Carla Bruni

About Carla Bruni

Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, known as Carla Bruni (born 23 December 1967) is an Italian songwriter, singer and model, and wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Heiress to the Italian tire manufacturing company CEAT founded in the 1920s by her grandfather Virginio Bruni Tedeschi and sold by her stepfather Alberto in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand lives on via its former subsidiary in India, founded in 1958), she was born in Turin, Italy. The family moved to France in 1973, reportedly to escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group active in Italy in the 1970s. Carla grew up in France from five and attended boarding school in Switzerland. She returned to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model.

She is the daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi. Her sister is actress and movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She also had a brother, Virginio Bruni-Tedeschi (1959 - 4 July 2006). In 2007, it was claimed her biological father is Maurizio Remmert, an Italian businessman settled in Brazil.