11 September 2016 Karlie is at the US Open with sketchy wealthy and elite people:
The Who’s Who of Who’s That
Dasha Zhukova
In her own words:
“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,” she said through the spokesman, repeating the same statement she made to The Post at the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. But while Zhukova, 40, has been emphatic in her condemnation of Russian aggression, she has remained silent about her ex-husband
and the father of two of her three children, billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Known for:
In happier times, Zhukova and Abramovich were the powerhouse “It” couple of the contemporary art world
in Moscow.
Assets:
- Abramovich, who is worth more than $13 billion.
- They opened their museum in a converted Soviet garage in Moscow in 2008. The museum eventually
- moved locations to the city’s Gorky Park, where Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas converted Vremena Goda, a Soviet-era restaurant, into a sleek, 5,400-square-foot exhibition space featuring an auditorium, classrooms, offices and a cafe, completed in 2015.
- Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed a collection of 367
- works valued at $963m. The couple acquired what experts believe is “one of the most significant private collections of modern art ever assembled, a trove of more than 300 pieces whose worth was estimated by the oligarch’s own assessors at almost $1bn.”
- An investigation by The Guardian newspaper has revealed that the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed a collection of 367 works valued at $963m, featuring artists such as Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, René Magritte, Paula Rego and Lucian Freud.
- Russian modernists such as Natalia Goncharova and Véra Rockline are also represented in the collection along with Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and David Hockney. Mondrian, Magritte and Freud are among the masterpieces acquired by the sanctioned Russian billionaire, according to a report by The Guardian.
- In 2008, The Art Newspaper revealed that Abramovich was the buyer of Bacon’s Triptych, 1976, which sold at Sotheby’s New York on 14 May that year for $86.3m as well as Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), auctioned at Christie’s the previous evening for $33.6m. Both works made auction history: the Bacon set the highest auction price ever for a post-war work of art, while Freud became the most expensive living artist, snatching the title from Jeff Koons.
- Zhukova and Abramovich, owner of Britain’s Chelsea Football Club.
- In June 2011 and parked their 377-foot yacht, Luna. Luna has a covered swimming pool, a communications tower and a crew of 40.
- Abramovich and Zhukova became so close to Gagosian that they bought property across the street from his East 75th Street mansion when they moved to New York, according to public records.
- Abramovich owns a sprawling mansion overlooking Gouverneur Beach and docked his $700 million yacht, Eclipse, at the harbor.
- According to Forbes, Abramovich owns stakes in the Russian steel giant Evraz and nickel producer Norilsk Nickel and is worth $9bn.
- Zhukova founded Garage Magazine, a glossy fashion and art journal, which she sold to Vice Media in 2016.
- Zhukova is also the founder of Ray, a real estate development company that is developing a 222-unit residential building and performance space for the National Black Theatre in Harlem.
- Shortly after their divorce, Abramovich transferred $92.3 million in New York real estate, including three Upper East Side landmarked townhouses that are being joined into a mega-mansion, to Zhukova in September 2018, according to public records.
- But although Zhukova and Abramovich separated their assets, the avid collectors are still partners in the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, which they founded in Moscow in 2008.
- Abramovich is listed along with Zhukova as one of the museum’s three trustees on the Garage’s website under the heading “Governance.”
- Zhukova and Niarchos have a couple’s combined net worth estimated at more than $200 million, and the Niarchos family’s holdings topped $12 billion after the death of his grandfather in 1996, according to reports.
Rub Elbows with:
Dasha’s mother was offered a teaching position at UCLA and enrolled her daughter in Pacific Hills, a small
private school in West Hollywood whose alumni include the actor Jason Bateman and Monica Lewinsky. During her
college years, she lived in one of her father’s luxurious apartments and dated Marat Safin, a Russian tennis player.
