The breakup was hard to take. In 1988, Cécilia left Jacques Martin and fell in love with another man. The new chosen one of his heart? You know, it was Nicolas Sarkozy. However, it is the former President of the Republic who had celebrated the marriage ceremony of the facilitator. He was even the godfather of the couple’s two daughters, Judith, born in 1984 and Jeanne-Marie, in 1987. For many, the shortcut was quickly made: Cécilia would have passed from one to the other without any transition. But on the set of the show At Jordan’s, David Martin wanted to restore a certain truth.
I am not talking about Nicolas Sarkozy. I’m talking about Cecilia
The son of Jacques Martin, a cook by profession, has actually agreed to discuss this difficult period for all branches of the family. “I am not talking about Nicolas Sarkozy. I’m talking about Ceciliahe explained. That’s what people see and that’s what came out, what’s published. It’s history. Now there is an internal story and it is less clear-cut than that and I remain very evasive. Elise, the eldest daughter of Jacques Martin, evoked a feeling of betrayal, a “double jeopardy” suffered by his father who lost a wife and a friend at the same time in the documentary Jacques Martin: Behind your applause. However, David Martin does not seem to harbor any animosity towards his former mother-in-law.
“Cécilia put up with things and did a job that few people know about, he assures. She is deserving. But that remains between the eyes of those who know a little history. She has been there. She’s been there as far as she could be. So afterwards, what we see from the outside is not necessarily a reflection of what really happened. One can understand the heartache of a separation that I would describe as not very private.” It was a blessing in disguise, no doubt, for Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz. Separated but not divorced from Nicolas Sarkozy at first, she settled with the publicist Richard Attias, in New York, Paris and Dubai, according to the time, the desires and the professional obligations. The couple got married on March 23, 2008 and seem, in 2022, still as united. Cécilia and Nicolas were seen reunited recently, for the marriage of their son Louis to Natali Husic.