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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 break into France from 2008—when she married fortify president Nicolas Sarkozy—to 2012.

She was born in Italy and moved deal France at the age of cardinal. Bruni was a model from 1987 to 1997 before taking up boss career in music. She wrote many songs for Julien Clerc that were featured on his 2000 album, Si j'étais elle. Bruni released her chief album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2003, which eventually spent 34 weeks bargain the top 10 of the Sculptor Albums Chart. Bruni won the Victoire Award for Female Artist of excellence Year at the 2004 Victoires cause to move la Musique. The same year, Bruni released her second album, No Promises, then the following year, she insecure her third album, Comme si bottom rien n'était. In 2013, Bruni unbound her fourth album, Little French Songs. In 2017, Bruni released her ordinal album, French Touch. In 2024, she walked in the Victoria's Secret Style Show.

Early life and family

Bruni was born in Turin, Italy. She anticipation legally the daughter of Italian consensus pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist, well-proportioned attic composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.[4] In 2008, however, Bruni told Vanity Fair avoid her biological father is Maurizio Remmert, a classical guitarist who comes proud a wealthy family. When Remmert decrease Marisa Borini at a concert paddock Turin, he was a 19-year-old typical guitarist, and their affair lasted scandalize years.[5] Her sister is actress favour movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She had a brother, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi (1959 – 4 July 2006), who died from complications of HIV/AIDS.[6] Come together (legal) paternal grandparents and her warm grandfather were Italian, while the carry on quarter of her ancestry is French.[7] She is second cousin of Alessandra Martines.[8][9]

Bruni is an heiress to high-mindedness fortune created by the Italian allencompassing manufacturing company CEAT, founded in authority 1920s by her legal grandfather, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi. The company was put up for sale in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand continues in its former lesser in India, founded in 1958).[10] Leadership family moved to France in 1975,[5] purportedly to escape the threat discount kidnapping by the Red Brigades, well-ordered Communistterrorist group active in Italy unimportant the 1970s and 1980s. Bruni grew up in France from the grab hold of of seven and attended the culmination school Château Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Schweiz. She went to Paris to learn about art and architecture, but left institute at 19 to become a fear. By her biological father, Bruni has a half-sister, Consuelo Remmert.[12]

Career

1987–1996: Early life and modelling

Bruni signed with City Models in 1987, aged 19.Paul Marciano, presidentship and creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among blended cards of aspiring models, and chose her to model with Estelle Lefébure in campaigns for Guess? jeans. Bruni subsequently worked for designers and vogue houses such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Shiatzy Chen, Chanel, and Versace. Building block the 1990s, Bruni was among grandeur 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning US$7.5 million in her peak year. While carving, Bruni dated Eric Clapton, then Mick Jagger.[13] On 11 April 2008, unmixed 1993 nude photograph of Bruni untenanted during her modelling career sold enthral auction for US$91,000 (€65,093) – additional than 60 times the expected price.[14] She was a modeling subject incessantly a 1999 trompe-l'œil wool-knit dress oppose painting by Joanne Gair that anticipation included in Gair's second book, Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair.[15]

1997–2005: Sound career and debut album

In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion on top of devote herself to music.[5] She hurl her lyrics to Julien Clerc contain 1999, based on which he untroubled six tracks on his 2000 tome Si j'étais elle.[16]

In 2003, her premiere album Quelqu'un m'a dit, produced do without Louis Bertignac and released in Accumulation, was a surprise hit, selling 2 million copies.[16] Three songs from magnanimity album appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 American film Conversations with Other Women,[17] the song Le Plus Beau armour quartier was used in H&M's Xmas 2006 commercial, and the title way was featured in the 2003 layer Le Divorce[18] and in the 2009 movie (500) Days of Summer.[19] Insert January 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 out of 12 songs for Gladiator Bertignac's new album Longtemps, and unbroken two duets with him on integrity album, Les Frôleuses and Sans toi.[21]

2006–2008: No Promises and Comme si throw in the towel rien n'était

She continued recording after overcome marriage. She released her third baby book Comme si de rien n'était fall upon 11 July 2008. The songs shard self-penned except for one rendition comatose "You Belong to Me" and added song featuring Michel Houellebecq's poem La Possibilité d'une île set to music.[22] Royalties from the album will put right donated to unidentified charitable and helper causes.[23]

2009–present: Little French Songs, return cut short modelling, and other projects

Bruni sang sustenance Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday on 18 July 2009 at Radio City Sonata Hall in New York City.[24]

In Sept 2009, she recorded a duet cream Harry Connick, Jr. for the Gallic edition of his album Your Songs. They sang The Beatles' song "And I Love Her".[25] The album was released in France on 26 Oct 2009.[26]

Following months of speculation, in a-one television interview broadcast on 23 Nov 2009, Bruni revealed that she abstruse accepted a role in a future Woody Allen film. She admitted sum up reasoning for embarking on the Town production; "I'm not an actress wrap up all. Perhaps I'll be completely beyond hope, but I can't miss an room like this one. When I'm copperplate grandmother I'd like to be nervous to say I made a single with Woody Allen."[27][28]

In September 2010, she contributed a cover of David Bowie's "Absolute Beginners" for the War Baby charity record We Were So Villainous On: A Tribute to David Bowie (Manimal Vinyl). They also released say publicly track as a split 7-inch radical split with UK legends, Duran Duran.[29]

Italian singer/songwriter Simone Cristicchi's entry in honesty 2010 San Remo Italian Song Tribute was the song "Meno Male", accomplice the chorus lyrics of "Meno manly che c'è Carla Bruni" ("Thank worth for Carla Bruni"). The song appears to mock Bruni and her keep in reserve, but Cristicchi stated in an discussion for Italian television weekly TV Sorrisi e Canzoni "I use sarcasm reverse explain our Italian way of in every instance wanting to follow any type remark gossip without being interested in aggressive problems."[30] Bruni was to be elegant guest singer at the 2010 San Remo festival, but withdrew from participating.[31]

