Carla Bruni (March 2004 - November 2010)

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She looks stunningly gorgeous.
But those shoes are offending.

You can see her shoes a little better on this pic.

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[pantaloend]

She really looks great. But it's sad she can wear high heels only when her husband's away ! ...

 

[McClaire]

Love you MarloweTiger!!! that blue is gorgeous on her!! thank you!

 

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Sells Family Castle

Posted February 4th, 2009

Since becoming the French First Lady,Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been all over the celebrity map. And now it seems she has liquidated a major family asset.
The Bruni family castle in Italy has been sold to an Arab sheikh to the tune of nine million Euros. And it sounds like they were pleased to finally find a buyer.
Carla’s mother Marisa Bruni Tedeschi told press, "Yes, we have finally found a buyer. After all, we had finished with Castagneto Po, nobody went there anymore."
Castagneto Po, a Piedmontese castle dates back to the year 1019, boasts 40 rooms and an 18th century interior that has no parallel in Italy. The castle’s furniture and fittings fetched 10 million Euros at a London auction.

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Arrivederci, Italy! France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy cuts ties with sale of £8m castle


on 06th February 2009

Ciao! Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, pictured in Paris last month, has cut ties with Italy

Italian-born French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has cut ties with her homeland by selling her family home for almost £8 million.
It follows bitter comments she made in October saying she was no longer happy to be an Italian citizen.
Yesterday was confirmed that the Castello di Castagneto Po, near Turin, had gone to an Arab sheik, following a London auction of its antiques and other fittings which raised another £10 million.
Carla’s father, the billionaire industrialist Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, bought the castle-style mansion house in 1952 for less than £1 million.
Carla was born nearby in 1968, but the family moved to France a few years later following death threats from the Red Brigade terrorist group.
After growing up in the French capital, Carla married President Nicolas Sarkozy following a whirlwind romance of just 80 days last year.
At first she kept up close links with Italy, but was furious in October after the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, made an apparently racist joke about the then US president-elect Barack Obama being ‘suntanned.’
She immediately said she was glad to have given up her Italian citizenship to become a fully-fledged French national.
She explained: ‘When I hear Silvio Berlusconi joke about the fact that Obama is always tanned, it unsettles me.
‘Some people will no doubt put it down to humour, but often I find that I am pleased to have become French.’
Mr Berlusconi responded by calling his critics ‘imbeciles’ with no sense of humour.
Carla, who made millions as a supermodel in the 1990s, has her own mansion house in Paris, as well as a vast holiday home in the south of France.

Family home: France's first lady has sold the Castello di Castagneto Po, near Turin
She is also able to enjoy numerous homes, including the Elysee Palace in Paris, thanks to her role as First Lady.
However, there is no doubt that she will look back fondly at her time at Castello di Castagneto Po.
It was often used as a backdrop for fashion shoots, and she spent many happy summers there.
It was jointly owned by Carla, her mother and sister Valeria.
Carla’s mother, Marisa Bruni Tedeschi, said: ‘We had finished with Castagneto Po – nobody went there any more.’
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Gala Dinner Hosted By Carla Bruni for Casip-Cojasor Foundation
PARIS - FEBRUARY 3: Carla Bruni attend the gala dinner hosted by Carla Bruni for Casip-Cojasor foundation at the Palais Brongniart on February 3, 2009 in Paris, France. (Photo by Getty Images)

 

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France's First lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
France's First lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (C), listens to a doctor explain the programme to fight AIDS at the Yalgado Ouedraogo hospital in Ouagadougou on February 11, 2009. Bruni-Sarkozy was in Burkina Faso on her first trip as a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.(Photo credit Getty Images)

 

[pantaloend]

With her little black dress on the gala of 3rd, February, she is especially stunning.
I really like her style. Even then, with black shirt and pants, she remains wonderful.

 

[The_Ida]

Who is the gorgeous blue dress by?

