Carla Gilberta Bruni Sarkozy Tedeschi (Carla Gilberta Bruni Sarkozy Tedeschi) - Italian and French model, singer, author and composer, wife of the 23rd President of the French Republic - Nicolas Sarkozy.
Biography
Carla Bruni was born in northern Italy, 20 kilometers from Torino on December 23, 1967.
Family
The girl’s mother, Marisa Bruni Tedeschi Borini, didn’t just love music, she lived with it, excellently playing the piano. Alberto Bruni Tedeschi's father is an avant-garde opera composer who led the Turin Theater Teatro Regio. For five years he had been waiting for the opportunity to marry a girl.
Alberto's parents owned a tire and electrical equipment company for SEAT, were wealthy, and did not want to see a poor native of Piedmont in their daughters-in-law, even despite her aristocratic pedigree. The grandfather of the future model - Virginio Tedeschi (Virginio Tedeschi) was born a Jew, but adopted Catholicism in order to get permission to marry a girl from the Bruni clan. They madly loved their son, giving him the education of a musician, lawyer and engineer.
But Marisa waited for her happiness and the newlyweds got married. Their home was Castagneto Po Castle, consisting of 40 rooms, where the firstborn Virginio was born in 1959 and became an artist; in 2006 he died of AIDS. In 1964, a daughter, Valeria, was born, who later became an actress and film director. Carla is the youngest daughter of the spouses.
Childhood
Mother gave all her parental love to one child - Virginio. She was rarely at home, spending a lot of time on tour and in the arms of lovers, with whom she was not particularly shy. One of them, the 19-year-old guitarist Maurizio Remmert (Maurizio Remmert), as it turned out later, is the biological father of Carla. He was not embarrassed that Marisa was 15 years older, and the musician did not want to know her daughter at all.
In 1975, he moved to Brazil, away from scandal, and recognized paternity only in 2008. Carla learns about Maurizio at 28, after the death of his official father Alberto.
A beautiful and effective woman entrusted the upbringing of her children to the nanny Teresa, who came for the whole day, and in the evening put them to bed and went to her room. Carla, up to 6 years old, was afraid to sleep alone and slept with her nanny while secular parents paid tribute to art.
The most precious thing that the baby had at that time was the love of an outside woman and Mozart's notes on her mother’s piano.
In the early 70's. father buys an estate with a large beach in France, in Cavalière at Cape Cap Nègre. In 1974, the family decided to move to Paris. In Italy, the gang group Red Brigades raged with might and main, earning a living by kidnapping children from wealthy families. Alberto and Marisa, fearing for the life and health of the heirs left unattended, take them away from potential danger. The nanny Teresa does not agree to move, but she always recalls her pupils with tenderness and sadness. So Carla is left without the care of the closest person.
Study
Parents assign little Carla Bruni to an elite Swiss boarding school to study. There, a girl studies guitar and piano. She was bored to study, so she could not finish school with honors. As a teenager, she begins to write poems and songs, but for 10 years does not dare to submit them to the public. The first person to see Carla’s work was the guitarist of the Telerchon group Louis Bertignac.
At the same time, the girl is trying to start a career in the modeling world. Her perfect figure perfectly compensates for the imperfection of the face. At the age of 16, Carla poses for free to the photographer Thierry Le Gouès, with whom fate will bring her many more times later.
After school, the girl enters the University of Paris Sorbonne (la Sorbonne) at the Faculty of Art History and Architecture. Full of ambition and desire to become a celebrity, young Carla goes to the nearest modeling agency, which turned out to be City Models in the hope of getting a job. There they evaluated the perfect data of the girl and invited her to sign a contract. Soon, a new work enthralled Carla so much that she quit university, undergoes plastic surgery to correct the shape of her nose, and completely leaves the world of fashion.
At 29, a successful model beautifully completes her career on the catwalk in order to return to her favorite pastime of music.
Career model
In 1988, the agency proposed a new model to take part in the Guess advertising campaign. The shows of the famous fashion house were a resounding success and Carla one day became a world celebrity. She was offered expensive contracts by many fashion houses in France and Italy.
Photos of Carla Bruni appeared on the covers of Spanish, English and Italian Voque, Italian Elle, Marie Claige, Nagregs & Queen and other glossy magazines with a large circulation. Moreover, photos of naked Carla Bruni, too, sometimes could be found in fashion magazines.
