Nicolas Sarkozy 'spent $1,000 on New York takeaway' The restaurant's owner then cycled to her other restaurant, more than a mile away, to pick up Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy's pizzas and bring them back to the group. Mr Sarkozy's election defeat in May this year to Francois Hollande has forced him into something of a political retirement. However his appearance at the BTG Pactual conference, which was closed to the press and public, has sparked suggestions that he could be set to follow the example of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, both of whom went on to make enormous sums of money on the after-dinner speaking circuit after leaving office.