Who has given it to them? For what reason? Was it a special celebration or did they buy it themselves? Bruni β dressed in a white silk shirt, high-waisted black trousers and ballet pumps β is draped across a quite preposterous cream leather sofa, looking like a modern-day Cleopatra. Bruni, an ambassador for the luxury Italian brand since and loyal customer for many years more, will be the guest of honour. I just like to add a little shine sometimes. A slim diamond-studded band glints in the light.
Heiress, model, socialite, musician, philanthropist. In person Bruni, 48, has none of the frosty aloofness one might expect of somebody blessed with such extreme helpings of wealth, beauty and temporarily, at least power.
Music is a lonely job, but as a model you are always in the middle of a group. I like that. The daughter of Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, a wealthy tyre industrialist and composer, and Marisa Borini, a concert pianist, Bruni was born in Turin.
At seven she left for Paris with her brother, Virginio, who died of complications from HIV in aged just 46, and her sister, Valeria, an actress, in a move reportedly prompted by the threat of kidnapping by the Brigate Rossa, a far-left gang targeting the children of rich Italians in the s.
I was the same β just angry. It was also a decade in which she became a world-class heartbreaker, having a relationship with Eric Clapton and a seven-year affair with Mick Jagger. At one point she was even linked to Donald Trump, then merely a harmless property tycoon.
