Thursday,
December 20, 2007
Are Italians Taking over the World? Capello, Giuliani, & Bruni
The ANNOTICO Report
Carla Bruni:
The Woman Romancing President Sarkozy
Times
On
Are Italians
taking over the world? Fabio Capello has taken charge of
the
Bruni and Sarkozy
chose a bizarre venue to make their relationship public: Disneyland Paris,
where they were snapped at the weekend watching the Mickey Mouse parade. This
week the French media is gushing with gossip about the pair: Paris Match and Point de Vue have
both put Bruni on the cover, the latter with the line
"La dame de coeur du President".
Bruni will surely take it in
her leggy stride. After all, she has been "romantically linked" to
Donald Trump and Eric Clapton, and survived a headline affair with Mick Jagger when he was married to Jerry Hall.
Born into a
wealthy family in 1967, Bruni was seven when they
fled to
In 2000, two
years after retiring from modelling, she hooked up
with a young French philosopher, Rapha?l
Enthoven. The quiet life beckoned until Enthovens former wife, Justine L?vy (the daughter of the philosopher Bernard Henri-L?vy) wrote a thinly-veiled novel, Rien
de Grave (Nothing Serious), in which Carla had been "reimagined" as
The gossip mill
ground on, but by then Bruni had other things to
think about: a son with Enthoven and a pop career. A folky debut album, Quelquun
ma dit, was
released in 2003 and sold 1.2 million copies. Earlier this year she produced a
more ambitious but less successful album of adaptations of poems by Yeats,
Auden, Emily Dickinson and others, sung in a smoky,
quivering English accent. Full of literary zeal, she spent days studying verse,
with Marianne Faithfull an unlikely tutor.
Bruni has described herself as
"manipulative" and "fiery", but says that her reputation as
a "strategist" is wrong. "I never felt fame or power was
important when you are in love." Sarkozy, who
announced the end of his marriage in October, appeared without his wedding ring
for the first time this week. It seems that the President and Bruni are together " if
not for life" then at least for Christmas.
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