Carla Bruni and her sister Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, an actress and filmmaker, in 2002, Paris The relationship between Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni threw a spotlight on the family of the former model, the Bruni-Tedeschi, large industrial north of Italy who are expatriates in Paris in the 70s, because they feared their child was abducted by the Red Brigades. The paternal grandfather of Carla Bruni, Virginio Bruni-Tedeschi, was founded in year 20, in Turin, the AEC (Cavi Electric Affini Torino), a company specialized in tires and electrical cables for the automotive industry. TAEC moved up into the second largest manufacturers of tires Peninsula, before Carla’s father, Alberto, do not sell Pirelli, its main Italian rival, after his departure for France..
Tedeschi is a Jewish name in northern Italy. My grandfather was converted during the war and married a Catholic, which led to his being banned by the Jewish community of Turin, explained in November 2007, the magazine L’Express, Valeria Bruni -Tedeschi, Carla’s sister, actress and filmmaker of blockbusters. Carla and Valeria (and a brother, Virginio, who died in 2006) lived in Turin surrounded by bodyguards, has told the Italian newspaper La Stampa the nanny Carla Maria Anna of the days Parolin, now aged 84 years.
Alberto Bruni was then known in France as a successful composer and art collector, at the same time it provided a time artistic director of Lyric Theatre of Turin. He died in 1996. Carla’s mother, Marisa, pianist, dreamed for his children to prestigious marriages, has also tells the nanny La Stampa. When the family lived at his residence in Cape Negro, on the Riviera, she hoped that her children become friends with children Grimaldi, Caroline, Stephanie and Albert of Monaco, Maria Anna Parolin has said.