Roman Abramovich's ex-wife went into religion after her divorce from the oligarch
Roman Abramovich // Photo: Getty Images
51-year-old Irina Abramovich lived with the Russian billionaire for 16 years; the couple broke up in 2007. After divorcing her husband, according to some, Abramovich’s ex-wife leads a reclusive life: the woman does not go to social events and almost does not communicate with journalists.
She recently made an exception and told how her life had changed after a high-profile divorce from a billionaire. According to the oligarch’s ex-wife, she doesn’t close herself off from anyone, her interests have simply changed, and instead of parties she now goes to church.
“You may not often see me at social events, but we can often see each other in a temple, at an exhibition, in a museum, in a theater. My home is always open to friends, I prefer home gatherings to feasts in a restaurant,” said Irina Abramovich.
Irina does not hide the fact that her lifestyle is no longer secular, however, according to her, life has changed for the better - she has realized true values. “Communication with God, children, close friends. I am invariably interested in everything that happens in the world of culture. I also collect Byzantine and Russian icons,” says Irina.
Irina Abramovich stopped attending social events // Photo: Social networks
According to Irina, faith helps in overcoming any difficulties and makes life bright and full of meaning. The children of Irina and Roman Abramovich study in prestigious educational institutions, and without exception, they all grow up to be intelligent and decent people. “I always say about my children: “This is my joy!” The eldest, Anna, is graduating from Columbia University with a degree in philosophy. Arkady works, he has a successful business,” Abramovich’s ex-wife shared.
Recently, Irina Abramovich's former assistant accused her of fraud. She went to the London court and claimed that after the divorce, her ex-boss purchased a villa in Saint-Tropez with the funds of her ex-husband, but allegedly collaborated with offshore companies and took from the oligarch much more than the cost of the house. According to Elarem Hoffmann, she was fired because she refused to participate in this fraud, and she decided to talk about it in order to achieve justice.
Irina and Roman Abramovich have been married for 16 years // Photo: Program frame
Irina Abramovich did not comment on this story. According to the oligarch’s ex-wife, now she tries to communicate only with sincere and bright people. “There is a little social glitter in my life, but there is a lot of light in it. And this light is born from communication in the family, meetings with friends, frequent trips around the world, meeting people of different cultures and worldviews,” said Irina Abramovich in an interview with Tatler magazine.
What claims did Elarem Hoffmann make?
The ex-wife of Roman Abramovich was accused of fraud in the purchase of a villa in Saint-Tropez. Irina Abramovich's former assistant filed a corresponding complaint with the High Court of London. Elarem Hoffmann stated that she was illegally fired due to her refusal to participate in “gray” financial schemes. According to the woman, in this way Abramovich’s ex-wife tried to minimize taxes and even deceive her ex-husband. She allegedly came up with a scheme to force a billionaire to pay more for a villa in Saint-Tropez than it was actually worth.
In documents submitted to the High Court in London, Hoffmann claims that the agreement that Roman Abramovich entered into when divorcing his second wife allowed Irina to spend up to €50 million on property on the Cote d'Azur. But only if the billionaire receives proof of these expenses. Hoffmann states that Irina asked her to look at dozens of objects. She eventually settled in a mansion known as Sofia's Choice. According to Hoffmann, the villa cost approximately €38 million, while Irina Abramovich, together with a lawyer from Switzerland, developed a plan to get the “remainder” from her ex-husband. The scheme used two offshore shell companies, with the help of which it was possible to register fictitious expenses for €9 million. According to Hoffmann, Roman Abramovich eventually gave Irina cash for this amount.
Irina Abramovich has already filed a counterclaim against her former assistant. The billionaire's ex-wife claims that Hoffmann herself made mistakes when working with finances. They cost Irina Abramovich approximately €20 million. Managing partner of the Starinsky, Korchago and Partners bar association, Vladimir Starinsky, believes that this proceeding raises questions for both sides of the conflict:
“On the part of former employee Irina Abramovich, the position of vulnerability is that her future career will not be very well affected by the very fact of filing such a claim. No one wants to deal with a person who could potentially expose to everyone the details of transactions, paying taxes and internal operations, managing quite expensive property. Irina Abramovich provided information that the assistant did not have sufficient competence. Probably, if a person is entrusted with the management of property for large sums, then he is selected taking into account his education and certain organizational skills.
