Methinks he's forgotten already...
Posted on 01/10/2008 5:29:07 PM PST by Cincinna
Cécilia Sarkozy is reported to have made the comments before Mr Sarkozy hinted that he will marry the ex-supermodel Carla Bruni following a whirlwind affair of less than three months.
As the Élysée palace soap opera descended to new depths of vitriol, Mrs Sarkozy alleged that her 52-year-old ex-husband was "a man who likes no-one, not even his children".
According to a new book, she even called the president's other female friends "a bunch of slappers" and young female government ministers "boring wallflowers".
Mrs Sarkozy is also said to have launched a thinly veiled attack on the president's 40-year-old fiancee, telling a friend: "Carla Bruni won't make him forget me in a hurry!"
Although Mr Sarkozy is expected to marry Miss Bruni, Mrs Sarkozy is unconvinced that her ex-husband of eleven years has got over her, and he is currently on the rebound.
Many have commented on the extraordinary physical similarities between the two women, although at 50 Cecilia is 10 years older than Miss Bruni.
It has also already been revealed that Mr Sarkozy was rushed to hospital suffering from high fever and a throat abscess on Oct 21 - the day after he had announced his divorce from his second wife.
Said to be depressed as well as ill, he called Mrs Sarkozy from hospital, who visited bedside to comfort him.
A month after undergoing surgery on his throat he met Miss Bruni at a Paris dinner party, and the pair are now engaged to be married.
Mrs Sarkozy has launched legal action to stop publication of the book in which she is quoted as calling him a philanderer, stingy and unworthy of being president.
The book, Cécilia, was written by a French journalist Anna Biton, who has known the former First Lady of France for many years.
It was scheduled to be distributed by the publisher Flammarion in time for the weekend.
But Mrs Sarkozy instructed lawyers "to initiate all necessary actions for the protection of her rights in regard to statements attributed to her in extracts from the book".
The action targets the book rather than what she is reported to have said.
Mrs Sarkozy's lawyers have demanded an injunction on the book's release and fines of £150,000 per copy that becomes public.
Mrs Sarkozy was not present at the Paris civil court where the case was heard.
A decision is due on Friday.
In the book, Mrs Sarkozy is specifically quoted as saying of her ex-husband: "There is a ridiculous side to him. He is not dignified. He is an unworthy president of the Republic. He has a behavioural problem."
She also had harsh words for Mr Sarkozy's aides and advisors, describing them as "young guys who found themselves puffed out with power and who took themselves for the princes of Paris".
The book is one of three works about Mrs Sarkozy scheduled to be published simultaneously.
In Rupture, one of the other titles, the two authors Yves Derai and Michael Darmon, claim Mrs Sarkozy gave her husband's advisers marks according to their loyalty to her, from "Untrustworthy" to "I'm not sure I can kiss you".
Mrs Sarkozy's account in the book of her role in freeing six foreign medics from Libya last July is just as compelling.
Sent by her husband allegedly in a final bid to save their marriage, she claims to have single-handedly put sufficient pressure on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to releasing them.
"I pulled off the greatest break-in of the century," she is cited as exclaiming.
"Gaddafi had no intention of freeing these girls. I led the negotiations - I took control of Gaddafi."
Mrs Sarkozy is even claimed to have boasted she had "the balls" for the job.
In the third book, The Hidden Face of Cécilia Sarkozy, that Mr Sarkozy's surgery is revealed.
Mrs Sarkozy is now said to have been reunited with the public relations executive Richard Attias, whom she had an affair with in 2005 while still married to Mr Sarkozy.
She has a 10-year-old son, Louis, with Mr Sarkozy, as well as two daughters from a previous marriage.
Mr Sarkozy has two sons from his first marriage. Earlier this week Mr Sarkozy announced he was set to marry Miss Bruni, after giving her a Dior engagement ring at Christmas.
They are expected to wed before Mr Sarkozy's state visit to Britain in March, when he will be a guest of the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Sounds like an oversupply of European nuance in this story.
What can one say?
The Elysee Soap Opera is getting into Clinton Trash territory. Much more disappointing becauses of the high hopes we had for Sarko has a new kind of Conservative leader for France. What is needed in these grave times is a man who thinks with his head... the head on his shoulders, that is.
Is there a worse group of narcissistic, self involved, self inflated people around? Over-inflated egos, vanity, superficiality, vacuousness, and just pure trashiness.
As Shakespeare said so long ago “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. And this is from a woman whose favorite occupation is shopping.
Methinks he's forgotten already...
