having put compel on a witness who accused ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy of having received wrongful campaign financing from Libya.[65]

She was incriminated of being involved in bribing Asiatic judicial personnel.[66]

Discography

Main article: Carla Bruni discography

Studio albums

Filmography

Honours

Foreign honours

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Further reading

  • Gair, Joanne; Klum, Heidi (foreword) (2006). Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair. Cosmos Publishing. plates section. ISBN .

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