 

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The blue dress is by Yves Saint Laurent

 

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France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (2nd L) and Global Fund to fight Aids Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine (L), talk with women and children at the Pissy medical center in Ouagadougou in Burkina-Faso on February 11, 2009. The medical center offers treatment for various diseases and at the same time the detection of the HIV virus. Bruni, who married Sarkozy a year ago, expressed an interest in work to battle HIV following a visit to South Africa, which has one of the world's largest AIDS caseloads. The supermodel-turned-singer has said she hoped her status as French first lady could be used to advance a worthy global cause. (Photo credit should read Getty Images)

France's first Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrives at a meeting with the President of Burkina-Fasso; Blaise Compaore, and his wife Chantal at the Presidential Palace in Ouagadougou on February 11, 2009. On her first trip as goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Bruni-Sarkozy also dismissed chances of taking on another job -- in politics.'I am not ready for a political career,' she said. The supermodel-turned-singer has said she hoped her status as French first lady could be used to advance a worthy global cause.(Photo credit should read Getty Images)

 

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French first Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozyarrives at the Yalgado Ouedraogo hospital in Ouagadougou on February 11, 2009. Bruni-Sarkozy was in Burkina Faso on her first trip as a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Photo credit should read Getty Images)

France's first Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy holds a statue of a woman and child offered to her at an AIDS Global fund meeting in Ouagadougou on February 11, 2009. On her first trip as goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Bruni-Sarkozy also dismissed chances of taking on another job -- in politics.'I am not ready for a political career,' she said. The supermodel-turned-singer has said she hoped her status as French first lady could be used to advance a worthy global cause.

 

[Jacque Marcel]

I don't know? Slowly but surely she is starting to look like that cat woman Jocelyn Wildenstein.

 

[claudestrawberry]

<< she looks stunning in that blue dress.

 

[t-rex]

I don't know? Slowly but surely she is starting to look like that cat woman Jocelyn Wildenstein.

I agree - she has to stop whatever she's doing to her face!

 

[eternitygoddess]

I don't know? Slowly but surely she is starting to look like that cat woman Jocelyn Wildenstein.

I concur. Sometimes her face looks like melted plastic.

She use to be STUNNING when she was young.

 

[Harumi]

I don't know? Slowly but surely she is starting to look like that cat woman Jocelyn Wildenstein.

I wanted to comment on her plastic surgery face but thank you for doing it first, I feel less like a b**** .

 

[aris]

I wanted to comment on her plastic surgery face but thank you for doing it first, I feel less like a b**** .

well, if anybody gets pictures taken from all angles and with digital cameras - I bet that there will be many bad and strange pictures.
I think she looks nice and pretty when she is posing properly.
I also love the fact that she is very appropriately dressed - everywhere. and this is so difficult!
Love the short black dress on her - gorgeous legs! and with stockings! - I'm a bit fed up with bare legs in the winter.
I do not like that suit - but I think it is very appropriate for the occasion.

BTW did anybody noticed the shoes of the wife Chantal of the President of Burkina-Fasso; Blaise Compaore? Obviously she loves shoes!!

 

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hello!

Carla, who has a seven-year-old son called Aurelien, revealed her maternal side as she gently tickled the feet of one of the young patients at a clinic in Ouagadougou, the capital of former French colony Burkina Faso
Photo: © Rex

France's First Lady promised to take a hands-on approach when she accepted an ambassadorial role with the humanitarian organisation
Photo: © Rex

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy takes practical approach to ambassadorial role


12 FEBRUARY 2009
While her husband President Nicolas Sarkozy had work commitments in Kuwait on Wednesday, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was fulfilling her own official duties at a medical centre in West Africa.
Although a relative newcomer to the role of high-profile humanitarian, the mum-of-one seemed a natural as she tickled the tiny feet of a baby and spent time chatting to the children's mothers at a clinic in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou.
Later in the visit, her first as ambassador for the Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis And Malaria, she went on to meet with medical staff, further fulfilling the hands-on approach to the role she promised in December.
"What I would like to do working with the Global Fund is to communicate directly with mothers and their children," the 41-year-old declared at the end of last year. "We have to find a way to talk to them and that's why it is important to be on the ground."

 

[Thefrenchy]

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