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38 Facts About Carla Bruni
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Carla Bruni was born in Italy and moved to France at the age of seven.
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Carla Bruni wrote several songs for Julien Clerc that were featured on his 2000 album, Si j'etais elle.
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Carla Bruni released her first album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2003, which eventually spent 34 weeks in the top 10 of the French Albums Chart.
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Carla Bruni won the Victoire Award for Female Artist of the Year at the 2004 Victoires de la Musique.
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In 2013, Carla Bruni released her fourth album, Little French Songs.
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Carla Bruni is legally the daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist, classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.
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In 2008 Carla Bruni told Vanity Fair that her biological father is Maurizio Remmert, a classical guitarist who comes from a wealthy family.
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Carla Bruni's sister is actress and movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
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Carla Bruni is an heiress to the fortune created by the Italian tire manufacturing company CEAT, founded in the 1920s by her legal grandfather, Virginio Carla Bruni Tedeschi.
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Carla Bruni grew up in France from the age of seven and attended the finishing school Chateau Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Carla Bruni went to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model.
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Carla Bruni subsequently worked for designers and fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Shiatzy Chen, Chanel, and Versace.
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In 1997, Carla Bruni quit the world of fashion to devote herself to music.
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Carla Bruni sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed six tracks on his 2000 album Si j'etais elle.
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Carla Bruni released her third album Comme si de rien n'etait on 11 July 2008.
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Carla Bruni sang for Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday on 18 July 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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Carla Bruni presented two three-part music series on BBC Radio 2: Postcards from Paris in 2014 and C'est La Vie in 2018.
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Carla Bruni is considered a fashion industry "legend", according to models.
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In October 2024, Carla Bruni returned to the runway to walk in the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to take place in six years.
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Carla Bruni was given an office on the east wing of the palace, which was known as "Madame's wing" and was assigned a private secretary.
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Carla Bruni accompanied Sarkozy on state visits, most notably, to the United Kingdom, where her presence led to the visit being widely publicized.
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Carla Bruni accompanied Sarkozy on a state visit to meet the Dalai Lama in August 2008.
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Carla Bruni has represented The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria numerous times as an ambassador and has visited Burkina Faso and Benin while representing the organisation.
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Carla Bruni said her lack of French citizenship disallowed her from voting, but she would have voted left-wing due to it being a family tradition.
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In 2001, Carla Bruni had her first child, son Aurelien, with philosophy professor Raphael Enthoven.
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Carla Bruni has been described as having been the mistress of Enthoven's father, journalist Jean-Paul Enthoven, when she began her relationship with the younger Enthoven, who was at the time married to novelist Justine Levy; Carla Bruni claims that she only went out with Jean-Paul Enthoven a few times and was never his lover, and that Raphael Enthoven was already divorcing his wife when she encountered him months after last seeing Jean-Paul.
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Carla Bruni told Vanity Fair that Raphael Enthoven ended their relationship in May 2007 because he felt they had become "like friends", and that they remained on good terms.
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Carla Bruni met the recently divorced French president Nicolas Sarkozy in November 2007, at a dinner party.
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Carla Bruni acquired French nationality by naturalization on 10 December 2008.
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Carla Bruni has since made contradictory statements as to whether she still holds Italian nationality, as well.
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Controversy arose on the eve of the state visit to the UK, with the publication by Christie's auction house of a nude photograph of Carla Bruni taken during her career as a model.
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Also, great interest began in Carla Bruni's wardrobe, which was Christian Dior, seen as a diplomatic choice, since Dior is a French design house, but the wardrobe was designed by John Galliano, a British designer working for Dior.
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In December 2008, Carla Bruni sued the makers of a bag featuring a nude shot taken during her youth.
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Clothes designer Pardon produced 10,000 of the shopping bags emblazoned with the nude photo taken in 1993, showing Carla Bruni staring at the camera with her crossed hands covering her crotch.
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On 19 October 2011, Carla Bruni gave birth to a daughter, Giulia, in the Clinique de la Muette, in Paris.
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On 9 July 2024, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was put on bail after being charged with having put pressure on a witness who accused ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy of having received illegal campaign financing from Libya.
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Carla Bruni was suspected of being involved in bribing Lebanese judicial personnel.