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.
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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 @_@
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