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WASHINGTON -- The White House is denying that first lady Michelle Obama ever described her White House life as "hell." Mrs. Obama's spokeswoman, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, responded Thursday to a purported comment attributed to Mrs. Obama in a forthcoming book, "Carla and the Ambitious," about French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The book says Bruni-Sarkozy recalled that during a recent White House visit with her husband, the French president, she asked Mrs. Obama about her new role. According to the book, Mrs. Obama replied: "It's hell. I can't stand it."

Arms crossed defensively and her face fixed in a frown, Carla Bruni cut a sombre figure in Paris yesterday. France's first lady had plenty to think about amid growing talk that both she and her husband Nicolas Sarkozy are having affairs. The 43-year-old had been left behind in the capital while the French president made an official visit to London. He appeared delighted to be away from the rumour mill and seemed almost ecstatic on meeting Gordon Brown in Downing Street. The 55-year-old is said to be romancing his ecology minister Chantal Jouanno, a karate champion who is his junior...

The lovely Carla Bruni Sarkozy has left her husband to become Obama's mistress. The delightful Carla says: "I always wanted to sleep with a Nobel Prize Winner!"

She is one of the most famous faces in the world, renowned for her Gallic charm, elegant style and classical beauty. But it seems that the First Lady of France is never happier than when she is strolling through the streets of Paris – incognito, that is. In fact, Carla Bruni even admits donning a special disguise and affecting a ‘funny voice’ to avoid being spotted, much like Marie Antoinette was said to have done during the French Revolution. Ms Bruni, 41, said her life as the third wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy sometimes made ‘normal’ behaviour quite impossible, leading...

FRANCE'S first lady broke with protocol today as she held out a frosty hand to welcome Barack Obama. Stunning Carla Bruni was business-like in her greeting — while her hubby treated the US President's wife to a hug and Continental double kiss. The former model gave customary pecks on both cheeks to Michelle Obama and other dignitaries when the couple arrived in France. But when it came to the dashing US President the beauty kept a noticeable distance.

US First Lady Michelle Obama joins France's Carla Bruni-Sarkozy for a paparazzi-pulling visit to Strasbourg Cathedral on Saturday, diplomats said. As Western leaders converge on the eastern French city for a NATO summit, celebrity watchers will set their sights on the high-profile pair, whose style and personalities have grabbed world headlines. Obama and Bruni-Sarkozy will join other NATO leaders' partners for a midday visit of the Gothic jewel and a nearby art restoration centre, after touring a cancer research institute. Built from the 12th to 15th centuries, Strasbourg Cathedral was for centuries the tallest building in Christendom, with a north...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY, the first lady of France, looked out the window of her 13-seat military jet as it touched down here, spotted the red carpet and receiving party awaiting her, and suddenly realized what she was wearing. “Oh, I’m in jeans!” she said. “Well, at least they don’t look like jeans.” The 20-hour visit of the Italian-born singer, heiress and ex-model to one of the poorest countries in the world last week marked Ms. Bruni-Sarkozy’s debut as a good-will ambassador, a personal experiment in burnishing her image and projecting the soft power of France. A year after...

CARLA 'KOZY IN NYC BIG APPLE SAYS BIENVENUE Foxy French First Lady Carla Bruni was the belle of the Big Apple yesterday. The stunning ex-model, in New York with president hubby Nicolas Sarkozy for the opening session of the UN General Assembly, hit the town running - as the couple went for a morning jog through Midtown. Bruni turned heads in a skintight sports top that bared her washboard belly as the seemingly winded president struggled to keep up in an oversized soccer jersey that covered a pair of way-too-short shorts. A few hours later, Bruni looked no worse for...

Le Figaro newspaper was given a sneak preview of Comme si de rien n'était (As if Nothing Happened), her first album since marrying Mr Sarkozy, ahead of its official release on 21 July. In lyrics playfully mocking her reputation as a man-eater, the Italian former model sings: "I am a child. Despite my forty years. Despite my thirty lovers. A child." The First Lady, who has dated in the past Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Donald Trump and Kevin Costner, once infamously claimed to find monogamy "boring". Among the 14 tracks is a song called Ma Came (My Junk) – equating...

France's Nicolas Sarkozy marries Carla Bruni By Peter Allen in Paris Last Updated: 3:04pm GMT 02/02/2008 French president Nicolas Sarkozy has married ex-supermodel Carla Bruni in a "secret" ceremony at the Elysée Palace in Paris. The world watched the couple on holiday in Egypt The wedding took place just two and a half months after they met, and three and a half months after he divorced his second wife. They were married at 11am with François Lebel, mayor of Paris's fashionable 8th arrondissement - in which the palace is situated - officiating. Mr Sarkozy, 53, and Miss Bruni, 40, exchanged...

via translation - Carla Bruni pregnant! Things are going very quickly for Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy. Indeed, the former top Italian is pregnant! Only three weeks after formalizing their relationship and barely a month after they met. At his press conference Tuesday, the head of state was assured that his relationship with the singer, "it was a serious matter," and was confirmed at half-words her future marriage. And now a baby Sarko? The new presidential couple is obviously at the centre of rumours. It must be said that everything is going very quickly between Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni....

In his first political firestorm since taking office in January, Gov. Jon S. Corzine said Wednesday that he provided $5,000 in bail money to a lobbyist accused of stalking a state assemblyman. "I reacted as a human being responding to someone in need," the multimillionaire Democrat said. "However, in light of my position as governor, I realize this was a mistake." Karen Golding, a government relations manager for insurance giant Prudential Financial, is accused of breaking into the government-issued car of Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, a Democrat, and of writing threatening letters and making threatening calls to Cryan and others. Authorities...

U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine's ex-wife said yesterday he "compromised his ideals" to get elected by cutting deals with political bosses, and that his pursuit of power "destroyed" their family. Joanne Corzine said she was reluctantly breaking her silence because her ex-husband is giving an inaccurate portrayal of himself in his campaign for governor. She said that when she campaigned by his side five years ago, she urged him not to get involved with Democratic political bosses, but he contributed millions of dollars to them to "buy their loyalty." "It changed him. I think once you go down that road of...

A nurse for Terri interviewEd live on Fox News accused Michael Schiavo of attempted murder. She saw Terri's needle marks hidden under her breast and groin, after he had left being in the closed room with her. She found a used syringe hidden in the trash. Carla Sawyer- ______ "I was a nurse for Terri in 95-96. Terri was laughing, talking, letting you know she was in pain. She would say 'mommy', 'help me', 'hi', say 'pain', (would not say 'n' well,had pain in menses,). She had accurate reflexes on command. "Michael "wants her to die, he doesn't want the...