Cécilia María Sara Isabel Attias (née Ciganer-Albéniz, previously Martin and Sarkozy) (born 12 November 1957) was the second wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy until October 2007.
She married Richard Attias, Executive Chairman of The Experience, an events management company, on 23 March 2008, in New York's Rockefeller Center.
Cecilia Attias was born Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz. Her elderly father, André Ciganer (born Aron Chou...
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Cécilia María Sara Isabel Attias (née Ciganer-Albéniz, previously Martin and Sarkozy) (born 12 November 1957) was the second wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy until October 2007.
She married Richard Attias, Executive Chairman of The Experience, an events management company, on 23 March 2008, in New York's Rockefeller Center.
Cecilia Attias was born Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz. Her elderly father, André Ciganer (born Aron Chouganov) was a Moldovan Jewish immigrant born in Bălţi, Bessarabia in 1898 of Russian and Romanian Jewish lineage, she believed that he was of Roma origin, because of the "Ciganer" surname; however it was later revealed that he was not. He left home at the age of 13, just before the First World War. Ciganer moved to Paris, where he became a furrier. In 1937 he married Spanish-Belgian Diane Albéniz de Swert, a daughter of Alfonso Albéniz Jordana, a Spanish diplomat who played with Real Madrid in the early 1900s. Her maternal great-grandfather was...
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