About a week before Russia’s invasion, Dasha Zhukova partied with Karlie Kloss for New York Fashion Week. She now faces scrutiny over the $96 million in New York property transferred to her b…
for a story it published about oligarchs’ real estate holdings in Manhattan and the Upper East Side property Abramovich transferred to her. The holdings consist of a set of historic townhouses that Abramovich had begun combining into a single mega-mansion that was once derided as “a whole new level of egregious consumption.”
Zhukova, who shares two children with Abramovich, told the New York Post and other outlets that the transfer was part of their divorce settlement. She also condemned the “brutal and horrific invasion,” telling the New York Post: “As someone born in Russia, I unequivocally condemn these acts of war, and I stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people as well as with the millions of Russians who feel the same way.
Such statements from Zhukova and her museum may not alleviate concerns that she, like other relatives of Russia’s oligarchs, have enjoyed lavish lifestyles made possible by Putin’s associates, who used their connections to him to “pillage the Russian state” and enrich themselves and their families, asThe Post said Zhukova declined to comment on whether or not she agrees that family members of sanctioned oligarchs should also “be deprived of illicit wealth and its accouterments — property,...
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 27: Anna Wintour and Dasha Zhukova attend the party for Dasha Zhukova’ cover for Wall Street Journal on January 27, 2015 in Paris, France.
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