This year, 7-year-old Artem Kovalenko went to school for the first time, however, only his mother was present at the meeting – there is a dash in the father column in the child’s personal file. The epic with determining the paternity of the son of the first vice-miss of the international competition “MISS EURASIA-2020” has been going on for many years. During this time, regional courts refused to force the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, to do DNA tests, which would finally make it possible to understand and put an end to the question “whose son is model Kovalenko?” In turn, the Supreme Court determined that little Artem may not use the patronymic “Vasilievich”, which the oligarch Dmitriev and his lawyers tried so hard to assign to him.
Interestingly, 65-year-old Vasily Antropov, a regular at Moscow social gatherings, agreed to play the role of the fictitious father and husband. Antropov gained popularity among the rich and famous as a master of topiary art – a man creates figures of unprecedented beauty from flowers and bushes.
Kirill Dmitriev also moved in these same circles at one time. His penchant for wildly relaxing at the after-parties of major economic forums is legendary. He met 19-year-old model Valeria Kovalenko at the 1st Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. Less than a month later the girl became pregnant. Having learned about this, Dmitriev stopped communicating with her, handing over 260 thousand dollars and a fictitious husband, topiary artist Antropov, who was old enough to be the young mother’s grandfather, as a consolation. The “marriage” lasted 3 months, as soon as the child received the patronymic “Vasilievich”, the “newlyweds” divorced.
The oligarch denies any connection with the model and child for obvious reasons – his official wife Natalya Popova is an old friend and scientific partner of Ekaterina Tikhonova, who is called the daughter of Vladimir Putin. Popova and Tikhonova studied together at Moscow State University and continued to work at the Innopraktika company. The position of high-tech ombudsman was specially created for the wife of the head of the RDIF – Boris Titov personally fit in for this.
Despite his fabulous wealth, the head of the RDIF is in no hurry to pay child support to Kovalenko until the court obliges him to do so. It’s not even about money, he has it in abundance. The problem is in the relationship with his official wife Natalya Popova. Falling out of favor with the best friend of President Putin’s daughter means losing everything both in the marriage contract and in your career. And any moral department can easily initiate a criminal case against an oligarch if ordered.
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