If this person did not initially meet the requirements, then the question is: why hire such a person?”
The media estimated Roman Abramovich's compensation for his divorce from his second wife at $300 million. The new case reveals new details of their agreement, noted the head of the law firm, Alexander Treshchev. According to him, this dispute could have negative consequences for the Russian businessman himself:
What are the reasons for the court's claims in France against Roman Abramovich?
“As always, the aides know much more inside information than the media. We need to see if Abramovich’s wife had an agreement with this assistant, whether she can disclose information that became known to her through work, and for how long. This story is interesting because, having failed to find some kind of compromise in the negotiation process, the parties begin to leak compromising information.
All this, of course, harms Abramovich in conditions where he is not very well accepted by the English side.
He had problems with a visa, he had to obtain Israeli citizenship, and in the context of sanctions, this assistant probably enlisted the support of some influential people whose actions were directed against Abramovich. This can lead to serious consequences."
London's High Court will begin hearing the dispute between Irina Abramovich and her former assistant next year.
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Previously, Irina worked as a flight attendant. Now he leads a non-public lifestyle, often attends exhibitions, and is interested in culture, books, and travel.
For a long time after the divorce, Irina avoided communicating with the press. From her ex-husband she received not only a huge amount of alimony, but also real estate in England and France, the opportunity to dispose of an airplane and a yacht.
Roman pays for his children’s education and entertainment himself. Billionaire woman Irina Abramovich prefers to spend maximum time in Hampshire, taking care of pets, creating a cozy, warm environment.
Trips
Former flight attendant Irina Vyacheslavovna Malandina has not lost her passion for traveling, but now they have added more comfort. Irina gravitates towards exotic countries, probably because she has already visited traditional sights in Roman’s company and over the years of working as a flight attendant.
Her last trip was to Peru.
Irina AbramovichGrigory Sysoev/RIA Novosti
“An unimaginable layering of civilizations, most of which left behind only mysterious and silent monuments. More questions than answers,” she told Tatler magazine.
However, the luxury of observing the life of Irina Abramovich is available only to her Instagram subscribers, of whom she has few - only 488 people. Abramovich’s ex-wife closed her account so that no one would be interested in “private details”: who she is friends with, what she is wearing. Irina does not need PR; for her, Instagram is just a platform for communicating with friends.
Golden kindergarten. 5 “socialites” with many children
If a woman looks good and often appears in gossip columns, this does not mean that she completely lacks maternal instinct. AiF.ru talks about mothers, looking at whom, it’s hard to believe that not one or two children are waiting for them at home, but a whole “curling team”, or even two.
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Who: Stella Aminova, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Husband: businessman Vadim Aminov, in 2014 Forbes gave him 144th place in the ranking of “200 richest businessmen in Russia.”
Children : The Aminov couple have been together for 16 years, and during this time their family has tripled in size. Stella and Vadim have 6 children growing up - four sons and two daughters - twins Mariam and Rachel . It’s not for nothing that the businesswoman’s own clothing line bears the self-explanatory name Mumofsix. The most interesting thing is that Stella did not plan to become a mother of many children; she was actively building a career: first she managed a jewelry business, then she held the position of director of the Jewish Museum. But as a result, I realized that I wanted to develop in a completely different direction, and opened a children's store. Having six children, this is a very forward-thinking move on her part.
The youngest member of this family, Aron , is three years old. Spouses often go on vacation and always take their children with them; romantic trips for just two people in this union are extremely rare. The Aminovs also pay quite a lot of attention to religious education - all children know what Shabbat and Torah are. December 31 is, of course, celebrated, but Rosh Hashanah, which comes in September, is celebrated with much greater enthusiasm. Stella often talks about her “everyday life with many children” in the columns of Tatler magazine. The topics are varied: how to keep children's rooms in order, traveling with a large family or having pets. By the way, the Aminovs, despite their own “mini-kindergarten,” also have a Yorkshire dog named Benya, a Labrador named Manny, a guinea pig, and that’s not counting a parrot and two turtles!
