Not So Comely Carla

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September 2008
- Bruni Meets Up With Metallica
  
  BBC | Sep 17, 08 8:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - France's first lady shared a bill with Metallica on a British music show last night, the BBC reports. Former model Carla Bruni tapped her foot and clapped as the headbangers played—then joined host Jools Holland for a bluesy ballad. Bruni discussed the challenges of living both as a pop star and as wife to "very kind" French President Nicolas Sarkozy. More »
July 2008
- In City of Light, Bruni a Bright Bulb Indeed
  
  Vanity Fair | Jul 28, 08 4:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Who could have imagined that Italian supermodel-singer Carla Bruni would find love with a right-wing French president? Maureen Orth takes a look at France’s First Lady in Vanity Fair : her education in art and architecture, admiration of women's-libbers Simone de Beauvoir and Françoise Sagan, and her husband's reaction to nude pictures online. ("Oh, I like this one! Can I have a print of it?") More »
- Carla Shares New Album on Website
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 10, 08 10:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If Coldplay and Radiohead can do it, then so can the first lady of France, reports the Wall Street Journal. Carla Bruni is inviting her fans to listen to up to 2 hours of her new album for free on her website. The album, which has sparked extreme interest among her husband's constituents, ranges from bluegrass to Bob Dylan-inspired. More »
June 2008
- 'I'm Left of Nic,' Carla Confesses
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jun 23, 08 4:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - They may look like an always-happy couple, but France's First Lady Carla Bruni has confessed she doesn't agree with husband Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing politics. She's not alone. Just a year after his election, polls have shown Sarkozy is the most unpopular president in six decades, reports the Daily Telegraph. "My instinctive reflexes are left-wing," Bruni told Liberation . She and her husband are not politically "joined at the hip." More »
- Bush Gushes About Carla
  
  BBC | Jun 15, 08 7:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush today complimented Nicolas Sarkozy on his wife, calling her “a really smart, capable woman,” the BBC reports. “I can see why you married her,” he added. In Paris as part of his European tour, Bush called the French president by his first name and noted that “America’s first friend was France” in a press conference that focused on warm relations between the countries. More »
- Bruni Sings of Drugs, '30 Lovers'
  
  Reuters | Jun 11, 08 1:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - French first lady Carla Bruni would like you to know she's "a child despite my 40 years and 30 lovers"—at least according to one of the more standout lines on her third album, due for release in July. As If Nothing had Happened is her first collection of songs since tying the knot with President Nicolas Sarkozy, and "showcases her fragile yet intense voice and unique melodic style," writes a critic for Le Figaro . More »
- Carla Seduced by Sarko's '6 Brains'
  
  Times (UK) | Jun 5, 08 8:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - France's first lady spills the beans in a new book about her whirlwind romance with Nicolas Sarkozy when she fell for his brains and his bod, the Times of London reports. Carla Bruni discusses her recording career, her past lovers—including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton—and how love blossomed after she was invited to a dinner party as a blind date for the French president. More »
April 2008
- Carla Nude Pic Fetches $91K at Christie's
  
  AFP | Apr 10, 08 8:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarkozy isn't the only one who gets to see his wife in the buff: a collector paid $91,000 for a photograph of a naked Carla Bruni at Christie's today. The auction house expected Michel Comte's 1993 portrait of the French first lady to sell for no more than $4,000, AFP reports. Brigitte Bardot, however, was the auction's big winner: Richard Avedon's photograph of the French star fetched $181,000. More »
March 2008
- Carla Outshines Sarko in UK
  
  Times (UK) | Mar 27, 08 12:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy tackled Afghanistan, immigration, climate change, and global markets as the French president’s visit to Britain continued—but Carla Bruni still hogged the headlines. Sarkozy ripped a French reporter who suggested his wife had overshadowed his trip, the Times of London reports—saying, “this is a woman who has beliefs, sensitivity, and a humanity which has contributed to her elegance.” More »
- Nude Photo of Sarkozy's Wife Up for Auction
  
