Cécilia Attias
Cécilia María Sara Isabel Attias (née Ciganer-Albéniz, previously Martin and Sarkozy) (born 12 November 1957) was the second spouse of French President Nicolas Sarkozy until October 2007.
Background
Cecilia Attias was born Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz. Her elderly father, André Ciganer (born Aron Chouganov), was a Moldovan immigrant born in Bălţi, Bessarabia in 1898 of Russian Jewish and Moldovan Romani lineage. He left home at the age of 13, just before the First World War. Ciganer moved to Paris, where he became a furrier. In 1937 he married Spanish-Belgian Diane Albéniz de Swert, a daughter of Alfonso Albéniz Jordana, a Spanish diplomat who played with Real Madrid in the early 1900s. Her maternal great-grandfather was the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.
Cécilia Sarkozy Attias has three older brothers:
Patrick Ciganer-Albeniz is a program executive officer of the Integrative Financial Management Program of NASA.
Christian Ciganer-Albéniz is a consultant for companies such as Framatome, AXA, Lagardère, Crédit Foncier, Accor, and Aurel Conseil.