Alcohol tycoon Yuri Shefler, ranked 58th on the Forbes list with a net worth of $2.6 billion, has become a father for the sixth time. His son Artem was born to him by a Russian beauty from Nizhnevartovsk, Ksenia Sukhinova.
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The future billionaire made his first money in the early 1990s trading vouchers. Unlike the deceived compatriots to whom Anatoly Chubais promised the Volga, Yuri Shefler, following the results of privatization, became a shareholder of Vnukovo Airlines, Nafta-Moscow, GUM and TSUM.
While the fools were building democracy, the clever businessman, along with the rest of the jackals, tore the flesh of the lifeless Soviet economy. His company registered in the Netherlands received the rights to the Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya trademarks. When the Russian state came to its senses, Shefler managed to become a billionaire and obtain British citizenship. Now he is actively working in Latvia, where he owns the company Latvijas balzams.
Serious danger threatened his business only once, and then from an unexpected side. After the adoption in Russia of a law banning propaganda of homosexuality among minors, the international gay lobby announced a boycott of Russian vodka in the United States and European countries. Shefler was forced to become the biggest patron of the LGBT movement. Vodka producer Stolichnaya has donated $300,000 to an international program to educate gay leaders. Moreover, his company SPI Group issued a statement of full support for the advocates of sexual minorities and painted its website in rainbow colors.
At the same time, Shefler himself is not at all gay, but quite the opposite. Before meeting Miss Russia 2007 and Miss World 2008 Ksenia Sukhinova, he had three official marriages, after which five children remained.
The first wife of the rich man was Elena Litueva, however, then he was not even a ruble millionaire. As they say, he grew up before her eyes and, as often happens, outgrew the second half.
Lena married an unremarkable post-Soviet man, and then it turned out that he was a big fan of escorts. Family scandals ended with Litueva ending up in a pre-trial detention center in a drug trafficking case. The matter, however, was quickly hushed up. Immediately after the court deprived her of her maternal rights, Yuri Sergeevich was given custody of their son Alyosha and was allowed to take him to the UK.
As for the second wife, the honorary replacement of Ms. Lituyeva, her fate is described with such phrases as “violent death” and “missing.” In general, a mystery that only a kamikaze can delve into.
But about the third wife of a billionaire, everything is known in detail. A native of Kazan, model Tatyana Kovylina belongs to the army of long-legged hangers and became famous for her striking appearances at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in the bearded years of 2005 and 2010.
According to rumors, Shefler refused to marry Kovylina for a long time: she had to give birth to him as many as three backbiters before he bothered to ring.
The fourth baby was born after the divorce. In an attempt to get an additional bonus from her already ex-husband, Tatyana did not come up with anything better than naming her youngest offspring Yura, in honor of her father.
To somehow unwind, Kovylina decided to make room in the dressing room and get rid of the gifts of the former. She sells designer clothes on a luxury thrift site. She has already traded for a good $ 30 thousand. Along the way, the lady shocks the British with frank interviews. For example, she says that she only eats the meat of animals that have grown up on her personal farm.
Beef was not greedy
So for whom did Yuri Shefler leave four children?
In addition to the crowns, Ksenia Sukhinova has only one skeleton hanging in her closet, but what a skeleton! Rumor has it that the honorary title of “Miss World” was not obtained in a completely honest way, namely with the direct financial participation of the canning king Sergei Govyadin. His enterprise “Glavprodukt” fulfills the state order – it supplies canned meat and other “delicacies” for the Ministry of Defense and the State Reserve.
– The fact that Ksenia Sukhinova is by no means squeamish has long been rumored in secular parties. She absolutely does not care the age and appearance of the chosen one. The main thing that interests the long-legged beauty is money and generosity, assures secular chronicler Lena Miro. – Businessman Sergey Govyadin, according to rumors, is very generous and, despite his frightening brutality, a very gallant gentleman – these are exactly the kind of people Ksenia loves.
By the way, before Sukhinova, this gentleman spudded Victoria Bonya. But the romance was short-lived. The crack between the lovers lay when Vika’s phone was hacked and her intimate photos were posted on the Web. The beef really didn’t like that Bonya was having oral sex with another. It’s like he’s not feeding her well.
And so Xenia appeared, who promised not to take someone else’s mouth and firmly kept her word. Therefore, Sukhinova celebrated her 25th birthday in a villa in Antibes. The celebration was led by Ivan Urgant, Alena Apina, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Seal performed before the guests. There, Govyadin convinced Valentin Yudashkin to make Sukhinova the face of his model house.
They say that things were going to the wedding, but Ksyusha understood that sooner or later the boyfriend would find fresher meat and he would have to give up his place on the plate. The stigma of “a single mother on the content” categorically did not suit her. But in fairness, the businessman still did not leave her in poverty. Govyadin gave his former mistress a luxurious apartment in Moscow and from time to time landed at this alternate airfield to rest after training.
The moneybag loves to chase the ball with the powers that be, because it brings them together. On the field with him you can see the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin, the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov and other necessary people.
Meanwhile, Sukhinova believed in her fate and did not despair. And in the summer of 2021, luck happened: a dollar billionaire, albeit one with many children, wandered into her paradise. Their joint appearance at the celebration of the birthday of Igor Krutoy in Turkey made a lot of noise. Everyone knew that Shefler was still married to Kovylina, and here, as secular observers put it, such a fart monocle is Miss World 2008 in person.
This time, Ksyusha, realizing that there was no time – the clock was ticking, decided to press the man with her belly, to be sure. However, the victory cannot be called complete. It’s not about the wedding. Yuri Shefler is still considering all the pros and cons of a new marriage. Nothing personal, just business first. Well, girls – then.
By the way
- In January 2020, the Dutch Supreme Court ordered Yuri Shefler to pay Russia all the profits he has received since 1999 from the sale of vodka. This decision was the result of the fact that the litigation for the Stolichnaya brand, which had dragged on for about 20 years, ended in favor of our country. The legal fees alone took £145,000 out of Shefler’s pocket. Art.
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