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Raphael and his wife later went their separate ways.Ī year after giving birth to Aurélien Carla released her debut album Quelqu\'un m\'a dit.
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At the time she was living with French writer Jean-Paul Enthoven with whose married philosopher son Raphael she had a baby, Aurélien, in 2001. Success gave her the opportunity to turn her hand to her first love - music. With her modelling career came a jet-set lifestyle and Carla was soon splitting her time between New York, London, Paris and Milan, and dating a string of high-profile men, including rockers Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, and entrepreneur Donald Trump.īy the end of the Nineties she was one of the world\'s highest-paid models, reportedly earning $7.5 million in 1998 alone. "Even when I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue," she once admitted.
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While she gave up further education for life on the runways, Carla\'s passion for the arts remained strong. Lucrative high-profile contracts with major fashion houses and designers such as Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel and Versace followed. Signed by a top agency, she was soon modelling in an ad campaign for Guess jeans. Carla remained in the country until she went to boarding school in Switzerland, returning as a teen to study in Paris.Īged 19, the aspiring catwalk queen gave up her studies in art and architecture to pursue a career as a full-time model. When she was five concern over the kidnapping threat then prevalent in Italy led the family to move to France. She was born on December 1967 in Turin, the youngest of three children in a family which had built its wealth on tyre manufacturing.