The public saga of their marriage and divorce is the story of his vulnerability and ego, and his determination to be president at any cost. Her elderly Russian-Romanian father ran a boutique selling furs. A kind of French Bruce Forsyth, he was a living legend and a recent divorcee 24 years her senior.
Soon they were courting. She told her friends: "I'm in love with the most famous man in France. The wedding - in Paris's richest suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine - was conducted at the town hall by the mayor, Nicolas Sarkozy. Aged 29 and married, Sarkozy was the youngest mayor in France and hugely ambitious. Martin was the sort of celebrity he adored rubbing shoulders with. But when the mayor saw Martin's bride for the first time, he has said that he asked himself: "Why am I marrying this woman to someone else?
She is for me. The Sarkozys made friends with the Martins, both became godparents to each others' children. They went on skiing holidays together. They posed on beaches and boats and in Sarkozy's office with their young son, Louis, playing at his feet. The Sarkozys were described by those who knew them as "intensely close". When he became minister of the interior in , she had an office adjoining his, sat in on meetings, chose his suits and organised his diary.
She petitioned for the appointment of those she liked and trusted, and warned against others. At first, she was unpaid, but in , she was given a salary by her husband's party, Jacques Chirac's centre-right UMP. He said her presence at his side was "absolutely crucial". I have a flaw: a marked tendency towards excess She smoothes things over, supports me. But when she floated the idea of her trying to run as mayor of Neuilly, he brushed it aside.
She said later that she felt as if she had smothered a part of her life with a pillow. The event organiser was Richard Attias, a French executive and a known charmer. After the rally, Sarkozy had dinner with Attias, apparently unaware of the bombshell that was to come. In May , nine days before France's referendum on the European constitution, the bubble burst. Sarkozy tried to persuade her to stay.
As France's interior minister, he controlled the police and pursued her to the airport in an official car with sirens blaring. It was the ultimate humiliation for a French politician who sought to be strong and in control of everything around him: Sarkozy was publicly cuckolded.
He was badly affected by what Nay described as "a force-nine earthquake on the ego-scale. Friends said he would see only those closest to him, sitting in his dressing gown. He cancelled a crucial TV appearance days before the EU referendum. But he soon reappeared, fighting back and attempting to turn things to his advantage, softening his image by admitting he had "relationship difficulties" like "millions of other French people".
Le Monde's political correspondents described how Sarkozy bombarded her with presents and text messages, sending her a parcel almost daily. Commentators questioned whether the trauma had affected Sarkozy's working life. Is France's identity threatened by the US? America's 'cancel culture' cause for concern, say European leaders. After graduating from the university, he entered Sciences Po, where he studied between and but failed to graduate because of insufficient command over the English language.
After passing the bar exam, he became a lawyer specializing in business and family law and was one of the lawyers of former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
Sarkozy married Culioli on September 23, Culioli helmed from a powerful family from Vico, Corsica. Sarkozy and Culioli had two sons, Pierre and Jean. The couple parted ways in after they had been separated for several years. When Sarkozy was the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, he met former fashion model and public relations executive Cecilia. Step outside the flat he shares with Carla Bruni, and he could be sporting a very arresting look. That moment is not yet upon him. He has appealed against his sentence for trying to bribe a judge, and that will keep him from imprisonment until a new trial is over.
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