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Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The rise and fall of France's golden couple
Diary of an MP’s Wife, in an entry for 2010.Thirteen years, one presidency and two election defeats (in 2012, and in the 2017 Republican primaries) later, Bruni and Sarkozy are still married, and by all accounts, closer than ever. This is despite the pair facing the ultimate relationship test – a string of legal challenges, brought about, Sarkozy claims, by ‘activist judges’, all of which he has strongly denied.None of the investigations, of which there have been half a dozen, have ever come to anything – that is, until earlier this year when the former President’s luck ran out and he was finally convicted of trying to bribe a judge in 2014, two years after he left power.