Sarkozy Threatened To 'Smash The Face' Of Editor After Carla Bruni Maneater Remarks, New Biography Claims

French President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to "smash the face" of a political editor whose magazine suggested that his wife Carla Bruni was promiscuous, a new biography alleges.

As the BBC is reporting, Le Point editor Franz-Olivier Giesbert gives a blow-by-blow account of a 2008 conversation with Sarkozy in his new book, M. Le President or Mr President, Scenes From Political Life 2005-2011. According to Giesbert's book, which went on sale Thursday, the president berated him for about 40 minutes after Le Point ran an article that offered "24 tips" to Sarkozy ahead of his wedding to Bruni, a former Italian supermodel.

Among the advice offered, according to the Telegraph: "Do not introduce your new wife to your sons, Barack Obama or any handsome men."

An excerpt from the outburst, according to the BBC:

Sarkozy: "This article is disgusting and I should smash your face in."

Giesbert: "Are you threatening me?"

Sarkozy: "You deserve it. I don't know what's stopping me. What would you do if I wrote that your wife was a whore that slept with everyone and even wanted to have sex with your children? You'll see what I'm going to do to you."

Bruni is known for her colorful dating history, which allegedly includes relationships with Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Donald Trump, among others. She is quoted by the Daily Mail as having once declared she was "easily bored by monogamy."

Comments

[practicalnomad]

02:07 AM on 04/27/2011

Neither one of them are overly attractive Long before she met Sarkozy, her reputation was easy to guaranteed. DNA testing might not be a bad idea!

[Kelsey Salatino]

06:07 PM on 04/11/2011

People grow and change. I'm personally giving her the benefit of the doubt. The writer was clearly in the wrong.
That said, I do NOT like Sarkozy because of his recent political decisions.

[SurrealSequences]

10:43 AM on 04/11/2011

Ok Sarkozy I'm with you on the 'face-veil' thing.

But NOT on the same page as you with regards to your wife. You can't change the fact of what she was and most likely still is.

[Guytar]

10:22 AM on 04/11/2011

Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger know how to create and sing beautiful love songs.

[Ramkshrestha]

12:24 PM on 04/09/2011

WITH EVERY ACTION THERE SI EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION.

[santiago sherwood]

01:51 PM on 04/09/2011

people read her past, the author was on target and it sarkozy should have expected that when he marries a loose woman with a near porn reputation.

[Eric d312]

11:30 AM on 04/09/2011

"Do not introduce your new wife to your sons"

Well, he did wrote that his wife will kind of go down with any men, including his sons. That's not something very nice to say...the only thing keeping him from doing what's normal,a.k.a. punching him in the face, is that he's president of a Country. He's not allowed to do things that could endanger the image of the country. but i'm sure will damn punch that man in the face.

there's a line between saying my girl prefer polygamy, and that she'll have an affair with my children. that's too much.

[Tibug]

06:41 AM on 05/05/2011

Well that's not totally out of the blue. She once was with a man whom she left for his son, The Eindhovens father and son. It's well-known because the latter, Raphael Eindhoven, is the father of her son, and because he was married and his wife wrote a book about it. Where she nicknamed Carla "Terminator", if I remember well.

[Eric d312]

07:51 AM on 05/05/2011

Oh well, now that i didn't knew. I guess i must take what i said back. This is not insult anymore, this is just fact. thanks for the info.

[BroadwayJoe]

08:46 AM on 04/09/2011

Gotta love it.

"I don't know what's stopping me."

Sarkozy is Napoleon reincarnated (without the military/strategic brilliance). He wants to fight everyone! Just check YouTube. On this point, I'm with him. If someone said that about my wife, I'd want to do the same thing. It's just a natural reaction.

[UncleSquinky]

08:08 AM on 04/09/2011

A man eater. Meat grinder. Sore loser.

-- Bob Dylan

[nenitaB]

07:25 AM on 04/09/2011

The social world has changed. They say top officials, public figures, celebreties are now living in what you call 'glass house'. We wonder how much of their privacy are concealed in their closets. In the same way the press and media is going beyond their limit of exposure of anything interesting to the viewing public. Of course, the subject of the rumor -mongering suffers, hurt ,and defamed ,thus friction arisis. This is the prize they get , it's life and perhaps dull and boring without this hysteria.

[Pierre Dumont]

06:30 AM on 04/09/2011

That woman clearly has a problem with men and power. And she did sleep with everyone. It's a strange move for a jealous man to chose a woman like that especially when you can't control yourself.

[Oxfordblues]

03:11 PM on 04/09/2011

And you know she slept with everyone HOW? That's a slight exaggeration. " That woman clearly has a problem with men and power. And she did sleep with everyone." I don't care for the woman
nor her husband but I would never say something like this because I don't know that it is true. Who is included in this EVERYONE? Truly everyone?

[SurrealSequences]

10:52 AM on 04/11/2011

Pierre Dumont most likely as well as I am; referring to "everyone" who could help elevate here onto a higher level. It's referred to as sleeping your way to the top. Therefore, NO not particularly 'everyone' just the 'everyones' who had could help her. Read her past history. I'm surprised she still able to, etc, etc. ......................... meaing so many have been in the harbor.

[Parade Keegan]

04:23 AM on 04/09/2011

Chihuahuas are ankle biters. Tiny dogs are so scared they bite and bark to hide their fear and to pretend they're "big dogs". I'll approach a mastiff, they're big and quiet, they don't have to prove anything. Chihuahuas I ignore, I push them out of my way and walk on.

[cliffhammond]

02:24 AM on 04/09/2011

What about Berlusconi? Did she date Berlusconi?

[Oxfordblues]

03:12 PM on 04/09/2011

Enquiring definitely want to know though Berlusconi is not "everyone" as the poster above implies. The poster didn't even specify gender in his/her comment.

[duxguts]

12:53 AM on 04/09/2011

How come we never hear people saying things like that about Hillary?

[cliffhammond]

02:29 AM on 04/09/2011

Only Karl Rove says them.

[Oxfordblues]

03:15 PM on 04/09/2011

And he can't find anyone to sleep with him!

[Oxfordblues]

03:14 PM on 04/09/2011

Why should people even think that about Hillary? Does Hillary have a child out of wedlock, was she a model? NO, she was a married woman and is highly looked up to as one of the more respected and admired woman in the US. Please don't insinuate unless you have proof.

[rissole]

02:56 AM on 04/10/2011

"one of the more respected and admired woman in the US", oh pleeeease!

[Gavin Saunders]

09:38 PM on 04/08/2011

Sorry Sarky, if your wife made the bed, you have no choice but to sleep in it.

[cliffhammond]

02:27 AM on 04/09/2011

I'll say one thing for her: she has more class than he does.