Word: bruny
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...yacht trip funded by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. In October of last year, Sarkozy stormed out after five minutes of an expected 45-minute CNN interview when asked about his wife, whom he divorced shortly thereafter. And who can forget his whirlwind romance and subsequent marriage to model/singer Carla Bruni? For months, the French media has been inundated with glamour shots of the illustrious couple in Egypt, EuroDisney, and Italy—all places where Sarkozy, lacking any sense of discretion whatsoever, has sought to show off his prize wife with the ostentation of a child with...
...eroded first among older, traditional conservatives repelled by Sarkozy's private life: his unabashed relish for wealth and famous friends; his public anguish over and finally divorce from his wife Cécilia; and his courtship of and, less than four months later, marriage to former top model Carla Bruni. But the latest polls show the leading cause of voter complaint to be Sarkozy's failure to deliver on the reforms he hyped to the heavens during his first six months in office...
...Proof that Sarkozy's honeymoon with the formerly adoring French public is over came on Thursday - just five days after his Elysée wedding to former top model Carla Bruni. All three of the nation's newsweeklies hit kiosks with critical Sarkozy-focused cover stories. The cover line on L'Express is "The Disappointment"; Le Point details "What's Going Wrong" and the Nouvel Observateur calls him "The President Who Went Pffffftt." And that wasn't the only suggestion Sarko's presidency is deflating. New polls confirm the precipitous drop in Sarkozy's approval rating, from his near-record...
...What Lévy didn't pounce on was another Bruni-related case of Sarkozy contradiction: his blatant inconsistency on just how public he wants his private life to be. During a Jan. 8 press conference, for example, Sarkozy high-handedly defended the habit of leaving his private life open to scrutiny by the press, proclaiming he and Bruni "have decided to own up to" their relationship because "we don't want to hide". But as press reports began swirling the following week alleging the couple had already secretly married in Paris, Sarkozy decided maybe he did have something...
...volte-face and declared, "it's not the government's intention to abolish the legal working limit." At the same time, Sarkozy defended his controversial decision to use the corporate jet loaned to him by billionaire friend Vincent Bolloré during his Christmas vacation to Egypt with Bruni. Waving off what detractors called a conflict of interest of accepting free travel from a business mogul, Sarkozy cited the savings it represented to French tax payers who would have funded the official planes he would have used otherwise. Today, French online news source rue89.com reported two official jets had escorted...