Carla Bruni looked more youthful than ever as she attended Saint Laurent’s spring/summer 2025 womenswear show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.
The former supermodel and 56-year-old first lady of France looked radiant as she posed for photos at the event with her smooth skin.
Carla looked sexy as she wore a nude bodysuit under a sheer gray skirt, which showed off her long, lean legs.
She completed her look with a fur coat and accentuated her height with a pair of high, shiny black heels, posing like a whirlwind.
Carla wore her red locks in loose waves and opted for a subdued makeup look with a hint of light pink lipstick.
Carla Bruni looked more youthful than ever as she attended the Saint Laurent womenswear spring/summer 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday
Carla cut a sexy figure as she showed off a nude bodysuit through a sheer gray skirt, highlighting her long and lean legs
This came after Carla was charged with corruption offences in July, for which she could face a prison sentence.
She is alleged to have been involved in a criminal plot to launder money for her husband, former President Nicolas Sarkozy, 69. Sarkozy is alleged to have accepted millions in cash from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
In July – after Bruni had been questioned by investigating judges – a judicial source in Paris reported that she was being prosecuted for “witness manipulation and fraud within an organised gang”.
Both very serious offences can be punished with up to 10 years in prison, while sentences can increase to 20 years for aggravating circumstances such as gang membership.
Bruni is specifically accused of being part of a £4 million campaign dubbed ‘Operation Save Sarko’ – a complex and illegal plan to keep Sarkozy, who is already a convicted criminal, out of jail.
Bruni was “placed under judicial supervision and given a ban on contact with all those involved in the case” except her husband, the source told AFP news agency.
The bail conditions will remain in effect until Bruni appears in court.
Bruni, who is working with agents from France’s Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Crimes, has not yet commented.
Bruni is a close friend of Mimi Marchand, a French media fixer who is formally under investigation in the same case for “witness manipulation” and “criminal corruption.”
The former supermodel and 56-year-old French first lady looked radiant as she showed off smooth skin while posing for snaps at the event
Marchand, 77 and nicknamed “The Paparazzi Queen”, is accused of paying former French-Lebanese arms dealer Ziad Takieddine, 74, to cancel a will stating that he had diverted millions of dollars from Colonel Gaddafi to Sarkozy.
In an interview published in Paris Match magazine four years ago, Takieddine retracted his claim that suitcases full of money had been delivered to Sarkozy’s colleagues.
The money was used to finance the 2007 election campaign in which Sarkozy won his only term as president of France, it was claimed.
Sarkozy used the 2020 interview to falsely claim that he was acquitted because “the truth was out.”
But Marchand – who also denies any wrongdoing – allegedly offered Takieddine to change his story, according to prosecutors.
The Bruni case has been dubbed “Operation Save Sarko” and runs parallel to the Libyan financing case, for which Sarkozy has already been charged.
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, Takieddine, who is currently in Lebanon, is said to have been paid the equivalent of £4 million to ‘change his story’.
Bruni has consistently denied any involvement in “Operation Save Sarko”, saying she is trying to avoid legal action against her husband, who has been convicted twice so far.
She said earlier: ‘When people talk to me about it, I get angry and resentful and that doesn’t help my husband.’
Bruni added: ‘I am absolutely not curious about my husband’s affairs.’
But investigators allege Bruni deleted all messages she exchanged with Marchand through the encrypted app Signal before Marchand was charged in June 2021.
Sarkozy has been charged with corruption, “illegal financing of an election campaign”, “receiving embezzled public funds” and “criminal conspiracy” in connection with the Gaddafi scandal. He will stand trial next year.
Three of his former ministers – Brice Hortefeux, Claude Guéant and Éric Woerth – are also under investigation.
In January, Sarkozy failed to overturn a criminal conviction and prison sentence for illegally financing his re-election campaign.
His lawyers had asked the Paris Court of Appeal to quash the one-year prison sentence, six months of which were suspended, but the judges ruled against it.
It followed a five-week trial at the city’s criminal court three years ago, when Sarkozy was found guilty of falsifying accounting records during his failed bid to become head of state in 2012.
Carla wore her red locks in loose waves and opted for a subdued makeup look, complete with a hint of pale pink lipstick.
Sarkozy, who was president of France for five years until 2012, served his sentence wearing an electronic bracelet in the Paris house where he lives with Bruni.
In March 2021, Sarkozy was also convicted of corruption and influence peddling. He was sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were suspended.
Sarkozy’s conservative predecessor as president of France, the late Jacques Chirac, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence in 2011 for corruption. However, this sentence related to his time as mayor of Paris.
The last French head of state to be sent to prison was Marshal Philippe Pétain, a Nazi collaborator during the war.