ROME: French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy s family castle in Italy has been sold to an Arab sheikh for ?9 million, 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.
Castagneto Po s furniture and fittings had already fetched ?10 million ($12.85 million) at auction in London, the paper said.
The property was jointly owned by the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, her mother and film actress and director sister Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.-AFP
