London, Dec 30 (ANI): France’s First Lady Carla Bruni is said to have helped free two French women jailed in the Dominican Republic for cocaine trafficking.
Alain Joyandet, the French Secretary of State for Co-operation, read out a letter from Bruni, 42, as the two women, [...]
London, Dec 28 (ANI): French First Lady Carla Bruni has landed into a ‘nepotism’ controversy after her son’s godfather was given a 4,500 pounds a month government job.
Francois Baudot was appointed as the new Inspector General of Cultural Affairs and the news comes in line with a recent [...]
London, Dec 22 (ANI): A tramp has claimed that he has befriended French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and that she regularly gives over 50 and 100 euro notes and even offered to put him up in a hotel.
The French first lady, who lives in the chic 16th arrondissement when not at the Elys
London, December 20 (ANI): The face off between French President’s wife Carla Bruni and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spouse Sarah may not happen soon.
Things turned sour between the two when Bruni posted an unflattering pic of the British First Lady on her website.
However, France’s premier may not have her wife alongside him in his [...]
London, Dec 18 (ANI): France’s First Lady Carla Bruni is said to have been described by a group of schoolchildren as having “false teeth” and being “too tall”.
Bruni, 41, had invited 900 youngsters to the Elysee Palace in Paris to hand out Christmas gifts.
And when the children, aged between six and nine, were asked what [...]
London, Dec 15 (ANI): Carla Bruni insists that one term as French First Lady is enough for her.
But whether President Nicolas Sarkozy seeks re-election it was “his business and not hers”, she added.
During an interview to TF1 television [...]
London, December 1 (ANI): Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has urged action to help improve the plight of women and children suffering from HIV.
The French first lady, an ambassador of the cause with The Global Fund, feels it is “unfair” that the sufferers in the developing world often miss out on treatment for HIV.
“I find it very important [...]
London, Nov 28 (ANI): Style bible Elle magazine has awarded first place in the category of “political chic” to Michelle Obama, and second to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
The magazine’s annual best-dressed list, which proclaimed that America’s First Lady is more chic than France’s Premi
Port of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): Now, who told French Presdent Nicholas Sarkozy to come here without his glamorous wife, Carla Bruni. In fact, most heads of government have arrived in this balmy Caribbean town without their spouses.
Fifty-three heads of state and no glamour. [...]
London, November 27 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy helped Roman Polanski get bail after the filmmaker spent two months in a Swiss prison on a child sex case, it has emerged.
The director’s sister-in-law Mathilde Seigner hinted that the leader has been instrumental to the recent development.
“I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it [...]
London, November 25 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife/former model Carla Bruni, who is set to star in Woody Allen’s new film, thinks she’ll be completely hopeless as an actress.
However, the 42-year-old beauty insists that she couldn’t let go the opportunity to work with the New York director.
“I am not an actress at [...]
New York, Nov 25 (IANS) Model-singer Carla Bruni, wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has accepted Hollywood filmmaker Woody Allen’s offer to appear in his next film.
France’s first lady, who appeared on Canal+ television Monday to perform a cover of the ‘Beatles’ And I Love Her’ with the American entertainer Harry Connick Jnr, said Allen [...]
London, November 24 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have become the latest high profilers to be parodied in the hit animated TV show The Simpsons.
A short clip, from the episode, called “The Devil Wears Nada”, of their unauthorised ‘appearance’ is said to have been soaring in popularity on the French-language [...]
London, Nov 6 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy has asked wife Carla Bruni not to “intervene” in matters of public policy after rumours of her influence on the French President were doing rounds, it has emerged.
Recently France’s leading society magazine called the 41-year-old French First Lady as the new Marie-Antoinette.
And one in l’Express mag accused Bruni [...]
London, Nov 3 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy posed for a washing powder advertisement in his childhood, it has emerged.
The 1967 published advert for Bonux shows a blond Sarkozy holding a toy plane in his right hand and behind him is a story about flying to China. His dark hair have [...]
London, Oct 30 (ANI): A leading French society magazine has branded Carla Bruni the new Marie Antoinette of France.
Point de Vue, which specialises in covering the lives of aristocrats and European royalty, has attacked the 41-year-old wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, insisting that she’s a daffy multi-millionaire socialite who does very little real work.
In the [...]
London, October 15 (ANI): Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been beaten by a former model in representing the “ideal” of Parisian womanhood in a poll.
Ines de la Fressange piped the French first lady to represent the “ultimate chic, urban classiness, and unflappable elegance” of the Parisian woman.
The 52-year-old topped the poll, [...]
London, Oct 12 (ANI): French first lady Carla Bruni has been seeing a psychotherapist for the past eight years, it has emerged.
It is alleged that the former model-cum-singer, who is married to President Nicolas Sarkozy, confessed visiting a shrink in a yet to be released documentary about her life for French television.he Daily Mail reported [...]
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 9 (ANI): France’s First Lady Carla Bruni is delighted that Malaysian Airlines is playing her album on their planes.
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who returned home after a four-day official visit to France, revealed this.
Seri said French President Nicolas Sakorzy [...]
London, Oct 7 (ANI): Ministers in the Nicolas Sarkozy Government are increasingly falling prey to the “Carla Bruni effect”, which even inspired the French President to shed pounds.
Under the influence of his supermodel-turned-singer wife, Sarkozy, 54, has been following a gruelling [...]
London, Oct 7 (ANI): French First Lady Carla Bruni has confessed to being in a never-ending beauty contest with other First Ladies across the world.
Bruni, 41, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has now unveiled a new website to give the world a peek of her former glamorous supermodel days.
Bruni believes America’s [...]
London, Oct 6 (ANI): The launch of France’s First Lady Carla Bruni’s website did not go so well, as the site crashed within minutes of opening.
Experts revealed that the site, carlabrunisarkozy.org, which had been set up to promote Bruni’s foundation to help France’s “most vulnerable citizens”, was not able to cope with the huge number [...]
London, September 27 (ANI): Sarah Brown’s dress designer complains that she does not follow her copious style tips.
Britt Lintner is the same stylist who designed the dress that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s wife wore at the G20 summit in London.
“I always [...]
New York, Sept 24 (ANI): French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was the epitome of style and grace when she was recently spotted in the Big Apple wearing a black number.
The ex-supermodel was dressed to the nines as she exited a New York City apartment building on Tuesday.
She wore [...]
London, Sept 7 (ANI): Known for being over sensitive about his height, French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly made twenty short people stand behind him, as he delivered a keynote televised speech recently.
According to reports, the President’s aides “vetted” people at the Faurecia motor technology plant in Caligny, south of Caen, Normandy, to stand near Sarkozy [...]
London, September 6 (ANI): Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is set to launch scholarships for youths from difficult backgrounds in France to help them achieve their dreams of making it to the fashion industry.
The wife of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to use the scholarship programme in the Parisian suburbs that were charred during one of the [...]
London, Aug 13 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni are planning to have their first child together in 2011, a leading French magazine has claimed.
And the reason behind the timing is: the French leader hopes that having a baby will boost his chances of winning the presidential election the following year, it has been reported.
Popular [...]
London, Aug 12 (ANI): France’s First Lady Carla Bruni was recently spotted going for a swim wearing a teeny tiny black bikini and a pair of flippers.
Bruni, 41, whose sensational figure has been honed by regular sessions with personal [...]
