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France isn’t a betting country, but when Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni decided to get married in 2008, after a two-month courtship, many people were already starting to guess the likely divorce date.
These two, the siren supermodel and the twice-married “President Bling-Bling” – a nickname given to him by the press due to his fondness for Rolex watches, gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses and hobnobbing with moguls – were publicity hounds, the perceived wisdom went. She loved power, he loved young women. It would never last.
“She’ll drop him if he loses in 2012,” a politician friend told me knowingly (Republican Sarkozy ending up losing the presidential election to his Socialist opponent François Hollande denying him a second term in office).
