The secret jet-setting daughter of Russian despot Vladimir Putin has allegedly turned back on the Motherland and is now supporting Ukraine in the bloody three-year conflict.
European reports claim Elizaveta Rudnova has now ditched her “beloved” St. Petersburg for Paris where she will no doubt continue flying to hot spots in private planes, cloaked in pricy designer wear and knocking back Champagne by the gallon.
The Kremlin has always denied that Putin has any relation to 22-year-old Elizaveta Rudnova. In Paris, Putin’s suspected princess works at two anti-war art galleries.
DEAR OLD VLAD: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Friday, June 14, 2024.Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko /AP Photo
Now, she claims she is living in self-imposed exile, lamenting being unable to “make an extra lap around my beloved St. Petersburg.”
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In one thinly veiled attack, she blasted the Vlad Hatter as the “man who took millions of lives and destroyed mine.”
She wrote: “It’s liberating to be able to show my face to the world again. It reminds me of who I am and who destroyed my life.”
Russian sources say Rudnov was born in 2003, the result of one of Putin’s numerous sexual assignations. Her mother is reportedly former cleaning woman Svetlana Krivonogikh, now in her 40s. She is now a multimillionaire, somehow owning a $100 million property empire and a stake in the Rossiya Bank.
FROM CLEANING LADY TO OLIGARCH: The mother, Svetlana Krivonogikh. SOCIAL MEDIA
In addition, she owns a St. Petersburg sex club called Leningrad Centre and well known for its raunchy shows.
Love child Rudnova was raised in luxury, often flaunting her staggering wealth and luxe lifestyle as the country grappled with poverty, the pandemic and the bloody war with Ukraine. And then she disappeared from social media, perhaps irking her father with her tone deaf posts.
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Like generations of Russian exiles, she reemerged in Paris. This time, she used the name Elizaveta Rudnova. Ukraine claimed she abandoned the patronymic Vladimirovna, which would confirm her father’s name as Vladimir.
She graduated from ICART School of Cultural and Art Management in 2024 and “works” at two Parisian galleries — L Galerie in Belleville and Espace Albatros in Montreuil — both host anti-war and dissident exhibitions.
MY DAD THE DESPOT: Putin’s reputed love child, Elizaveta Rudnova. INSTAGRAM
Not everyone is pleased with the antics of the Russian princess, particularly ex-pats forced to flee the Russian strongman’s wrath. To the exiles, she’s like barf in the borscht.
Artist Nastya Rodionova severed ties with the galleries when she learned of Rudnova’s involvement.
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“It is inadmissible to allow a person who comes from a family of beneficiaries of [Putin’s] regime to come into confrontation with the victims of that regime,” she wrote on Facebook. “My personal answer in this case is no.”
In this file photo taken on June 6, 2008 Russian former gymnast Alina Kabaeva attends the senior event at European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics in Turin.Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE /AFP via Getty Images
One of the gallery directors told The Times: “She looks like Putin but so do 100,000 other people. I haven’t seen a DNA test.”
Putin officially recognizes only two daughters from his previous marriage. He has never acknowledged Luiza — nor denied her.
Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter Dr. Maria Vorontsova has her own woes.Photo by SCREENGRAB /YOUTUBE
Also part of the Putin paternity patch is former gymnast-turned-media mogul Alina Kabaeva. She is reportedly the mother of several of his children, and again, the despot has not commented on the relationship or alleged children with Kaebeva.
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