As the love affair of French president Nicolas Sarkozy with Carla Bruni made a nice colour story for the media, the Italian ex-model’s family has come under scrutiny with fresh claims that her father was millionaire Maurizio Remmert and not Italian tycoon Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.

Remmert has reportedly confessed that Sarkozy’s lover is his love-child, the Daily Mail reported said.
Breaking his 40-year silence, Remmert allegedly admitted that Bruni was the result of a secret six-year affair he had with her mother, Marisa. ‘’I have known Carla was my daughter since she was born,’’ he said. The romance began in Turin in the ‘60s, where she was a concert pianist, while he a classical guitarist. The businessman claimed that Alberto may have been in the dark about his wife’s infidelity at the time, and possibly did not suspect the baby was not his. Remmert alleged that Carla’s mother broke the news when her husband was dying.

Italian author Gian Piero Bona, however, said Alberto was aware of the situation and passed on the shocking news to Carla on his deathbed.