  Reuters | Mar 25, 08 3:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A black-and-white photograph of Carla Bruni will go up for sale at an auction next month, Reuters reports. Christie’s expects the portrait of Nicolas Sarkozy's bride to attract a final bid of $3,000 to $4,000, and the auction house's announcement of the sale on the eve of a state visit to the UK isn't sitting well with the subject, the Daily Mail reports. More »
February 2008
- Bruni Sorry for Nazi Outburst
  
  Independent (UK) | Feb 14, 08 9:53 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - France's first lady of less than 2 weeks has already had her first run-in with the media, after incautiously comparing a gossip website with Nazi collaborators, reports the Independent . Carla Bruni-Sarkozy yesterday apologized for an interview in which she denounced a website that printed a dubious item about her new husband by saying, "If these types of websites had existed during the war, how many denunciations of Jews would there have been?" More »
- Sarkozy, Bruni Wed (Finally)
  
  Reuters | Feb 2, 08 8:36 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy has finally made an honest woman out of his supermodel-cum-singer girlfriend, Reuters says. The French president married Carla Bruni, 40, today at the Elysee Palace in a hush-hush ceremony atypical for the usually public couple. The mayor of a Paris district who officiated the nuptials said the bride was “ravishing,” adding, “the bridegroom wasn’t bad either.” More »
January 2008
- Bruni Greets Journo Topless
  
  Daily Mail (UK) | Jan 25, 08 10:02 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Carla Bruni may have the press corps covering her fiancé—French President Nicolas Sarkozy—atwitter, but it can’t be said that the model keeps cards too close to her chest, reports the Daily Mail' s Simon Mills, whom Bruni recently greeted with these fittingly plain words: “Sorry for being topless.” The effect on the following interview, Mills writes, was “pure conversational Viagra.” More »
- Get a Receipt for Those Candlesticks
  
  Times (UK) | Jan 22, 08 7:52 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Carla Bruni has not yet become Mrs. Nicolas Sarkozy. In an interview with Liberation , the French president's ex-model girlfriend also made life easier for Indian officials by saying she won't accompany Sarkozy on his upcoming official trip there. Protocol-meisters in the conservative country, where unmarried couples are unusual, weren't sure how to treat the First Girlfriend. More »
- India Blushes Over Sarko, Bruni
  
  BBC | Jan 19, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy’s ambiguous relationship with Carla Bruni has India up in arms over how to deal with the French president’s upcoming visit. Reports say Sarkozy and Bruni were secretly married recently, but Sakrozy won’t confirm or deny, leaving Indian officials to ponder what the protocol is for his maybe-girlfriend. Unmarried couples are largely considered scandalous in deeply conservative India. More »
- Sarko Secretly Weds Bruni
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jan 14, 08 2:49 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Capping off a whirlwind romance that's captivated gossip hounds on multiple continents, Nicolas Sarkozy secretly married new squeeze Carla Bruni on Thursday. The president's office neither confirmed nor denied the report, which originally appeared in the French newspaper L'Est Republicain, the Telegraph says, but Sarko told reporters last week they would probably hear about his wedding "when it has already happened." More »
- Bruni May Have What It Takes to Be First Lady
  
  New York Times | Jan 13, 08 8:22 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Former supermodel Carla Bruni may be catching some flack from critics who think she's distracting Nicolas Sarkozy from leading France, but those who would dismiss her as just a model don't have the whole story, writes the New York Times . The award-winning singer is intelligent, cultured—and strikingly similar to the last Mme. Sarkozy. More »
December 2007
- Sarkozy Steps Out With Singer/Model
  
  AFP | Dec 17, 07 9:39 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Nicolas Sarkozy soap opera’s latest turn involves Mickey Mouse. The recently divorced French president strolled Disneyland with Italian pop singer Carla Bruni on Saturday, provoking a hail of gossip, AFP reports. The president’s office was officially mum, but one magazine editor said Bruni told him personally “that from now on, it would become an affair, a public love story.” More »