15 Facts about Supermodel Carla Bruni!

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, nee Bruni, is a well-known model, singer, and songwriter of Italian heritage. She is also now famous for marrying the French President Nikolas Sarkozy. Here are 15 facts about this beautiful and talented woman.

1. Carla Bruni was born in Turin on December 23, 1967.
2. Her legal father is Italian classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi and her mother is Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini.
3. She has since claimed that Maurizio Remmert, an Italian-born Brazilian grocery magnate, is her biological father. Her birth is said to be the result of a six-month affair between Remmert and her mother.
4. She has since claimed that Maurizio Remmert, an Italian-born Brazilian grocery magnate, is her biological father. Her birth is said to be the result of a six-month affair between Remmert and her mother.
5. Bruni-Sarkozy has a brother and a sister. Her sister is Valerie Bruni Tedeschi, an actress and movie director. Her brother, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi, died in 2006 from complications related to HIV/AIDS.
6. To escape a wave of killings and kidnappings, her family fled from Italy to France during her childhood.
7. She attended Chateau Mont-Choisi, a boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland.
8. Bruni-Sarkozy studied art and architecture in Paris but quit at 19 to establish a career in modeling.
9. She was at the height of her fame as a model during the 1990s.
10. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has dated many famous men, including Mick Jagger, Donald Trump and Eric Clapton.
11. She once claimed she was not a fan of monogamy.
12. Bruni-Sarkozy is heiress to the fortune made by CEAT, an Italian tire manufacturing company founded by her legal grandfather.
13. In 2006, she took part in the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
14. She won a European Border Breakers Award (EBBA) in 2004 in recognition of her success as an emerging artist.
15. Carla Bruni married  former French President, Nikolas Sarkozy in 2008.
16. She has two children; a son from her relationship with philosopher Raphael Enthoven and a daughter with Nikolas Sarkozy.