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Nothing seems to stop Aurélien Enthoven. At only 23 years old, the son of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Raphaël Enthoven already has several professional hats. After an internship within a prestigious French company during the summer of 2022, the student at Sciences Po Paris has just completed a new mission on the other side of the world for a large, renowned multinational… Enough to make his parents very proud!
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: after abandoning YouTube, what happens to her son Aurélien who has just returned from a mission in Africa?
This Monday, December 23, one more candle will be blown out, surrounded by loved ones. Determined to put aside the time of this birthday and the end-of-year celebrations, which could darken the family atmosphere, the interpreter of Most beautiful in the neighborhood something to consider the end of 2024 under excellent auspices. Her son Aurélien, whom she had twenty-three years ago with the philosopher, has just added a new prestigious line to his already extensive curriculum vitae.
After a two-month internship, in the summer of 2022, in the public affairs office of the flagship of the French hotel industry, Accor, it is from Tanzania that Aurélien has just returned after five months of mission as an intern associated with the Open Innovation & Fintech cluster of the Axian group. The opportunity for the young man with a well-made head to participate in a global reflection on “the transformation of our societies. How can we make digital, energy and financial inclusion possible for as many people as possible by adapting to the African context?”
Columbia University and prestigious internships for Aurélien Enthoven
On his LinkedIn professional profile, Aurélien Enthoven already displays seven professional experiences, not to mention his time at the prestigious Columbia Universitywhere he earned his degree in political science and government last year. During graduation in New York in April 2023, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy shared with her thousands of subscribers on Instagram posing at the exit of the ceremony. In the caption, the wife of could not contain her joy and pride: “Graduation time! Well done to you! I am a proud mother!”
It must be said that Aurélien Enthoven has never disappointed his famous mother. Everything he does tends towards success and nothing seems to stop him. Even when Donatella Versace decided to add him to the models parading for her spring-summer 2023 collection, the young man proved that he not only had a well-shaped head, but that the body followed suit too. A detail that did not escape the Saint Laurent house, which then had it paraded in the Moroccan desert of Agafay, making its mother, a model, over the moon.
Once again, Carla Bruni highlighted in the columns of Gala his pleasant surprise to see his son Aurélien () follow in his footsteps on the podiums: “I am delighted,” she declared to the weekly. It’s not his job to parade, but, like all young people, he is not against making a little pocket money to go on a trip with his friends or with his lover. And then, obviously, it’s fun for him and he’s met lots of people…”
It seems a long time ago when Aurélien Enthoven suffered from cyberharassment… In 2019, when he was trying to break through among French YouTubers via his channel M – Gigantoraptor (a laboratory where the young man shared his thoughts on the evolution of society), Giulia Sarkozy’s half-brother saw himself brutally targeted after a video in which he analyzed the rise of racism. Near 20 Minutesthe young man, then aged 17, testified: “I had been harassed several times before. Sometimes it’s very hurtful, especially when it comes to my family. Attacks on the physical, too, always please… It undermines morale. After the 50th time someone insults me, insults my parents, threatens me, calls me a dirty Jew… I’m tired of it.”
Carla Bruni: A mother proud of her son’s courage
A year later, still targeted on the Internet, Aurélien Enthoven accepted the invitation to appear on the set of Daily. “It’s not to attack my parents, it’s to attack me“, he explained to the ex-columnist of Grand Journal of Canal+, before confirming that he intended to file a complaint for anti-Semitic comments. Touched by the right words of this very young man, and defended him on social networks.
Carla Bruni, for her part, spoke on Instagram. Under a photo of her son taken during one of his YouTube videos, the mother wrote: “so proud of my son Aurélien Enthoven who, for five years, with his friend Julien Kress, has been publishing videos on their YouTube channel M-Gigantoraptor. Proud of her fight against ignorance, preconceived ideas, racism and stupidity. Proud of her passion for science and for truth, and finally proud of her courage.”
A period now well past, where, for her birthday and the end of year celebrations, on the arm of Nicolas Sarkozy during should renew her pride as a mother with her Aurélien, who nothing seems to resist…