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Splitsville for Sarkozy, Bruni?
Updated On: 10 March, 2010 08:17 AM IST | | Agencies
Blogs abuzz with rumours that both the French president and his wife are having affairs
Rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both having affairs are gaining momentum in France.
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End of a fairytale? In December 2007 Sarkozy started dating theu00a0 Italian-born model and French pop singer Carla Bruni. File pic.u00a0 |
The suggestion that the couple were both committing adultery first emerged on Twitter, the microblogging website. It was followed by a report in the Sunday newspaper le Journal du Dimanche.
The first tweet claimed that Bruni had become romantically involved with Benjamin Biolay, a French musician. It then claimed that the jilted Sarkozy had swiftly found solace in the arms of his 40-year-old ecology minister Chantal Jouanno, also a French karate champion.
French web magazine suchablog.com alleged that Bruni had been a close friend of Biolay for many years and was now unofficially living with him at his flat in Paris.
The rumours were given extra weight after being reported in an blog on the website of Le Journal du Dimanche. The paper wrote, "It's the gossip of the moment that could become the story of the year.
A romance is said to have started a few weeks ago between the First Lady of France and music award winner Benjamin Biolay. The rumour started on Twitter and is now on blogs and websites everywhere."
End of marriage
The Journal du Dimanche added, "It says the presidential marriage is breathing its last breaths. Carla Bruni is in love with Benjamin Biolay and the president has found solace with Jouanno."
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