In 2005, Dasha met Roman Abramovich at a dinner in Moscow. The duo were also known for throwing fashionable
parties in London, New York and St. Barth’s, the Caribbean island. They threw a yacht party for artists Gillian
Wearing, Sarah Morris and Tom Sachs. Zhukova’s critical eye was partly nurtured by Upper East Side art dealer
Larry Gagosian, “who became a mentor.”. After her divorce from Abramovich, Zhukova married Greek shipping
heir Stavros Niarchos in a celebrity-packed 2020 wedding in St. Moritz. Guests included Britain’s Princess Beatrice, CBS
News anchor Gayle King and art dealer Vito Schnabel, among others. Their epic New Year’s Eve parties on the
French island were multimillion-dollar affairs, featuring performances by Prince and the Black Eyed Peas, among
others. Guests included Kanye West, Orlando Bloom, Demi Moore and Beyoncé. Zhukova herself counts Oprah
Winfrey, model Karlie Kloss and Gwyneth Paltrow among her close friends.
Troubles/(Alleged) Crimes:
- Abramovich largely made his fortune after buying an oil company from the Russian government in an allegedly rigged auction in 1995, according to a recent BBC investigation. Abramovich paid $250 million for Sibneft before selling it back to the Russian government for $13 billion in 2005, the broadcaster noted.
- Abramovich the Russian oligarch, and confidant to Russian President Putin was sanctioned by the European Union and the UK earlier this month.
- Around 2014, the collection of 367 works valued at $963m, was stored in a warehouse in south London, though its whereabouts today are unknown.
- The details of Abramovich’s art collection came to light thanks to the Oligarch Files, a leak from the Cyprus-based offshore financial services provider MeritServus, analysed in collaboration with the OCCRP (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) and other international media partners.
- The Guardian says that files, which run until March 2022, show that a company called Seline-Invest, originally incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and redomiciled in 2017 to Jersey, owned the works.
- It acquired them in 2017 and 2018 from the Harmony Trust, of which Abramovich was the sole beneficiary, via a series of 11 transactions.
- Seline-Invest was in turn controlled by a Cyprus-based trust, the Ermis Trust Settlement, initially set up in 2010 for the sole benefit of Abramovich.
- In February last year, via a “deed of amendment”, Zhukova became “irrevocably entitled to 51%” of the trust’s distributions, the documents state.
- In March last year Abramovich was put under sanctions by the UK government and the European Union.
- The collection is not subject to an asset freezing order, but the sanctions on Abramovich meant a loan agreement with the Ermis Trust, linked to works by Lucian Freud, could not go ahead with the National Gallery in London last year for the show Lucian Freud: New Perspectives.
Ameliorations:
- Abramovich’s lawyers denied that there was any criminality involved.
- They separated in 2016, the spokesman said.
- Their divorce was finalized in 2019.
- “All assets which were transferred are in accordance with the judgment of divorce,” the spokesman said. “Since then Dasha has moved on with her life and is happily remarried.”
- The notice shutting down the Garage until the end of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is presumably made on their behalf, and reads in part, “We cannot support the illusion of normality when such events are taking place.”
- The US has held off with its own sanctions, reportedly at the urging of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who told President Biden in a recent telephone call that Abramovich, 55, could be useful as a go-between to help negotiate a peace deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
- Abramovich’s lawyer told a court earlier this year that he has no links to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
- Crucially The Guardian states: “There is no suggestion that Zhukova has ever taken any steps designed to undermine sanctions, including in connection with the collection. The art was owned by the trust, rather than by her, and she could not make decisions on its behalf.”
- The Guardian reports that it understands that no pieces from the collection have been sold or disposed of since the change of beneficial interest last year.
- Dasha, who regularly posts on social media, stopped uploading glamorous photos of herself even before the beginning of the war — perhaps anticipating the backlash of comments, such as the ones that now appear under an Instagram picture of her wearing a fur coat in San Moritz. Wrote one social media user: “Tell Roman to stop Putin.”
Sources:
https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/how-dasha-zhukova-lived-large-off-oligarch-roman-abramovich/
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