For 10 years of modeling career, the girl has worked with fashion houses such as Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Chanel Cosmetics, D&G, Givenchy, Givenchy, Dior, and MaxMara. She becomes one of the most expensive models in the world, earning seven and a half million dollars for impressions.
Stylists, photographers and make-up artists liked working with Carla. She led a healthy lifestyle, every day swam and ran for three kilometers, followed a diet. The girl strictly watched so that her weight always remained at around 55 kilograms with an increase of 175 centimeters.
During makeup, she read Dostoevsky, while flying from show to show, she took out tutorials and learned foreign languages.
She could buy many outfits from designer collections, but she always dressed modestly and discreetly. From an early age, the girl trained facial expressions, since wrinkles frightened her, and long hours of photo shoots required stillness and endurance. Christian Lacroix and Jean-Paul Gaultier considered her one of the best models, while Carla could freely offer her services to world-famous designers.
In 1997, the model announced its departure from the world of haute couture. Carla decides on a solo career as a singer.
Actress career
In 1988, Carla starred in episodic roles of films: High Fashion (Prêt-à-Porter, 1994) directed by Robert Altman and Paparazzi, directed by Alain Berberian.
In 1995, she had another role in the film directed by Richard Leacock (Catwalk).
In total, Bruni has 17 paintings. There is even a fantasy style picture Midnight in Paris (2011) directed by Woody Allen. But the career of the singer beckoned Karla is still stronger than the career of the actress.
Singer career
Becoming a recognized musician in France is not easy. Carla understood this perfectly and went to her goal all her life.
She not only played the guitar and composed songs “on the table”, the girl went to vocational lessons twice a week, met musicians, and carefully chose a recording studio.
Carla's favorite singer and composer was Julien Clerc, and at a social event, a former top model told him that she had been writing songs for a long time. Julien did not go into details and in order to at least something to answer the girl, advised her to contact her producer.
A few weeks later, a text by an unknown author titled “If I Were Her” (“Si j'étais elle”) will be sent to the Clerk by fax. The composition turned out to be so elegant, light, fresh and full of feelings that soon under this name the musician released an album sold out in three hundred copies. Six songs from the album were written to him by Karl.
In 2003, Carla Bruni's songs in French and English were recorded in her first debut album, Someone Told Me (Quelqu'un m'a dit). Eight compositions of their eleven - the work of Carla herself.
The album was an overwhelming success in France and its sales reached eight hundred thousand copies. World sales surpassed the figure of 1 million copies. The album was produced by one of the singer’s lovers - Louis Bertignac. Their romance developed over the course of the year, then came to naught and the couple broke up. The style of blues, rock and folk songs of Carla led her to victory in the nomination "Best Singer of the Year" in the Victoires de la music competition, "Musical Victories" (Victoires de la musique).
The song "Raphael", dedicated to the philosopher of the university and the father of her son - Raphael Enthoven (Raphael Enthoven), gained fame hit even before the release of the album. Carla's low voice, not having a wide range, still managed to win the hearts of the French with her frankness.
In 2007, the second album, “No Promises”, was released in English.
In 2008, the third album, "As if nothing had happened" ("Comme si de rien n'etait"), was recorded. Since the singer recorded the last album already bearing the name of Karl Bruni Sarkozy, he was a huge success and sold out in a circulation of five hundred thousand copies by the end of the year.
Star lovers
Carla's mother from childhood inspired her daughter that once she could become the first lady and in every possible way contributed to this. In childhood, the girl often spent the summer with the future prince of Monaco - Albert Grimaldi. The royal family had a villa in France near the villa of the Bruni family. But the mother’s plans did not succeed.
Carla perfectly learned the lessons of her mother and preferred to meet only with rich and successful lovers.
One of them was the lead singer of the Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger (Michael "Mick" Jagger). From 16 years old, the girl dreamed of meeting him and after 4 years the dream began to come true. Carla began a romance with musician Eric Clapton, a close friend of Mick, and through him met the idol of her youth.
Jagger liked the girl, he decided to start an affair with her, not assuming that feelings would develop into something more than just flirting. Their romance lasted 8 years, the musician even wanted to divorce his wife, American actress Jerry Hall, but his lover did not need it. Jagger, although he was older than Carla by 25 years, could not control himself. He called the girl endlessly to the agency, and once he took a helicopter and flew to her from the tour for one night.