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Who: Irina Abramovich
Ex-husband: businessman Roman Abramovich , according to Forbes, ranks 11th in the ranking of “200 richest businessmen in Russia 2018”
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Children : Today Irina is far from social gatherings and leads a rather private lifestyle without spectacular appearances on the red carpet and numerous interviews, although journalists still crave communication with the ex-wife of Roman Arkadyevich. The Abramovichs separated in 2007, after 16 years of marriage. In this once happy union, 5 children were born. The eldest, Anna , now 26 years old, is graduating from Columbia University with a degree in philosophy. Arkady , unlike his sister, followed in his father’s footsteps and is engaged in business; in September he celebrated a small anniversary - his 25th anniversary. Sofia graduated from Royal Holloway University in London, the girl is involved in sports and continues to participate in show jumping competitions. Arina is graduating from college and is just planning to enter a university, and the youngest Ilya is studying at one of the schools in the British capital.
Irina Abramovich during the ceremony of transferring particles of the relics of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova to the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. 2009 Photo: RIA Novosti/Grigory Sysoev
Who: Anastasia Ryabtsova, photographer
Husband: Sergey Ryabtsov, co-founder of the Sputnik investment group
Children : You can see Anastasia’s large family, consisting of her husband Sergei and four daughters: Vasilisa, Vera, Ekaterina and Nika , on her Instagram. All Ryabtsovs, without exception, love sports and engage in a wide variety of sports: jogging, skiing, cycling, tennis and even football. Recently, 9-year-old Katya conquered triathlon, which her mother immediately told subscribers about: “I am the proudest mother! At the age of nine, Katya did her first triathlon! Hooray!". The large family also loves to travel; this year they all went to Antarctica together, although, according to Anastasia herself, the trip did not cause much delight.
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Who: Olga Thompson, fabric designer
Husband: photographer Charles Thompson
Children : Olga was born in Moscow, but at the age of 14 she moved to the USA, where she graduated from high school and entered Stanford University. In 2002, the girl married photographer Charles Thompson. It is noteworthy that they celebrated the wedding not just anywhere, but in Yasnaya Polyana - apparently, Olga’s passion for the work of Leo Tolstoy . In May 2020, a sixth child was born in the family - the fifth daughter. how Charles copes with an impressive female team consisting of Olga herself, as well as daughters Natalya, Anastasia, Maria, Anna and Tatyana . Apparently, son Alexander is helping his dad in this difficult matter. By the way, the girls, like their mother once, also do ballet. It is also customary in this family to monitor their diet and cook delicious food; even its smallest inhabitants are involved in this process. An important rule that all Thompsons are taught to follow is “no eating while running.” Dinners together are sacred to them.
Surprisingly, the maternity leave, which for obvious reasons dragged on for Olga, helped her find herself in a new environment. When she was staying at home with her children, she realized an old dream - she took up interior design. However, not finding the necessary fabrics, she decided to create them herself, becoming a designer and co-founder of the Tissus Tartares brand.
Charles and Olga Thompson with their children. Photo: RIA Novosti/Ekaterina Chesnokova
Who: Elizaveta Molchanova
Husband: head of LSR Group Andrey Molchanov
Children : For Andrei Molchanov, marriage to his wife Lisa is the second in a row. Despite the fact that they were both from St. Petersburg and lived almost in neighboring houses, the couple met in Moscow, when Molchanov was invited to a wedding. Somehow, imperceptibly, someone else’s wedding ended for him with a long-term union with the St. Petersburg woman Liza. The Molchanovs are raising six children. The elder Egor first received his education in Switzerland and then in New York. Daughter Susanna studies in the fourth grade at Moscow School of Economics and dreams of becoming a journalist. Serafima is a graduate of the Evgeni Plushenko Figure Skating Academy and has already taken part in the figure skater’s show “Nutcracker 2”. By the way, Seraphima and Susanna are not the only rare names in this family; the Molchanovs also have sons Nikon, Luka and Foma growing up.
