20 h. ago From pink diamonds to prison visits: Is Carla Bruni’s glamorous life in tatters?

The former first lady of France loves champagne, couture and Cannes, but now her beloved husband has been locked up in a Paris prison

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26 h. ago Nicolas Sarkozy shares last kiss with Carla Bruni as he leaves home to begin five

Sarkozy is the first former French leader to be jailed since the Second World War

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26 h. ago Humbled Nicolas Sarkozy enters prison after emotional goodbye to distraught

The 70-year-old arrived at La Sante prison on Tuesday morning, with reporters hearing convicts shouting from their cells: 'Welcome Sarkozy!', 'Sarkozy's here.'

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28 h. ago Crowds gather to watch Nicolas Sarkozy go to jail: Disgraced former president's sons visit him before he begins five

Sarkozy, who was the president of France between 2007 and 2012, will become the first former French leader to be jailed since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain after World War Two.

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42 h. ago Jemima Goldsmith pays tribute to her 'funny and sharp' mother Lady Annabel after her death aged 91

The British daughter of late billionaire tycoon Sir James Goldsmith took to her Instagram account today to share an array of photographs celebrating the glamorous life of her mother.

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45 h. ago Carla Bruni doesn't appear to have a trouble in the world as she is pictured scooting around Paris the day before her husband Nicolas Sarkozy begins five

Wearing dark oversized sunglasses and a sturdy helmet, the 56-year-old former First Lady looked calm as she made her way along a cobbled Parisian street today.

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8 d. ago Mystery visitors plunged Ghislaine Maxwell’s Texas prison camp into lockdown as inmates complain of preferential treatment, report says

Maxwell had a mysterious meeting in the prison’s chapel that prevented other inmates from getting their outdoor time, per the report

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9 d. ago Ian Watkins spotted 'kissing young groupies' while visiting paedo in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was killed at HMP Wakefield, also known as 'Monster Mansion' in West Yorkshire, on Saturday morning

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9 d. ago Ian Watkins 'seen kissing young groupies' while they visited Lostprophets paedo in prison

Despicable sex offender Ian Watkins left a witness sickened when she saw a group of young fans visit him in prison, with one kissing the disgraced Lostprophets frontman

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9 d. ago Mystery visitors plunged Maxwell’s Texas prison camp into lockdown as inmates complain of preferential treatment, report says

Maxwell had a mysterious meeting in the prison’s chapel that prevented other inmates from getting their outdoor time, per the report

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1 week ago ‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for helpWhen film-makers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Alabama’s Easterling prison in 2019, they found a deceptively pleasant scene. Like Alabama’s 13 other prisons, Easterling largely prohibits media access, but allowed the documentarians to film its annual volunteer-run barbecue, a sunny day in which incarcerated men, most of them Black, ate fresh roasts to live music and sermons. On camera, men danced and smiled. But off camera, many more told a different story – horrific beatings, unreported stabbings, unimaginable violence swept under the rug and appalling conditions that “ain’t fit for human society”. Cries for help emerged from inside the sweltering, filthy dorms. When Jarecki approached the voices, a prison official shut down filming, claiming that it was unsafe for him to speak to the men without a police chaperone.“It was very clear that there were are...

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1 week ago Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's English neighbours reveal all about their new life in Cotswolds after couple fled the United States following Donald Trump's reelection

Former talk show host DeGeneres and her actress wife have traded their glamorous lives in southern California for a more sedate way of life in the Cotswolds.

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1 week ago Inside glamorous life of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber's 'nepo baby' daughter Kai as she wows at fashion week

From her impressive career to her lavish upbringing in the Hamptons, here's everything we know about the 16-year-old.

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2 w. ago Man accused of murdering mother and her three children died of heart attack after collapsing in prison minutes after visit from his family, inquest hears

Mohammed Shabir, 45, was due to go on trial later this year for the murders of Bryonie Gawith, 29, Denisty Birtle, nine, Oscar Birtle, five, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle, who died in the blaze last year.

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2 w. ago Emmerdale viewers 'rumble' Kev's big secret that could lead to Aaron 'showdown'

Emmerdale's Kev is set to drop a huge bombshell on husband Robert when he visits him in prison next week - and fans are convinced that they know what it really is

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2 w. ago ‘Dior is drama’: Jonathan Anderson goes for the jugular at Paris fashion week

All eyes were on the Northern Irish designer’s debut – not just to reinvent Dior, but to jolt fashion itself out of its slumpIt was the biggest Paris fashion week moment in years. There were two best actress Oscar winners in the audience (Mikey Madison, Charlize Theron) and the daughter of a third (Sunday Rose Kidman Urban) on the catwalk. There were so many K-pop stars that the teenagers of Paris had packed out the Tuileries gardens from dawn.The French first ladies Brigitte Macron and Carla Bruni, both embroiled in news-making storylines of their own, chatted in the front row. The film-maker Luca Guadagnino designed the stage set around an upside-down glass pyramid directly invoking the Louvre, that shimmering icon of modern Paris. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Carla Bruni parties like she hasn't got a care in the world at Paris fashion show just days after Nicolas Sarkozy gets five

The former First Lady was photographed smiling and chatting with guests at the Saint Laurent event while her husband, 70, prepares to appeal against his conviction.

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3 w. ago Kate Moss in nothing but Le Smoking jacket, Madonna kissing Lourdes and Carla Bruni's brave face

No expense was spared at the Yves Saint Laurent show in Paris last night, which featured the Eiffel Tower as a dramatic backdrop and the YSL logo traced out in banks of white hydrangeas.

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3 w. ago 'Fiercely loyal' Carla Bruni 'will visit her husband France's ex

Carla Bruni will 'visit her husband Nicolas Sarkozy every day' throughout his five-year prison sentence, according to her biographer writing in the Times.

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3 w. ago Fuming Carla Bruni rips off reporter's microphone after Nicolas Sarkozy rants at journalists following five

Supermodel Carla Bruni could spend up to 20 years behind bars after she was dragged into a fraud scandal involving her husband, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

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