The New Nation - Internet Edition

PARIS: French newspapers reported Monday that President Nicolas Sarkozy is romancing supermodel-turned-pop singer Carla Bruni, just two months after his divorce.Sar-kozy, 52, and Bruni, 38, were photograp-hed together at the Disneyland theme park near Paris on Saturday, although none of the photos showed them any closer than shoulder-to-shoulder. The Elysee Palace would not comment on the photographs, but L'Express magazine editor Christophe Barbier told French television that Bruni-who has in the past dated rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton-confirmed to him that she is romantically involved with Sarkozy. "She told me that the publicity surrounding this story did not bother her and that from now on, it would become an affair, a public love story," he told LCI television. "We must now wait and see how far the president will go in presenting Carla Bruni officially" as his companion, Barbier added. Bruni, who will be 39 on Sunday, was born in Italy and is the heiress to a tyre manufacturing fortune.