- Mig Jagger was not Bruni's only hobby. At 25, she began dating French actor Vincent Pérez. But this intrigue did not last long, and soon the girl got bored with the relationship.
- French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman has added to Carla's list of lovers between his two marriages. The paparazzi took a photo when the couple walked along the beach, holding hands.
- The passionate Italian was not ignored by the real president of the United States - multimillionaire Donald Trump (Donald Trump). For the sake of Bruni Trump left his beloved American actress Marla Maples (Marla Maples).
- Relations with the famous lawyer Arno Klarsfeld (Arno Klarsfeld) at one time was widely discussed in the press. Subsequently, Arnaud became a French adviser.
- Not completely clear relationship with French actor Charles Berling (Charles Berling)who planned to record a joint album with Clara in 2008.
- In the early nineties, Bruni had a short relationship with the best guitarist of the world Eric Clapton, but they were not particularly advertised.
- Another man who conquered Bruni was musician Florent Pagny. Carla became the reason for the breakup of Pani with his beloved Vanessa Paradis. But the novel had no fruit, the musician left for Argentina, where he found another wife.
Other famous lovers of Carla Bruni were: French politician Laurent Fabius, American actor and musician Kevin Costner, French film director and actor Guillaume Canet, French actor and film director Leos Carax, French actor Christopher Thompson (Christopher Thompson), former education minister Luce Ferry (Luce Ferry).
Husbands and children
Despite the fact that the press gave Karla the nickname “Don Juan in a skirt,” the woman wanted to get married and have a baby.
In 1999, she met with publisher, critic and writer Jean-Paul Enthoven, who was 19 years older than her. But the man had a son, Raffaello, who liked Bruni even more. Without hesitation, she leads him away from Justin Lévy's legal wife and they begin to live together. In 2001, Carla and Rafael (he was 10 years younger than his partner) gave birth to a son Aurélien. The couple breaks up after 6 years.
In October 2007, Carla came to a diplomatic dinner with Jacques Séguéla, where French President Nicolas Sarkozy was invited.
His wife had just left him, and Carla was able to captivate and interest an influential guest. Everyone who was at this dinner noticed that a lightning flashed between them.
From the first day of dating to this day, the couple together. In 2008, they legalized their relationship at the Champs Elysees (Palais de l'Élysée). Carla is also involved in music and appears on magazine covers. The only ban - the appearance on stage - she was able to survive for the sake of her beloved husband.
On October 19, 2011, Nicolas and Carla had a daughter, Julie.
Carla Bruni Sarkozy today
After Nicolas lost the second presidential election, Carla was not upset at all. She returned to her beloved business and became the face of Bulgary, is engaged in music and again gives concerts.
She settled down, brings up her daughter, established relationships with her husband's ex-wives - Cecilia Attias and Marie Dominique.
Interesting Facts
- During her time as a model, Carla Bruni was the face of the covers of fashionable glossy magazines 250 times.
- Donald Trump, the true president of America, is the only person whose connection Carla Bruni officially denies although he is considered one of the former lovers of the Italian.
- Living in France since childhood, Bruni for a long time remained a citizen of Italy. She received French citizenship only in 2008.
- Bruni finally parted with the old life, sold all the antiques of her late father to billionaire Alberto, sold the castle for thirteen million pounds and created a medical research fund named after her brother. She did not like her house, because there her father revealed to her the secret of her origin.
- In 2008, Carla herself visited the biological father in São Paulo, where she met him, his wife and two half-sisters.
- Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to protect his wife from communicating with former lovers (Carla had a good relationship with all of them), although she does not show her jealousy in public.
- In 2010, the Sarkozy couple visit the mausoleum of the Taj Mahal mosque in India (Taj Mahal)where a woman asks heaven for the birth of a son.
- At a meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Karl wore a blue jersey outfit but did not put on a bra underneath. Medvedev did not succumb to provocation, but this story was discussed for a long time in the press.
- Carla also dedicates songs to her husband, as well as many former lovers.
- During one of the meetings with Michelle Obama (Michelle Obama), Carla shared that details of intimate life with her husband. Michelle was so shocked by the words of Carla that she did not start the dinner that Sarkozy’s wife had hoped for, canceling it 2 hours before the scheduled start.
