Carla Bruni: I slept with Sarkozy on second date
PERHAPS inspired by the suggestion in new biography Finding Freedom that Meghan Markle slept with Prince Harry on their third date, Carla Bruni has gone one better.
The model and singer has decided to make public the fact that she jumped into bed with the then President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, as soon as their second date.
‘It was love at first sight,’ she declares. ‘I can’t believe I got that at 40 years old — it was crazy. I would never have thought that could happen at that age.’
Italian-born Carla, now 52, was introduced to Sarkozy, 65, by a mutual friend, Jacques Seguela, in 2007. ‘He had this crazy idea, like a blind date,’ she recalls in an online chat with Naomi Campbell this week. ‘He told me: “Do you want to have dinner with President Sarkozy?” And I said: “Oh, OK.” ’
Sarkozy’s divorce from his second wife, Cecilia Attias, had just been finalised, while Carla had split from philosopher Raphael Enthoven, father of her son, Aurelien, 19.
‘I thought he was going to come with his wife. And he didn’t — that was the cool part,’ adds Carla. ‘And then we went home together — not on the first night, but the second.’
Their matchmaker has described their blind date as ‘the unexpected game of seduction played out between two wild beasts’.
He also claims Carla told Sarkozy she was aware of his ‘womaniser’ reputation — to which he reportedly replied: ‘My reputation is no worse than yours.’
The couple married within seven weeks and now have a daughter, Giulia, eight. Biographer Valerie Benaim has claimed Carla had a ‘brief but very passionate’ affair with the former French prime minister Laurent Fabius, 74, before she met Sarkozy. She also discussed Carla’s numerous ‘secret’ lovers, including Sir Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton.
It is claimed that on her first trip with Sarkozy to her £2 million Riviera villa, she invited a trio of ex- boyfriends. They all had to sit at the same dinner table as her husband, sharing anecdotes about their relationships with her.