A handout photo, provided to the media on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, shows a photograph by Michel Comte of Carla Bruni. Source: Christie's via Bloomberg News Naked Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Photo Sale Proceeds to Go to Charity
By Matthias Schatz
March 28 (Bloomberg) -- The sale of a nude photograph of France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is to benefit charity and not its owner, Christie's International said today.
Art collector Gert Elfering has decided the proceeds from the picture's sale at a New York auction on April 10 will go to the Fondation Kantha Bopha, a Swiss charity that supports sick children in Cambodia, Christie's said.
The gelatin silver print was taken in 1993 by photographer Michel Comte and consigned for sale by Elfering when the former Italian model was not even engaged to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Christie's spokeswoman Milena Sales said in an e-mail.
She said the decision to give the money to charity was "in light of recent events.'' The picture produced headlines around the world as the Sarkozys went on a two-day state visit to the U.K. The auction house estimate for the photo is $3,000 to $4,000.
Sarkozy married the singer and former model Carla Bruni in February after divorcing his second wife, Cecilia, in October.
Elfering did not immediately return a call to his mobile phone.
To contact the reporter on this story: Matthias Schatz in London at
Mschatz1@bloomberg.net
Art collector Gert Elfering has decided the proceeds from the picture's sale at a New York auction on April 10 will go to the Fondation Kantha Bopha, a Swiss charity that supports sick children in Cambodia, Christie's said.
The gelatin silver print was taken in 1993 by photographer Michel Comte and consigned for sale by Elfering when the former Italian model was not even engaged to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Christie's spokeswoman Milena Sales said in an e-mail.
She said the decision to give the money to charity was "in light of recent events.'' The picture produced headlines around the world as the Sarkozys went on a two-day state visit to the U.K. The auction house estimate for the photo is $3,000 to $4,000.
Sarkozy married the singer and former model Carla Bruni in February after divorcing his second wife, Cecilia, in October.
Elfering did not immediately return a call to his mobile phone.
To contact the reporter on this story: Matthias Schatz in London at
Mschatz1@bloomberg.net
19 comments:
Might be the 1st time ever in world history that 1st Lady of France decided to auction her own nude photos for cause of charity, whilst most Hollywood celebraties are trying to quietly buy back all nude photos from being published in Magazines.
Thank you for your kind thought and generosity.
Yeah, and I hope you don't expect our first lady to do the same to raise money, no way, Jose.
It's not a naked photo. Anyway nake or not naked we are the same!
Mate 10:36 AM.
How about the nude picture of Khmer 1st lady Bunrani Hunsen?
LOL LOL LOL LOL. Yike I will throw up is I see her big fat belly. LOL LOL
No we are not the same, everyone DNA is different. The only thing we have in common are carbon based compound elements.
Wrong, 11:02, our first lady doesn't have fat belly or fat anything. She's what we considered perfect.
I must admit Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is a very beautiful and sexy lady! She has such a big kind heart for her to go that far just help another human being!
I hope it is not a sin to look at beautiful naked woman body!
Sounds like someone (11:13) needed direction to the riverside badly. Help!
I went to Middle east for more than a month, my what I saw? Too many beautiful women in Iran. I didn't want my head chopped so I could only looked at them.
I met Hun Sen's wife a couple time. She is better than before but still fat and ugly.
Wrong, you have been living in the west for too long, and your brain and vision have been impaired severely by it.
It is better to buy a pic of a dog rather than to buy a nude pic of Bun rany pig hun sen!haaaaaaaaaaa if she is going to auction her nude pic.
You don't know what you are missing, my friend (1:09).
The French sarkozy president is a connoisseur of the women!
What counts in woman, that it is corresponds in your taste,
isn't?
If you love women with big breasts, why not?
1156AM.
Bun Rany went to UK plastic Surgury many times, don't you know.
With all of that she is still fat and ugly. ROFL LOL LOL..
Hun Sen he is happy for having one eye poked, because he does not have to see his ugly fat wife clear.
No way, she's fairly young for Khmer. She doesn't need plastic surgery.
for a good cause, why not? after all the french first lady is so beautiful, she might as well use her natural beauty to benefit cambodia as french still have interest in cambodia like others. god bless cambodia.
There goes another one who haven't got laid for years. Even an old wrinkled grandma is beautiful to him. His brain is severely chemical imbalance and need help immediately.
I've seen one, I've seen them all; no difference, with the exception of sizes and shapes (otherwise everything should be the same).
It seems that rounded and hairy women are more faithful.
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