Cécilia Attias (born 12 November 1957, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) was the second wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy married Richard Attias, Executive Chairman of The Experience, and events management company, on March 23 2008, in New York's Rockefeller Center.
The former first lady of France was born Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz. Her father, André Ciganer (born Aron Chouganov)...
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Cécilia Attias (born 12 November 1957, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) was the second wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy married Richard Attias, Executive Chairman of The Experience, and events management company, on March 23 2008, in New York's Rockefeller Center.
The former first lady of France was born Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz. Her father, André Ciganer (born Aron Chouganov) was a Moldovan immigrant believed to be of Jewish and Roma origin, who was born in Bălţi, Moldova in 1898. 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 Teresita (a.k.a. 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 the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.
Cécilia Sarkozy has three older brothers:
Born with a heart defect, she...
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