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Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to Meet Monday for Lunch
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama and her French counterpart Carla Bruni-Sarkozy -- two women who at times have been cast as fashion rivals -- will lunch together on Monday at the White House, Politics Daily has learned. Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy but a native of Italy, is a former model, singer and actress (she appears in an upcoming Woody Allen film). She is more outspoken than Mrs. Obama, but both share a love of fashion. The two first ladies have met several times before. In September, there was a flap over whether Bruni-Sarkozy repeated an alleged private ...
Pope to Sarkozy: 'Leave Ball-and-Chain Carla Bruni at Home'
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 14) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy's what-to-bring list for his trip to the Vatican earlier this month had one notable omission: his wife. Sarkozy was reportedly told, in no uncertain terms, to leave Italian-born model, singer and actress Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at home, according to French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine. The reason behind the pontifical snub was a concern that Italy's chronically prurient newspapers would pair pictures of the Sarkozys and the pope together with racier pictures of Bruni-Sarkozy -- of which there are plenty. During her modeling days, Bruni-Sarkozy was ...
No Really, Michelle Obama Doesn't Hate Being First Lady
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- It seems French journalists Michael Darmon and Yves Derai, authors of the upcoming biography on French first lady Carla Bruni, "Carla and The Ambitious," may have some explaining to do. As Surge Desk reported earlier today, a passage in their book reportedly says that Bruni asked Michelle Obama how she liked her role as first lady during a trip to the White House last March. Mrs. Obama's response was supposedly, "Don't ask! It's hell. I can't stand it!" But the White House is denying that Michelle Obama said anything of the sort. Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for ...
Carla Bruni Biographies: 5 Stunning Revelations
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- It seems the French are so inured to scandal that the most shocking revelation in two biographies of French first lady Carla Bruni is actually a little nugget about Michelle Obama. Though the two books -- one an unauthorized account of Bruni's life by Besma Lahouri, the other an authorized account by Michael Darmon and Yves Derai, to be published later this year -- include other salacious morsels for those who feed on the details of the rich and powerful, they are not entirely surprising for a former model who finds monogamy boring. Below, Surge Desk outlines the five most ...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Denies She Said Michelle Obama Called Life 'Hell' as First Lady
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe French Embassy in Washington is denying a report in a new book that French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy claimed Michelle Obama said her life was "hell" since her husband won the presidency. Bruni-Sarkozy "distances herself completely from the content of the book 'Carla and the Ambitious,' which was not authorized and the authors alone are responsible for its contents. The words attributed to the First Lady of the United States were never said," Emmanuel Lenain, a spokesman for the embassy, said in a statement issued Thursday. Mrs. Obama spokesman Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld told ...
Carla Bruni Tell-All: Another Run-of-the-Mill French Sex Scandal?
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(SEPT. 2) -- By some accounts, Carla Bruni is having a bad week. The state-run Iranian paper that called France's first lady a "prostitute" last week clarified on Tuesday that it did in fact mean "prostitute" when it wrote "prostitute." Then on Wednesday, British newspapers reported that French publisher Flammarion was set to release a scandalous tell-all on Bruni's life, from "secret lovers to plastic surgeons." Bruni's lawyers told The Telegraph of London that they were "bracing themselves" for the book, set to release this month, which apparently includes new details on the already ...
Iran Calls French First Lady 'Prostitute' Over Stoning Issue
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- Iranian state media branded French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a "prostitute" for her public support of an Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery -- and activists worry the convicted woman may still be stoned. The attack on the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy shows the Iranian government's continued "defiance" of international pressure on the issue, activists said today. The government-controlled newspaper Kayhan denounced Bruni-Sarkozy and actress Isabelle Adjani in an editorial headlined "French Prostitutes Join Human Rights Protest." The piece called ...
Carla Bruni Shocked Michelle Obama with Sex Talk, Says New Book
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyFrench first lady Carla Bruni shocked Michelle Obama by trying to compare notes on their sex lives, Jonathan Alter reports in "The Promise: President Obama, Year One." Bruni, the Italian wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, "delighted in telling friends that she shocked Michelle Obama at their first meeting" by informing her that "the press of state business prevented her husband from making love to her as much as she would like," Alter writes. He also says of Bruni that "in her telling, they once kept another foreign leader waiting while they finished having sex. Bruni wanted to know ...
Sarkozy Reiterates Trust in Obama, Support for U.S. Afghanistan Strategy
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Nicolas Sarkozy of France spent Tuesday afternoon meeting with President Obama, discussing Afghanistan, possible U.N. sanctions for Iran and a controversial defense contract that angered European countries. At a late afternoon press conference, the two presidents told reporters that they trust each other completely and that their relationship represents unprecedented honesty between the United States and France. Sarkozy's two-day trip to the United States was designed to show that he is working with the United States on Afghanistan and economic issues as France prepares to take over ...
Carla Bruni Drops Gig For Sarkozy's Sake
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (Feb. 2) – French first lady Carla Bruni has decided to stand by her man rather than her singing career, at least when it comes to this month's San Remo music festival in Italy. The Italian-born Bruni was scheduled to sing at the festival's competition but she abruptly pulled out, apparently because another singer at the festival plans to perform a song mocking her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy. TV presenter Massimo Giletti announced Bruni's decision to cancel her appearance Sunday night on the Italian state channel Rai Uno, telling millions of viewers ...
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