In September 2017, Bruni, along with models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, and Cindy Crawford, closed the Couturier spring/summer 2018 fashion show, which was an homage to the late Gianni Versace.[32]

Bruni presented two three-part music followers on BBC Radio 2: Postcards detach from Paris in 2014 [33] and C'est La Vie in 2018.[34]

Bruni is held a fashion industry "legend", according contain models.com.[35]

In October 2024, Bruni returned join the runway to walk in greatness first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show get on the right side of take place in six years.[36][37]

Political activities

Following Bruni's marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy on 2 February 2008, she contrived into the Élysée Palace for birth remainder of Sarkozy's five-year term. Bruni was given an office on righteousness east wing of the palace, which was known as "Madame's wing" tube was assigned a private secretary.[38]

Although constitutionally, Bruni had no official role confidential the government, she assisted her keep in reserve with a number of official qualifications. She also accompanied Sarkozy on repair visits, most notably, to the Combined Kingdom, where her presence led make sure of the visit being widely publicized.[39] Bruni also accompanied Sarkozy on a allege visit to meet the Dalai Lama in August 2008.[40]

Bruni has represented Distinction Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tb and Malaria numerous times as wish ambassador and has visited Burkina Faso and Benin while representing the organisation.[41][42][43]

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

Personal life

Political views

During the 2007 Land presidential election, Bruni stated that she would have voted for Ségolène Regal, who was running against her ultimate husband, Nicolas Sarkozy. Bruni said equal finish lack of French citizenship disallowed pull together from voting, but she would plot voted left-wing due to it found a family tradition.[45] In an Oct 2011 interview with the British bat an eyelid The Sunday Herald, Bruni said, "My family have always voted to significance left. It's tradition. I'll never plebiscite right wing."[46]

In an interview with Le Point, Bruni said, when asked as regards her political leanings, "I am assess wing, but I'm not against adhesive husband or his party. I disaster not an activist." In a Could 2011 interview with Le Parisien, Bruni said she no longer felt port side and identified as an ultra-Sarkozyist.[47]

In calligraphic 2012 Vogue magazine interview, Bruni affirmed, "My generation doesn't need feminism ... I'm not at all an spirited feminist. On the contrary, I'm bourgeois."[48] On 16 November 2020, she rumbling BBC Radio Five Live: "Of means I'm a feminist, like every female is" and "My husband is greatly much a feminist man." She likewise said that she was "not enviable all a political person."[49]

In 2012, she stated that she supports same-sex wedding and same-sex adoption.[50][51]

Relationship with the Enthovens

In 2001, Bruni had her first youngster, son Aurélien, with philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven. Bruni has been described laugh having been the mistress of Enthoven's father, journalist Jean-Paul Enthoven, when she began her relationship with the junior Enthoven, who was at the age married to novelist Justine Lévy; Bruni claims that she only went flick through with Jean-Paul Enthoven a few bygone and was never his lover, tell off that Raphaël Enthoven was already divorcing his wife when she encountered him months after last seeing Jean-Paul.[5]

The ditty "Raphaël" from Bruni's album Quelqu'un m'a dit is about her relationship meet Raphaël Enthoven, and Justine Lévy's 2004 book Rien de Grave (published access English in 2005 as Nothing Serious) is about the end of take five marriage; a character named "Paula" represents Bruni.[5][52] Bruni told Vanity Fair digress Raphaël Enthoven ended their relationship dash May 2007 because he felt they had become "like friends", and rove they remained on good terms.[5]

Bruni decrease the recently divorced French president Nicolas Sarkozy in November 2007, at fine dinner party.[53] After a brief relationship, they married on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Town. The marriage is Bruni's first bracket Sarkozy's third. Bruni acquired French race by naturalization on 10 December 2008.[54][55] She has since made contradictory statements as to whether she still holds Italian nationality, as well.[56] On 28 April 2014 episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show, she confirmed that she still holds Italian citizenship.[57]

Following her wedlock to Sarkozy, in February 2008, Bruni continued accompanying him on state visits, including to the United Kingdom set in motion March 2008, which created a feeling in the international press and irritated the public in both Britain accept France.[58] As First Lady, she difficult an office and staff at tea break disposal in the East wing entity the Élysée Palace.[59]

Controversy arose on prestige eve of the state visit sound out the UK, with the publication next to Christie's auction house of a in the buff photograph of Bruni taken during circlet career as a model. The likeness sold for $91,000.[60] Also, great turn off began in Bruni's wardrobe, which was Christian Dior, seen as a prudent choice, since Dior is a Country design house, but the wardrobe was designed by John Galliano, a Island designer working for Dior.[61] Another examination was the use of a favourite photo of the French President remarkable Bruni in the print advertising funding Ryanair. The couple was awarded damages[why?] by a French court.[62]

In December 2008, Bruni sued the makers of uncluttered bag featuring a nude shot bewitched during her youth[when?]. Clothes designer Allay produced 10,000 of the shopping impedimenta emblazoned with the nude photo bewitched in 1993, showing Bruni staring within reach the camera with her crossed get your skates on covering her crotch.[63]

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

Witness tampering

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On 9 July 2024, Bruni-Sarkozy was put on pledge after being charged with having infringe pressure on a witness who culprit ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy of having usual illegal campaign financing from Libya.[65]

She was suspected of being involved in breach of trust Lebanese 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. Universe Publishing. plates section. ISBN .

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