Cecilia Attias

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Cécilia Maria Sara Isabel Attias (born Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz , during her second marriage Cécilia Sarkozy ; born November 12, 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ) is a former French mannequin and was with the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy married.

Early years

Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz was born in 1957 as the daughter of André Ciganer (or Aron Chouganov) and his wife Teresita Albéniz. Her father was born near Bălți in what is now Moldova and came from a family of large Jewish landowners from the Odessa area in Ukraine . The family name Ciganer is the Yiddish word for "Gypsy", from which there are legends spread in numerous media, according to which Ciganer is said to be descended from Roma . André Ciganer left his home as a teenager, moved to the Basque coast in Spain in 1917 and married Teresita "Diane" Albéniz, granddaughter of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz . After 1945 he settled in Paris as a fur trader .

She attended the Lycée Institut de l'Assomption, run by a Catholic order, and obtained her Baccalauréat B (économie) (Abitur B with social and economic orientation) with distinction. After graduating from high school, Cécilia began studying law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and lived off odd jobs as a mannequin for Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, among others . Some photos of her appeared in Vogue . After dropping out of her studies, she worked temporarily for René Touzet , a senator from the Indre department .

Private life

At the age of 26, on August 10, 1984, Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz married the French actor and television presenter Jacques Martin, heavily pregnant . She has two daughters with him. After separating from her husband, she moved in with Nicolas Sarkozy in 1987. Her marriage to Jacques Martin was divorced in 1989 and on October 23, 1996 she married Sarkozy in Neuilly-sur-Seine and took his family name. From this marriage a son was born. After Nicolas Sarkozy was appointed party leader of the UMP on November 28, 2004 , his wife Cécilia appeared in the party's organizational chart as her husband's “head of cabinet”. Cécilia Sarkozy did not vote publicly during the election campaign as usual, but stayed away from the ballot boxes. On October 18, 2007, the Elysée Palace announced the divorce of the Sarkozy couple. On March 23, 2008, Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz married the 48-year-old event manager Richard Attias from Morocco in New York .

Role as wife of Sarkozy

In the opinion of the French government, she played an important part in the release of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor from Libyan custody on July 24, 2007 through personal contacts with the head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi . This opinion, however, contradicted some other member states of the European Union , who saw their own efforts dwarfed by the commitment of Cécilia Sarkozy in the negotiations on the release that were about to be concluded. She personally accompanied the hostages on the plane from Libya with great media attention, which then led to resentment among other participating nations. In Germany in particular, efforts to release the hostages were not adequately rewarded, and in France their role in the negotiations was also criticized. Regardless of this, EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso expressly thanked her for her commitment. Under pressure from the French opposition to quote Cécilia Sarkozy before a parliamentary committee of inquiry about possible arms deals, she conceded consideration in the form of medical training, AIDS medication and visas for AIDS patients.

Autobiography

  • Une envie de vérité . Flammarion, October 9, 2013, ISBN 978-2081302563 . (roughly translated: a lust for truth )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Beider: A Dictionary of Jewish surnames from the Russian Empire. Avotaynu, Bergenfield 2008, p. 910.
  2. ^ Sarkozy's divorce Spiegel Online , October 18, 2007
  3. ↑ France's ex-first lady is getting married in New York ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Netzeitung: Sarkozy's wife wants to get Bulgarian women off ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Netzeitung: In Berlin anger and astonishment about Sarkozy ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Netzeitung: EU approaches Libya after medical deal ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Cécilia Sarkozy quoted before the Libya Committee , welt.de
  8. ↑ Netzeitung: Ms. Sarkozy admits deal with Libya ( Memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Attias, Cecilia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Attias, Cécilia Maria Sara Isabel; Ciganer-Albeniz, Cécilia; Sarkozy, Cécilia (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French model and wife of the French President
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , France