New York: The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to remarry in New York this weekend, according to a report on a US website for French expatriates living in the city.

Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz was to tie the knot on Sunday with events organiser Richard Attias, for whom she briefly left Sarkozy in 2005,followed by a reception for 150 guests at Manhattan s Rockefeller Center, said the report which was published yesterday.

A reporter for the website said the information came from a source close to the couple who did not want to be named. Precise details of the actual ceremony, however, were not immediately known.

According to French Morning, the couple were to hold a party today at Attias s home in Greenwich, Connecticut, one of the toniest towns in the United States, and to take in a Broadway show with a group of friends tomorrow.

French weekly Paris-Match linked the couple in 2005 with a photo of them together in New York, while the US press recently showed the couple at the city s Plaza Hotel, where they were reported to be looking at an apartment.

Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Sarkozy s ex-wife, 50,was to marry Moroccan-born Attias, 48,and Italian fashion house Versace said earlier this month it would be dressing the couple for the occasion.

Ciganer-Albeniz and Sarkozy announced their divorce on October 18,ending a stormy 11-year marriage. The couple had one son, Louis, together.

Sarkozy, 53,married Carla Bruni, the Italian-born former supermodel turned singer-songwriter, in February, less than four months after his divorce.

Source : PTI