Taki Taki

Bad taste in ‘ladies’

The funny thing about Sarkozy being president of France is not his size, but his family.

issue 26 May 2007

New York

The funny thing about Sarkozy being president of France is not his size, but his family. His father, Pal Sarkozy, used to frequent the same nightclubs as I did back in the early Sixties. Of the ‘beau monde’ he was not. Pal was sort of sleazy, and sort of a conman, and sort of a playboy. None of us knew what he did, and by that I don’t mean to suggest he was dishonest, but there were always rumours about him. An inveterate womaniser, a good thing for a father of a French president to be, his women, alas, were a pretty lousy bunch. Except for one of them, Beatrice de M, a close friend of mine whom he promised a trip to the altar but then dropped, most of his ladies were not ladies.

His third wife was the sister of a very old buddy of mine, Bernard de Ganay, and she was the worst of a bad lot.

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