00:00 I miss you every day, Carla Bruni Sarkozy pays tribute to her deceased brother.
00:04 The singer posted on her Instagram account, on Wednesday, September 20,
00:13 photos of her half-brother Virginio, who disappeared in 2006.
00:17 She was, for years, the only one in her clan to wear this heavy secret.
00:24 Carla Bruni Sarkozy had indeed discovered that her half-brother Virginio Bruni Tedeschi was affected by AIDS.
00:31 A disease to which he succumbed in 2006.
00:37 Three years later, she mentioned this secret on France Culture.
00:41 "He caught HIV very, very early," she said.
00:48 "For a reason that still escapes me today, he only told me in the whole family."
00:54 "So we spent many, many years where I was the only one to know that he had this disease, which was like a scourge at that time."
01:03 Since the disappearance of the Turin photographer, the singer never misses an opportunity to pay tribute to him.
01:16 She thus celebrated on her Instagram account, on Wednesday, September 20, what would have been her half-brother's 63rd birthday.
01:25 "Today you would have been 63 years old my brother," she wrote in the post's legend.
01:34 "But you miss every day #VirginioBruniTedeschi #FratelloMajor #MyBrother and #MyBrother #GoneTooSoon."
01:45 .SalutMarin
01:47 A message adorned with two vintage clichés, a portrait of Virginio's feet, with long hair and translucent eyes, as well as a black and white photograph, on which both appear bare-chested, Carla Bruni Sarkozy's chest is blurred.
02:02 A post already liked by more than 19,600 people.
02:09 In 2008, the artist dedicated a song, "Salut Marin", to this missing brother.
02:15 The same year, she was named ambassador of the World AIDS, Tuberculosis and Paludism Foundation.
02:24 The mannequin had grown up alongside his half-brother, born of the relationship between their mother Marisa Borini and Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, and their sister Valeria.
02:37 Carla Bruni Sarkozy had nevertheless ended up discovering that Alberto was not her real father, the latter being none other than the Brazilian businessman Maurizio Ramer.
02:50 In his autobiographical film "A Castle in Italy", Valeria Bruni Tedeschi also evokes this beloved brother, embodied on the screen by Filippo Timi.
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