Record sale naked Carla Bruni pic
Michael Comte
A naked photograph of Carla Bruni has been snapped up for £45,000. The First Lady of France was none too impressed when the photographed surfaced the day before she accompanied her husband, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, on a state trip to Britain. But a Chinese art collector will be very pleased it did ? he (or she) got a buyer to snap it up for £45,000 at Christie's in New York - 22 times the estimated price. The image of Bruni was taken by photographer Michael Comte in 1993, when she was a top model. The nude pic didn't, however, spoil her trip to England - the nation fell in love with her sophisticated Dior ensembles and so, by all accounts, did
Gordon Brown.