Sarkozy and Carla Bruni both having affairs???

The Elysee Palace refused to comment today on rumours swirling in Paris that the marriage of President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni is on the rocks, with both of them having affairs. 

The French media, usually reticent about prying into the private lives of public figures, have been reporting that Bruni is having an affair with the musician Benjamin Biolay (above right) and that her husband has turned for comfort to his ecology minister, Chantal Jouanno (above left).

The rumour first appeared on Twitter and then on the website of the French Sunday paper, Le Journal du Dimanche, which claimed dramatically that the presidential marriage was "breathing its last breaths". More...

Don't miss:

1. Sarkozy and Bruni spend $1,084 a day on ... flowers!!!
2. How Sarkozy boosts Bruni's singing career...
3. Carla Bruni, Rachida Dati, isn't French politics sexciting!!!
4. The French and the Carla effect...
5. The Mitterrand dynasty, scandals and hypocrisy...
6. Berlusconi, shapely women and entertaining the emperor...