A nude photo of ex-model and current French First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is going up for sale. And, no, it’s not of the scandalous “stolen camera”/ex-boyfriend variety.
“Carla Bruni in Bed” — a tasteful black and white image captured by the soft and feminine lens of legendary photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994 — depicts the then model with nothing more than white sheets strategically covering her nether regions.
According to The Daily Beast, one of the ten numbered prints went up for auction on June 4 at Villa Grisebach Auktionen, a Berlin auction house, with bids starting at $3,380.
Last year’s Bruni in the buff photo sold for a whopping $91,000 at a New York auction, but this photo didn’t generate quite as much cash, selling for $19,600 to an anonymous bidder.
The real question is whether hubby and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was the anonymous bidder. Would he outbid everyone to take home what he gets to see everyday for free?
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady of France has been awarded $57,500 in damages after she sued Pardon, a clothing company who used her 1993 nude photo on their white canvas shopping bags.
The former model, now married to the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, posed nude for photographer Michel Comte in an an anti-AIDS campaign back in 1993.
The lawsuit was filed last week and her lawyer said, “neither Mrs. Carla Bruni nor the photographer has given consent for the use of the photo, [they] did not want this goal to be hijacked.”
The owner of Pardon, Peter Mertes, said that they had removed 10,000 bags and had planned to burn all of the bags, on the courts decision for the money to be awarded he said they would appeal the money – because the sum was too large for a “small blunder.”
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The judge said “the unauthorized use of the image of Carla Bruni caused her moral and economic damage.” All money awarded is expected to be donated to charity, according to her lawyers.
I always feel unsympathetic when old images of celebrities are leaked, but since it was for charity then I’m glad Carla Bruni-Sarkozy won the money.
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