PHOTOS – Inseparable Cécilia and Richard Attias: from Paris to New York, a look back at a love that lasts

On October 18, 2007, Cécilia gave up everything to follow her heart and have a perfect love with Richard Attias. It all started in 2004, when his long meeting with the “obvious” advertiser seemed to be for the technical advisor of the UMP. In 2005, the scandal began: France discovered a cover-up Paris game Cecilia, the future first lady”divorce from Nicolas Sarkozy” to join the communication ace, Richard Attias. Photos show her in New York with a businessman fueling rumors of infidelity. Undoubtedly, the future presidential couple is in trouble. Despite everything, she decides to run the presidential campaign with her, but even if the couple tried to keep up, Cécilia and Nicolas Sarkozy will end up. formal separation through a press release. The first for a head of state.

“Over the years, because I was always there, Nicolas had somehow forgotten me, she later wrote, in a passage cited by Robert Schneider in his book, The first woman. “He wanted me by his side even though, in a way, he wasn’t with me anymore.” One sentence would be pushed Louis’s mother leave her once and for all. “She admitted to a close friend that it was July 14, after he publicly said: ‘My wife is not beautiful!’ that she decided to leave.” It was at the end far from the Elysée that Cécilia found her calling her. The one who never regretted ending thirteen years of marriage, she started her new life with Richard Attias in New York. On March 23, 2008, Louis’ mother got married on the 65th floor of the Rockefeller Center, in the middle of Manhattan.

>> PHOTOS – Cécilia and Richard Attias: a look back at a love story that will last

“My marriage caused discomfort around me”

After the first disappointing experience in Dubai, the couple settled permanently in New York and the correspondent founded the company Richard Attias & Associates, where his daughter Alexandra currently works. For her part, Cécilia, eager to build something, “I could no longer stand going in circles in this island where my son was unhappy and where I had a sense of not building anything“. Therefore, she created a foundation to help women whose main goal is to improve their living conditions, especially in the third world. Helping each other in their own projects, they are now creating “team.”

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