What does it mean to stand beside the most powerful or wealthy man in the world as a partner?
Traditionally, they have had no career of their own," wrote British author Mark Higgins in his 2004 biography "The Prime Minister's Women and a Husband," while playing the roles of "gracious hostess, practical manager, insightful advisor and empathetic listener.
Today, real-life political couples have shattered Mark Higgins' observations. The union of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with his current wife Kelly Simmonds, 24 years his junior, is an example.
When the romance with Symonds came to light in early 2019, Johnson was still in the midst of divorce proceedings with his second wife, who had been married for 25 years. At the time, Johnson, who was still running for the Conservative Party leadership, lived in his girlfriend's million-pound apartment and had neighbors call the police because the two were arguing too loudly and disturbing the public. After being successfully elected prime minister, Johnson, who had a bumper career, announced in February 2020 that his girlfriend was pregnant.
The BBC commented on this, "This is the first unmarried, cohabiting couple in the history of the Prime Minister's Office."
Of course, the "first girlfriend" who quickly took over the Prime Minister's Office is no small feat - Simmonds' father is Matthew Simmonds, one of the founders of the British newspaper The Independent, and his mother is a well-known newspaper lawyer. Simmonds himself is well known in British public relations circles, having worked as a press officer for the Conservative Party team.
Nowadays, many women are no longer willing to play the role of the green leaf around men who control money and power. They may not be as famous as the other half, but they are not "sweet", but full of energy and charm to convey to the outside world: I can not leave him, but he is high on me.
Jill Foyle: Sibling Love and White House Politics
In the male dominated political circles, women's introverted and unconfident characteristics make them slightly inferior in public. But Trump Jr. fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle is anything but ordinary - she has come out of the ring on fire with her deafening speeches.
On the first day of the Republican National Convention in August 2020, a red-clad Guilfoyle raised her arms from the stage and shouted, "Don't let them [Democrats] step on you." The shrill volume of sound paired with her pompous hand gestures made the speech clip go viral on social media, with one user describing it as, "I thought my cat was stuck in a blender."
Instead, Trump Jr. publicly issued fanboy-like praise: "This speech was incredibly good, and your passion for our country is boundless."
Trump Jr.'s praise did not simply come from a "lover's eye." Gilfoyle's experience as an anchor has always served him well. "She can make Donald Jr. more serious." In an interview with Business magazine, the New York publicist said that because of Guilfoyle's years of experience at Fox, "she helped Donald Jr. develop the robust, leadership style of television speaking that he has today.
If you look at the worldly sense of "right match," the eight-year-old, twice-divorced Guilfoyle and the early-forties Trump Jr. don't seem to be a good match. Her first husband, Gavin Newsom, was a Republican "nemesis" who served as mayor of San Francisco and was successfully elected governor of California in the 2018 midterm elections. three months after divorcing Newsom in 2006, Guilfoyle married a furniture businessman six years younger than her. The marriage lasted three years and the two have one son.
And according to the Washington Post, Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. met precisely because Guilfoyle's son and Trump Jr.'s oldest daughter attended the same private school in Manhattan, N.Y. In May 2018, three months after Trump Jr. filed for divorce from his ex-wife Vanessa, a fashion magazine broke the news that he had fallen in love with Guilfoyle.
Gilfoyle, who is eight years older than the man and has been divorced twice, and Trump Jr., who is in his early forties, do not seem to be a good match.
Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle, August 13, 2020
However, from a political perspective, this love affair certainly adds gold to both sides. The woman, a prosecutor by training and a news anchor for more than a decade, was a popular choice for Trump's press secretary back in 2017. in 2018, she served as vice president of a pro-Trump political group. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Guilfoyle, who attended events as Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, chaired the Trump Victory Finance Committee, which was responsible for the presidential campaign's fundraising activities.
However, Guilfoyle has recently been involved in public controversy as a result. On the first anniversary of the U.S. congressional riots, it was revealed that she, as Trump's chief fundraising officer, allegedly raised high amounts of money for the riots. According to ProPublica, she bragged to a Republican operative in a text message that she had raised $3 million for the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol and was trying to legally overthrow the U.S. government.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez
Lauren Sanchez: A helicopter love affair with the richest man
If Guilfoyle is a "man-catcher" in political circles, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' girlfriend Lauren Sanchez is a standard "celebrity catcher. When Bezos announced his divorce from his wife of 26 years in 2019, no one expected the low-key, secretive richest man to be so committed to entering a stable, intimate relationship with a divorcee.
A question on Quora, the U.S. version of Knowles, asked, "Who is Lauren Sanchez and what made her famous?" High praise for the answer read, "She's a news anchor in Los Angeles, but whatever she does, she'll be famous for being Jeff Bezos' girlfriend."
Lauren Sanchez, 53, began her career in journalism - she was the longtime anchor of Fox's "Good Morning L.A." In 2005, at age 36, Sanchez married top Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell, who has been described as In 2005, the 36-year-old Sanchez married top Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell, who is known as the man who "rewrote the Hollywood script".
The marriage, which lasted 14 years, was filed for divorce by Sanchez. But before the two finalized their divorce in October 2019, Sanchez had followed Bezos as a couple in the audience at Wimbledon in England in July of that year.
