“I miss you every day.” Carla Bruni-Sarkozy paid tribute to her dead brother.

For years, he was the only one in his clan who carried this heavy secret. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy actually found out that her half-brother Virginio Bruni-Tedeschi was suffering from AIDS. An illness he succumbed to in 2006. Three years later, he spoke about this secret in France Culture. “He contracted HIV very, very early,” he confided at the time. For some reason, which I still don’t understand today, he told me only in the whole family. So we spent many, many years where I was the only one who knew he had this disease, which was like a reaper at the time.’

After the disappearance of the photographer from Turin, the singer does not miss the opportunity to pay tribute to him. He thus posted on his Instagram account on Wednesday, September 20, what would have been 63^e on his half-brother’s birthday. “Today you would have turned 63, my brother… he wrote in the caption of the post. But I miss you everyday #virginiobrunitedeschi️ #fratellomaggiore #monfrere #mybrother #gonetoosoon”.

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Message decorated with two vintage photos. A sepia portrait of Virginio with medium-length hair and translucent eyes, and a black and white photo of the two shirtless, with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s chest blurred out. A post that has already been “liked” by more than 19,600 people. In 2008, the artist dedicated a song. Hello Marie, to this lost brother. In the same year, he was appointed as the ambassador of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The model grew up alongside her half-brother, born to her mother Marisa Borini and Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi and their sister Valeria. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, however, eventually revealed that Alberto was not her real father, none other than Brazilian businessman Maurizio Remmert. In his autobiography A castle in ItalyValeria Bruni Tedeschi also resembles this beloved brother, played on screen by Filippo Timi.

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