Andrey Molchanov with his wife Elizaveta. Photo: RIA Novosti/Valery Levitin
Abramovich and Zhukova: did they scam everyone?
Abramovich and Zhukova: did they scam everyone?
The story of the high-profile divorce of Roman Abramovich and Daria Zhukova may turn out to be completely different from what it is presented to the gullible public...
Abramovich and Zhukova officially confirmed their separation after 10 years of marriage. This is despite the fact that the couple is raising a son, Aaron, and a daughter, Leah, who is only four years old.
However, the father promises them full financial support. They definitely won't need it. Just as Abramovich’s five children from a previous marriage are not in need, everything is in perfect order.
Roman Arkadyevich also stated that he would share the property with his now almost ex-wife. As you know, he is not a greedy man. By the way, this quality is very rare for an oligarch. Much more often, during a divorce, the rich of this world leave their ex-spouses with literally nothing. And it doesn’t matter whether the wife came “to get something ready” (that is, the husband already had a successful business) or whether they earned money and raised money together and the wife helped in every possible way.
— Many of the girls I know from “high society” have carbon-copy stories. While a rich husband loves, the whole world is at her feet: cars, diamonds. I’m tired of it, they throw me out of the house, taking everything away,” says Alena Kravets , actress, singer, and part-time ex-wife of the Rublev billionaire. — From one of my friends, her husband took away not only all her property, but also her children. For another, he had several mistresses in parallel, each with children. When his wife found out and was indignant, she heard from him: “I will live as I want. If you don’t like it, leave, but you will leave without everything, naked and barefoot.” This philosophy is a complete lack of conscience and morality.
“Russian legislation, unfortunately, does not protect the rights of wives,” says the ex-wife of another oligarch, Ksenia Merts. “Even if they acquired property together while doing business, a woman still has little right to anything.” As, for example, in my case: my husband cunningly transferred everything movable and immovable to third parties, and after the divorce I had to not even leave, but run away to my parents’ apartment.
Now I think: I should have saved for a rainy day - put the money in a jar and bury it in the garden. I'm serious. Because I can say from my own experience: a male oligarch during a divorce sets himself the goal of letting his ex go around the world. For what? You loved him, you gave birth to children, but at one point you became undesirable, and the reasons for this were very different: you got old, you got tired...
But Daria Zhukova and Roman Abramovich are, of course, a different story.
“Even before meeting Abramovich, Daria was a wealthy girl - she has a very wealthy father,” continues Alena Kravets. “She’ll be fine, don’t worry about her.” And Roman parted with all his wives with dignity (Zhukova is already the third wife of the oligarch - Ed .), fully provided for them and their children.
“I can tell you that Roman Abramovich has instructed me to find him a new bride,” the famous secular pimp Pyotr Listerman, who supplies oligarchs with lifelong girlfriends, stunned us with the news. — He wants an actress who looks like a young Milla Jovovich. And now I’m knocked off my feet, looking for one in all the acting agencies in the world. I can also report that Luc Besson and Abramovich are planning to soon make a joint science fiction film about Russia.
What can I say: Peter Listerman knows how to shock, but sometimes he gives out wishful thinking. Our other source, a woman from the Rublyov crowd, is much more credible. According to her information, the divorce between Abramovich and Zhukova is essentially fictitious.
She also calls the rumors about the businessman’s new hobby unreliable - after all, they say that Abramovich is leaving the family because of the ballet star Diana Vishneva. All this, according to our interlocutor, is a fiction, a distraction.
“On Rublyovka they are sure that both the divorce and the loud official statement on this matter are a special move to divide the assets,” says our expert. — This technique is often used by businessmen: a fictitious divorce for the sake of certain financial manipulations. Which ones exactly - I don’t know, you need to ask either Abramovich himself, or his father-in-law - Dasha Zhukova’s father, or herself. Although of course they won't tell you anything. Business is a delicate matter.