The article title is unfair to the former Mrs. Sarkozy, who is merely alleged to have said those things, and is suing to stop the book. It makes her look like a jealous and vengeful ex-wife, which may be entirely contrary to fact.
yitbos
Cecelia is the bitch from hell. Sarkosy is the typical penis-less French. Carla is worthless gutter trash. Sounds like the French version of RATS Hill & Bill and PUB Rudy & Judy.
You now Carla Bruni has made two albums of her singing?
Absolutely AWFUL! (like a cross between whispering, talking, sorta singing with plunking guitar in the background.)
So bad it’s funny.
Methinks former wife Cecilia is a tad green with jealousy over Sarkozy’s new lady Carla.
Poor little Louis.
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
Me thinks Cecilia wants to shake his confidence daily!
Cecilia who??
Oh come on Cincinna, is the ex Mrs Sarkozy’s little diatribe worse then her treatment of him when they vacationed in the States?
Ex’s say and do some crazy stuff, she is no exception.
And “Stingy” Sarko is tight with a Euro?
If we polled divorce attorney’s around the globe that would be the #1 complaint of every Ex that ever walked the face of the planet...LOL!
Rode hard, put away wet. And fugly.
Same agent as William Shatner?
After that pic, I’m having a hard time remembering my name @_@
Yep,
that bad.
It’s on a free download site and I think it’s only been downloaded like 20 times.
LOL! Looks as if he's gunna get even!
LEAVE SARKO ALONE! HE’S A HUMAN!
You were warned!
Plunk
rasp
Whisper
plunk
tick toc
Bunchoffrenchwords
plunk
It just got a little nipply in here...
It has also already been revealed that Mr Sarkozy was rushed to hospital suffering from high fever and a throat abscess on Oct 21 - the day after he had announced his divorce from his second wife.I can only speculate what you're thinking, but cut it out right now. ;') Thanks Cincinna.
Nice!
While modeling, Bruni dated Charles Berling, Vincent Perez, Louis Bertignac, Arno Klarsfeld, Laurent Fabius,Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, Donald Trump and Kevin Costner...
While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven, which caused Raphaël to divorce novelist Justine Lévy...
Bruni and Raphaël Enthoven had a son, Aurélien, born 2001...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bruni
Sadly for him, Cecilia did the walking.
He is an idiot not to have gotten a non disclosure, confidentiality clause out of her as the price for the divorce, which she initiated and she wanted.
There are three books coming out about the lovely Cecilia. All three by authors she knows extremely well, and to whom she gave interviews when it suited her.
Cecilia is not suing for libel,claiming what is contained in the books is false, she is suing to stop publication as an invasion of her private life, and insane concept in France that has been thrown out the window by none other that the media mad Sarko, himself.
'Fer instance, last time I was there, I had a whole suitcase full of chocolate bars and nylons. Think they'd even give me the time of the day?
(did my Daddy lie to me?)
“How can we respect a country whose mothers let our fathers [] ‘em for candy bars after the war?” — Lenny Bruce
Whoa. Definitely need a raincoat, even if Mick Jagger were the only one on the list.
Art Goldhammer at his Blog,French Politics, offerds this insight into Sarko’s total irrational behavior:
http://artgoldhammer.blogspot.com/
Distracted?
While listening to Sarko’s news conference the other day, I did ask myself if he had lost his concentration. It seemed uncharacteristically maladroit of him to defend his failure to enhance the purchasing power of the French by asking the press the rhetorical question, “What do you want me to do? The coffers are empty. Do you want me to give orders to private firms, which I have no power to do?” A confession of powerlessness from the voluntarist president, whose slogan was, “Together, everything becomes possible!” And then to compound the blunder by saying that this year would mark the end of the 35-hour week, when so much of his economic policy had been built around the idea of offering incentives to firms and workers to voluntarily exceed the legal limit (he has since backtracked on this statement, saying he has no intention of changing the duration of the legal work week).
It was a puzzle. The always-on-message president had gone way off. What was going on? Now we have an answer—of sorts. It seems that François Fillon is worried that the Omnipresident has been distracted by Carla Bruni, who has moved into the Élysée, where she has been assigned a room for her songwriting. He skips meetings, he doesn’t pay attention when people talk to him. He’s laughing again and telling jokes—dirty jokes. For those who like their psychohistory lite, we have a new story line for the Sarko saga: the man who wanted the presidency to fulfill his adolescent fantasies, who felt left out as a boy and so insisted on being the center of attention as a man, now has every boy’s dream, a live-in supermodel and singer-songwriter, and he is mooning away after her while his ministers drone on about such tiresome matters as inflation, GDP, and other such rot. Let Edgar Morin and Amartya Sen sort it all out while Nicolas draws hearts around the name “Carla” on the covers of all those forbiddingly thick dossiers.
