*Inshallah.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g4b19hTicb8r4Ck_bf6gUhCtJGiA
Carla Bruni's Italian castle sold: report
ROME (AFP) — French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's family castle in Italy has been sold to an Arab sheikh for nine million euros, Italian daily La Stampa reported Wednesday.
"Yes, we have finally found a buyer," said mother Marisa Bruni Tedeschi. "After all, we had finished with Castagneto Po, nobody went there any more," she added.
The 40-room, 1,500-square-metre residence and grounds were bought by industrialist heir and father Alberto Bruni Tedeschi in 1952. The castle – repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt – is believed to first date from the year 1019. (((Not really a "family castle" then, just a castle picked up by the clan in the 50s.)))
Castagneto Po's furniture and fittings had already fetched 10 million euros (12.85 million dollars) at auction in London, the paper said. (((Y'know, you're a long-haired girl with a guitar, you decide to move in with some guy in a palace, sometimes you have to sell-off the furniture for your mom's castle. It's what grownups have to do. Marriage is a sacrament with compromise and sacrifice.)))
The property was jointly owned by the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, her mother and film actress and director sister Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
(((I just made an Air France telephone reservation, and I could swear that their muzak was Carla Bruni. Seriously, I really think that crooning chanteuse was her.)))