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Children and church
Irina has five children, and everyone clearly knows what they want from life. The eldest daughter Anna graduates from Columbia University and is a certified philosopher. 25-year-old Arkady successfully runs his own business. Sofia graduated from Royal Holloway University at the age of 21 and is a professional athlete. 16-year-old Arina is also graduating from college and will study to become a zoologist in Australia. Her peer Ilya is studying at one of the London schools, and is now taking GCSE exams.
“We try to instill in children kindness, compassion, and hard work,” said Irina.
Abramovich's ex-wife draws strength from the Orthodox faith and supports the Church of the Holy Martyr Antipas in Kolymazhny Yard. In the church she met many interesting people of different professions and views on life and learned that a church can become a real home. And the house is a church. Irina has a collection of icons: Russian and Byzantine, and the collection is periodically replenished.
Roman Abramovich's girlfriend attended Marina Abramovich's party
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Among others, Dasha Zhukova, a friend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, appeared at the party Reuters
On the evening of Thursday, December 1, a party was held at the Ocho bar in Miami Beach with the screening of the film “Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present” (Nowness), which was attended by many celebrities.
Among others, Dasha Zhukova, a friend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, appeared at the party. The businessman himself was not at the event, NEWSru Israel reports.
Let us recall that over the past month, Roman Abramovich has had to pay considerable attention to the trial that the disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky is waging against him.
— Marina Abramovic never met Roman Abramovich, but she once used his name
On November 30, Marina Abramovich turned 65 years old. Since the early 70s, she has been tirelessly experimenting with her own body and the psyche of viewers who came to look at her installations. In her youth, having experienced double pressure - a puritanical upbringing and the dictatorship of the Tito regime, Marina Abramovich has been fighting all her life against any restriction on the internal, and external too, of human freedom. And quite successfully. In 1974, with a live python wrapped around her head, Marina lay down in the center of a burning five-pointed star at one of her first exhibitions.
And just two years later she shocked the public by presenting two completely naked people, a man and a woman, whose bodies touched each other for an hour, rubbed against each other, tormented each other in a frantic rhythm and, in the end, “broke” causing each other serious pain. Abramovich’s living “painting” was called “Relationships in Space,” one of the naked bodies belonged to herself, and the second to the German artist Ulay, who was Marina’s collaborator and lover for 12 years. In 1977, the artists remained tied together by their hair for 17 hours, which Abramović intended to symbolize “Relationships in Time.” After this performance, critic Catherine Grenier called Abramovich and Ulay “a man with two heads,” and some time later Marina admitted that the ideal creature for her is a “hermaphrodite,” a man and a woman merged in a single body.
Together with Ulay, Abramovich held several other impressive artistic events: one of them was an evening for 11 friends called “Communist Body, Capitalist Body.” At 23:45, friends of the artists were invited to their apartment in Amsterdam, where they found Marina and Ulay sleeping on separate mattresses, and two serving tables, on one of which there were food and drinks produced in the “socialist camp”, and on the other - in capitalist. Guests were invited to feast in the silent presence of their sleeping hosts. After traveling along the Great Wall of China towards each other in 1988, Marina and Ulay separated.
Abramović's installations that followed the breakup focused on the body as an object of passion and violence: a star carved on a woman's stomach, a "container," according to Abramović, of "legends and victims"; a woman's face covered with glass filings; woman in the jungle, armed with a huge knife. The artist claims that it is important for her to pull the viewer’s nerves, to see his fear, horror or disgust, to make him an accomplice in the performance. One of these “accomplices” collapsed near Abramović’s installation right in the Parisian gallery.
In 1997, for the performance “Balkan Baroque”, presented at the Venice Biennale, Marina Abramović received the prestigious Golden Lion award. This award was preceded by many hours of sitting in a white dress among bloody bones, which the artist kept cleaning and cleaning in front of shocked spectators.
Abramovich's girlfriend's chair accused of 'incredible racism'
The common-law wife of billionaire Roman Abramovich, Dasha Zhukova, was accused of racism. The culprit is her photo, which appeared in one of the Russian fashion blogs. The photo shows Zhukova sitting on a chair made in the form of a tied up black woman. It is noteworthy that the photo was published on January 20, the day of remembrance of the famous fighter for the rights of African Americans, Martin Luther King.