The duo's romance came to light in early 2019 when Bezos announced his divorce. At that time, only two things concerned the outside world: Why did Bezos divorce? How will the divorced property be divided?
The answer to the second question is obviously clearer and more decent: McKenzie, who is also the founder of Amazon, split 1/4 of their previously jointly held Amazon shares, or 4% of Amazon shares, worth about $38 billion (about 260 billion yuan), putting her on the list of the world's richest women. As for the reason for their breakup, several media outlets quickly broke the story pointing out: Bezos' extramarital affair.
The National Enquirer reported that they tracked Bezos and Sanchez as they cheated within their marriage - "across five states and 40,000 miles, following them on private jets, limousines, to romantic hiking meccas, five-star hotels for intimate dates, and back to their secluded love nest." The media outlet was soon accused by Bezos of using the story for "blackmail".
Aside from the anchorwoman, Sanchez is best known as a helicopter pilot.
Although the parties involved have strenuously denied it, several pieces of information point to a long-standing, ambiguous relationship between the two. In his new 2021 book, "The Liberation of Amazon: Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire," American bestselling author Brad Stone broke the news that Bezos, who has always hated helicopters, suddenly renewed his interest in them in the fall of 2018. In an interview with Stone, an Amazon executive said, "It's a thoughtful, unfathomable shift that requires deep thought."
After all, besides anchorwoman, Sanchez is best known for her label as a helicopter pilot. She served as an aviation consultant for acclaimed director Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film "Dunkirk.
In 2016, she founded an aerial filming company-"Black Calling"-that bills itself as the first woman-owned aerial film and production company. "There are no size restrictions on flying a helicopter. You can be 4 feet, 6 feet, 5 feet. There's no reason why more women can't get involved." Sanchez said in a 2017 interview. Bezos had reportedly hired the aerial photography company to film rocket test flights for his Blue Origin space company.
Two years after their steady public love affair, the two seem to be sizzling even more. On Bezos' 58th birthday, Jan. 12, Sanchez celebrated his birthday on social media with a long love note - "If I could make a wish while orbiting the sun, it would be that the world would see you (Bezos) through my eyes. Yes, everyone knows you're brilliant, but they don't always see your heart the way my eyes do ......"
Bruni: The dogged love affair of a former first lady
Also a woman long ensconced in international media headlines is former French First Lady Carla Bruni. Before she married then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Brünni was famous for her status as a model, singer and "the most beautiful face in the world". The French media even gave her the nickname Men-eater, meaning that she was so glamorous that it was hard for men not to fall in love with her.
Before her marriage to Sarkozy in 2008, the Italian woman was married to a philosopher named Raphael Antoine. This relationship also put Bruni under fire because she was also in a relationship with Raffaele Antoine's father, Paolo Antoine. But she fell in love with Raphael when the man was still married and later divorced for her.
Sarkozy and Bruni
Bruni walks the runway at Paris Fashion Week on September 29, 2021. She is still active in fashion shows and as a singer
The French media even gave her the nickname Men-eater.
The father and son are not the only men who have been charmed by Bruni's charms, many famous personalities from Europe and the United States are among her ex-boyfriends: French actor Vincent Perez, Oscar winner Kevin Costner, among others. She also intervened in Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger's relationship with his longtime live-in partner, American model Jerry Hall, who broke up with Jagger in 1999. Interestingly, the 1m83m Jerry Hall remarried almost 20 years later (2016) to media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Unlike the glamorous stars of Vanity Fair, Bruni was born into an artistic family, with a deep love for music and art, and after becoming a world-famous model at the age of 19, she remained a "young woman" - she loved reading serious literature and singing. When she turned 30 in 1997, she quit the fashion industry and released her first album, which was the number one seller in France, thus transforming herself into a singer.
In an interview, she said, "Even backstage at a fashion show, when I have time, I find a copy of ELLE or Vogue magazine as a shield, with a Dostoevsky novel inside to read secretly."
The marriage with the French president came about when both parties fell in love at first sight. at the end of 2007, divorced for more than a year, Brünni met Sarkozy, who had just been divorced for a month, at a dinner party, and then entered into a honeymoon. The couple married three months later in a flash and became a worldwide sensation. Sarkozy's friends were caught up in the media and said, "He was so happy that for men, Carla Bruni is like a Rolex, a symbol of status and competence."
And Bruni once explained in an interview that the reason for her attraction to Sarkozy was that - "I was being taken for a walk in the gardens of the Elysee Palace, and he could constantly name the flowers in his path. He knew the Latin names of all the flowers, knew all the details about tulips and roses." During an appearance on the American TV show "The Ellen Show" in 2014, she confessed that Sarkozy was a cool guy who "tolerated my weird ideas and always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do.
Fourteen years later, Brünni is still active in the world of fashion shows and singers, while her husband Sarkozy is embroiled in a political scandal. Since 2021, Sarkozy has been tried repeatedly for allegedly illegally using 2012 presidential campaign funds and trying to illegally influence judges during his presidency, among other corruption cases.
But as Bruni once said in an interview with Chinese actor Tian Parkjun, "It's his business for my husband to be president, and it doesn't bring me any bad aspects because the pressure is not on me", the legendary woman still chooses to focus on love, stand by her lover and repeatedly stand up for her husband.
