Supermodel, singer and former first lady of France Carla Bruni, 57, must have been hoping to continue enjoying her glamorous Parisian life. Instead, last month she tearfully kissed her husband goodbye as he checked in for a five-year jail sentence at La Santé, France’s most infamous prison.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, was been convicted of conspiring to raise campaign funds from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Bruni herself is also currently under investigation for alleged witness tampering and participating in a criminal association over a campaign to keep Sarkozy out of prison, which she denies. Sarkozy has now been released under strict supervision and is banned from leaving France while he awaits an appeal trial set to take place in March. He described his time in solitary confinement as ‘gruelling’ and a ‘nightmare.’