In the photo, a 32-year-old Muscovite, dressed in a snow-white button-up shirt and blue jeans, sits on a chair, the base of which is a mannequin. A rather believable figure of a half-naked black woman is dressed in a costume reminiscent of BDSM paraphernalia. “The mannequin lies on its back, with its knees pressed to its chest and its legs raised, and the pillow on which Zhukova is sitting is on top. The mannequin’s neck is raised, as if the doll, in a rather awkward position, wants to look at its “owner,” as the British edition of the Daily Mail describes the chair.
The scandalous photo was used in a blog to illustrate an interview with a former model, who today publishes her own fashion magazine and actively invests in art objects. The blog's publisher, Miroslava Duma, also posted this photo on her Instagram. The photo immediately attracted the attention of the Internet public and caused a flurry of comments full of disgust. The Duma immediately removed this image from Instagram, and the photo that illustrated the interview was cropped so that the chair was not visible.
“This is simply incredible racism,” this is how the women's movement Organizing for Women's Liberation commented on the scandalous photo. Publisher of the FashionBombDaily.com blog Claire Sulmers was the first to notice the racist message in Zhukova’s photo. In her opinion, the meaning of the photo is completely clear: “Dominance and white supremacy, expressed in a derogatory way, although seemingly harmless.” According to Sulmers, racism is rampant in the worlds of fashion and art, and this urgently needs to stop. “The arts and fashion industry are bastions of our society where blatant racism and ignorance have been given the green light in favor of ‘creativity,’” Sulmers said.
American Internet users immediately responded. “I think Martin Luther King is turning over in his grave. I curse human stupidity with all my heart! This is a huge failure! " – wrote one of the bloggers on Twitter. Another user o. Another blogger added: "Even for the sinister world of fashion photography, where there is no sense of taste, this is too much."
British journalists who tried to call Buro 24/7 and Zhukova received no answer. However, Miroslava Duma’s comment on this matter was aired on Rossiya 24. “Of course, such a reaction could not even have been foreseen by us. We are now going to write comments and formal apologies because no one intended to hurt anyone’s feelings.”
According to her, the scandalous chair is the work of the famous artist Allen Jones, one of the cult representatives of pop art. “This is one of his most famous works - furniture in the form of female figures. There are white women and black women. To be honest, we are a little shocked, it’s strange to us. But we, of course, apologize to all the people whose feelings we hurt,” Duma said.
Dasha Zhukova, the daughter of an oil tycoon, was born in Moscow. When she was three years old, her parents divorced. At the age of 10, she moved to the United States with her mother. Zhukova studied at an elite school in California, then entered the University of California. After that, she returned to Moscow and then moved to London. There Zhukova met Abramovich, whose fortune is estimated at $14 billion. They had children in 2009 and 2013.
Information about children
Anna
Born in 1992. She graduated from the elite school Godolphin & Latymer School. She also has a degree from the University of Westminster. She was engaged to lawyer Nikolai Lazarev. However, their wedding never took place. Anya currently lives in London. She has a spacious apartment in one of the central areas of the city, as well as an expensive car.
Arkady
He was born on September 4, 1993. In many print media, Arkady is called his father's favorite. One thing can be said: the guy has a kind heart, strong-willed character and business acumen. He did not take offense at his father because he left for another woman.
Arkady has his own company, named after his initials (ARA Capital Limited). The young man, without the help of his father, was able to earn more than $13.4 billion. His company is known to invest in natural resources.
Sophia
The girl (b. 1995) lives in London. She received an excellent education at one of the English universities. Sofia is a regular at fashionable get-togethers and parties. The daughter of billionaire Abramovich does not deny herself anything. Sophia buys only designer clothes and orders gourmet meals in restaurants.
The youngest children of Irina and Roman (15-year-old Arina and 13-year-old Ilya) are not yet adults. The mother is responsible for them.
