Jean Sarkozy

In 2009, Sarkozy was nominated to become the head of EPAD [fr] , the development agency for La Défense. Located in the Paris metropolitan area, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district, also visited by millions of tourists annually, with the EPAD agency managing an annual budget of more than one billion Euros. French and international newspapers ran stories examining the link between the nomination and Sarkozy's father's Presidency. Criticism has been made about the obvious lack of academic qualities and professional experience for such a high position. An online petition against the nomination received 10,000 signatures a day. In October 2009, a survey found that 64% of French people opposed EPAD's hiring of Sarkozy.

Jean Sarkozy was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and educated at the Lycée Pasteur. He married Jessica Sebaoun-Darty on 10 September 2008 at the Neuilly-sur-Seine city hall. She gave birth to their first child—a son, Solal Nicolas Marc-André—on 13 January 2010. His second child, a daughter Lola was born in April 2012. His wife is the daughter of Marc-André Sebaoun and Isabelle Maruani (née Darty). Maruani is heiress to a major consumer electronics company, the Darty group. He has denied reports that he intends to convert from Catholicism to Judaism, Sebaoun's religion. In 2009, the cartoonist Siné came under sharp criticism and was sacked from Charlie Hebdo after accusing Jean Sarkozy of converting out of ambition, as well as being sued by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA).

In 2007, Le Canard enchaîné, an investigative weekly newspaper, reported that French police had gone to extraordinary lengths to try to find his scooter when it was stolen, including taking DNA samples from his helmet. The scooter was recovered in 10 days.

Jean Nicolas Brice Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ saʁ.kɔ.zi] ; Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy János; born 1 September 1986) is the son of the former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. Jean is a regional councillor in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and registered as a first-year law student at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 2007. He is a backroom activist for his father's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a center-right party.

Sarkozy was born in September 1986 to Nicolas Sarkozy and his first wife Marie-Dominique Culioli. He has an older brother, Pierre (born 1985), a younger half-brother named Louis (born 1997) from his father's second marriage to Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz as well as a younger half-sister named Giulia (born 2011) from his father's third marriage to Carla Bruni.