Aurélien Enthoven, the son of Carla Bruni, a YouTuber turned model

Some probably remember this bespectacled Youtuber, whose quirky videos were about veganism or feathered dinosaurs.

On the M-Gigantoraptor channel, created at the age of 14 with his friend Julien Kress, Aurélien Enthoven and the latter popularized scientific theories, such as that of Evolution, to the delight of their approximately 48,200 subscribers.

First steps as a model

Nine years after his debut on the platform, the child of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Raphaël Enthoven, (together from 2000 to 2007, after the former model left publisher Jean-Paul Enthoven for his son), has himself operated his moult.

Now 21, he made his modeling debut at the Versace Spring/Summer 2023 Menswear show, held on Saturday June 18 in Milan.

With his lacquered hair, his protruding jaw, his deployed build and his polo shirt with a flamboyant pattern, Aurélien Enthoven, born June 20, 2001, captured all eyes.

A performance hailed by his mother, who had herself paraded for the Italian house in a red corseted dress, in the 1990s. “Aurélien yesterday at the Versace show and me in 92: 30 years apart between these two photos, said she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post, comparing two shots.

Thank you dear Donatella for creating family memories for us.”

In early June, the model also celebrated the appearance of her son on the cover of

magazine .

We saw this paleontology enthusiast, immortalized in black and white by Marcus Cooper, posing in profile.

All adorned with an androgynous Victorian collar, signed Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.

This was the first cover of Aurélien Enthoven, worthy heir to the supermodel.

On video, Carla Bruni and her son Aurélien resume "Stand by Me" as a duet

"Stand by me"

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has already expressed her pride in her son many times.

Evidenced by a video posted by the former top in April 2021. We see the student at Sciences Po and Columbia accompanying him on the guitar on the title

.

“My favorite bassist has come home!” she captioned the post.

The departure of the young man for the university, in September 2019, has also left a great void, as evidenced by the title

, from the sixth album of the artist.

“Children take an astonishing place for which people like me are not at all prepared, underlined Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in

, in September 2020. I do not know who is prepared for it, moreover.

In any case, it takes the head and the heart well, and when they leave to live elsewhere, as it should, the room is suddenly empty and we say to ourselves that time is passing.

Online harassment

Exit the hooded sweatshirt, the cap and the glasses of high school student: the young man has therefore well and truly entered the impetuous world of fashion.

And in that of higher education, “all the more time-consuming than high school”, he underlines in his last Youtube video, published two years ago.

Since then, he has not shared any, no doubt chilled by the anti-Semitic attacks made against him, after the publication on his channel of a long sequence on racism, in March 2018.

His objective then was to demonstrate that “races do not exist”.

In this video, he explained that he had contacted people who claimed "racist ideology", and told them that "French identity is not defined by skin color".

Exchanges that had ended in insults, formulated by his interlocutors, such as: “Ah yes, and white people are always the bad guys, huh.

Damn leftist m**de.”

The young man had at the time received hundreds of malicious messages.

The support of his parents

Then 16 years old, Aurélien Enthoven had subsequently announced on the set of "Daily" that he was filing a complaint against his harassers.

A troubled period, during which he had once again been able to count on the public support of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

“So proud of my son Aurélien Enthoven, who for five years with his friend Julien Kress, publishes videos on their YouTube channel

, she said.

Proud of her fight against ignorance, received ideas, racism and stupidity.

Proud of her passion for science and for the truth and, finally, proud of her courage.”

For his part, his father Raphaël Enthoven also denounced these attacks in a tweet.

"The authors will repent," he said.

Despite this controversy, Aurélien Enthoven had subsequently published a dozen other videos, the last of which dates from January 2020, and relates to American conservatism.

Since then, radio silence.

“Fruitful” debates

Very affected at the time, Aurélien Enthoven seems to have rebuilt himself.

On the private side, he formalized his relationship with Defne Demirdelen, a young woman he met at Columbia.

In photos shared with his 11,800 Instagram subscribers, he appears hugging his girlfriend while on vacation in Punta Cana, walking with her or immortalizing one of their restaurant outings.

A news welcomed with joy by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, quick to comment “Very beautiful!”

under one of their publications.

In march 2021, the former top was a bit less enthusiastic about the political commitments of his son.

The 50-year-old then declared in the Spanish version of

that Aurélien Enthoven was “sovereignist”.

An “astonishing” commitment, according to the ex-model, given the environment in which the student grew up.

“He is not on the right, he is not really Republican, but anti-European”, she specified about the one who registered in October 2017 with the Union Populaire Républicaine (UPR), and supports François Asselineau, according to Le

.

"I don't care, my ideas are independent of those of my parents", confided the main interested party, who intended to "commit to sovereignty and the fight against obscurantism".

His decision had "provoked fruitful debates" with his father, he revealed in the columns of the daily.

Her mother didn't care.

Just like his stepfather, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Who, however, has never been seen in public with the UPR tie which Aurélien Enthoven would have given him.