Art Goldhammer at his Blog,French Politics, offerds this insight into Sarko’s total irrational behavior:
http://artgoldhammer.blogspot.com/
Distracted?
While listening to Sarko’s news conference the other day, I did ask myself if he had lost his concentration. It seemed uncharacteristically maladroit of him to defend his failure to enhance the purchasing power of the French by asking the press the rhetorical question, “What do you want me to do? The coffers are empty. Do you want me to give orders to private firms, which I have no power to do?” A confession of powerlessness from the voluntarist president, whose slogan was, “Together, everything becomes possible!” And then to compound the blunder by saying that this year would mark the end of the 35-hour week, when so much of his economic policy had been built around the idea of offering incentives to firms and workers to voluntarily exceed the legal limit (he has since backtracked on this statement, saying he has no intention of changing the duration of the legal work week).
It was a puzzle. The always-on-message president had gone way off. What was going on? Now we have an answer—of sorts. It seems that François Fillon is worried that the Omnipresident has been distracted by Carla Bruni, who has moved into the Élysée, where she has been assigned a room for her songwriting. He skips meetings, he doesn’t pay attention when people talk to him. He’s laughing again and telling jokes—dirty jokes. For those who like their psychohistory lite, we have a new story line for the Sarko saga: the man who wanted the presidency to fulfill his adolescent fantasies, who felt left out as a boy and so insisted on being the center of attention as a man, now has every boy’s dream, a live-in supermodel and singer-songwriter, and he is mooning away after her while his ministers drone on about such tiresome matters as inflation, GDP, and other such rot. Let Edgar Morin and Amartya Sen sort it all out while Nicolas draws hearts around the name “Carla” on the covers of all those forbiddingly thick dossiers.
Hey Cincinna,
You can’t imagine how he’s lowered the bar here in France.
There was this tacit agreement not to blast the private lives of Presidents in the media, but his lack of any modesty and self control has removed this taboo.
He’s made himself ridiculous all by himself, and this article that makes it sound like Cecilia made these statements recently isn’t completely honest.
I have no real opinion about her, he really must have been impossible for her to lose control of a sense of decorum (the standing up of the President of the US comes to mind...). I mean, you stay with a man for years and work with him to become the head of the republique, and then when he wins, you leave??
There are just some things that are inexcusable, and claiming ‘love’, as if that’s some explanation is pathetic; A lack of the minimum of discipline.
He really appears like some silly teenager that wants to stick it to his ex.
Your last post here really shows how Cecilia kept him grounded. I wonder how long she had to consider the effect her leaving would have on his well-being and France’s...
He must truly have been insufferable.
Sarah, I agree,
They are both, Cecilia and Nicolas, and now Carla Bruni insufferable adolescents and baby boomers ( la generation soixante - huite) in France.
No sense of propriety,modesty, morals, decorum, along with the rejection of the sanctity of marriage and family.
If you remember how nicolas and Cecilia mer- he officiated at her marriage to the TV star Jacques Martin, and decided to marry her even though she was pregnant and married to another man.
She had two babies when she left Martin for Sarko, one of them only 6 months old. He was married to his first wife, and had two little boys.
There is an irresponsibility here that it is difficult for us as Americans to grasp. To me it signifies a falling apart and disintegration of society when the most important societal institutions of marriage. family, and religion, are flounted.
How different are they from Hillary and her HINO and the MeMeMe, I, I, I generation they represent?
America may still have a chance. France, it seems to me, is on a path that leads to destruction, and it is almost too late to turn it back.
Plus who knows how many others ?
Hopefully they go to a doctor for a full inspection...STD’s, etc.
He skips meetings, he doesn't pay attention when people talk to him.You have seen her, right? ;'D My wild guess is, he's going to shuffle his cabinet; they are not all getting along, and the seeming risk of pulling in such disparate elements hasn't entirely paid off. But ultimately, in the main, this is part of an anti-conservative press offensive.
He’s a busy man. He might have been better served by romancing a beautiful doctor instead of a beautiful bubblehead artist. :’)
How do you say ‘Not Guilty’ in French?
Western selection processes for political office weed out all other types. Only a malignant narcissist wants the job badly enough to put up with the abuse he or she will have to take on the way.
Hillary was born to the role. ;)
Wow, wha't the difference between Cecilia and a new Cadillac? Everyone hasn't been in a new Cadillac.
replace Cecilia with Bruni. got my french tarts mixed up.
Yeah but I’d listen to it continuously for as long as...
you could look at her.
Sadly, its so bad, her looks don’t help (granted, I’m a female...but damn)
Yeah. I just wanna look. That’s the ticket.
Everyone hasn’t been in a new Cadillac.
8-)
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