The tragic fate of the models of the world. The tragic fate of the dead beauty queens (51 photos)

Interesting 21.06.2019

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Charming Monica was crowned as the most beautiful woman in Venezuela in 2004, and in 2005 she represented the country at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. By that time, the beauty was divorced, but maintained a close relationship with Thomas Berry, a 39-year-old Briton who was the father of her 5-year-old daughter. The couple moved to the United States but made regular trips to Venezuela for holidays and vacations. This happened in new year holidays in 2014. Their car ran into something sharp, two tires burst at once. The incident itself did not lead to injuries, the family called the police and waited for help. Unfortunately, local robbers got to the scene earlier. An expensive car on the side of the road caught their attention and they shot Monica and Thomas. Their daughter miraculously survived. Arriving just a few minutes later, the police arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called the tragedy "the loss of a decade" and personally oversaw the investigation.

2. Maria José Alvarado, Miss Honduras 2014

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19-year-old Maria Jose Alvarado celebrated the birthday of her sister Sofia's boyfriend, after which neither of them returned home. The birthday boy, Plutarco Ruiz, reported the missing person, who did his best to assist the investigation and supported the heartbroken parents when they filled out the papers about the disappearance of their daughters at the police station. However, interest young man during the search alerted the police, Ruiz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, but he suddenly gave evidence in which he confessed to a double murder. The bodies of the girls were found buried on the banks of the river. Ruiz said that at the celebration he had a serious argument with Sofia, because at the party she, in his opinion, flirted with his friend, showed him signs of attention and too often agreed to dance with him. Enraged, Ruiz shot Sofia and suddenly saw that Maria was a witness to the murder. Maria tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot. A tragic coincidence: at the moment when Ruiz was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was just supposed to fly to London to participate in the Miss World contest. In deference to the family of the victims, Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the competition.

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3. Agnieszka Kotlarska, Miss International 1991

Back in 1990, when Agnieszka was recognized as the most beautiful girl Poland, a certain Jerzy appeared in her life, a secret admirer and pursuer who bombarded the model with threats and declarations of love at the same time. Since he never made direct contact, the girl did not pay attention to the stalker, not suspecting that in six years he would take her life. The turning point was the marriage of Agnieszka. In a court Jerzy said that thereby "she broke his life" and he had to take revenge. He spent hours wandering around the house where Agnieszka's family lived, studying their schedule and habits. In 1996, when the family was heading to their car, Jerzy jumped out of the ambush with a huge knife and rushed at Agnieszka's husband, Yaroslav. He wounded a man in the leg, Agnieszka threw herself on helping her husband, but the assassin, enraged by the failure, unleashed all his anger on her and stabbed her four times in the chest. The police arrested the 36-year-old programmer on the same day, for the murder he was sentenced to 14 years.

4. Alexandra Petrova, Miss Russia 1996

Alexandra's life ended in 2000. The girl was accidentally shot dead in a gang showdown between two criminal gangs. Since the mid-90s, Alexandra has been in a relationship with crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin, who was the deputy director of the market. As a result of the redistribution of spheres of influence, a conflict arose between him and a rival criminal group, and Chuvilin, as they say, was “ordered”. The killer decided to fulfill the order at the moment when Alexandra and her friend were together. The girl was wounded by a ricochet, but she died on the way to the hospital.

5. Svetlana Kotova, Miss Russia 1996

No, this is not a mistake. Both winners of the national beauty pageant were killed. But in the case of Svetlana, everything looks much more sinister. After participating in the competition, Svetlana connected her fate with the legendary killer Alexander Solonik. For the New Year holidays, he invited her to his villa in Greece. Svetlana was fascinated: a huge garden with sculptures and fountains, the highest level of service. The day before her death, she called her mother and said that she was in real paradise. These words turned out to be prophetic: the next day, armed people broke into the villa (later it turned out that the Orekhovskaya criminal group settled scores with Solonik). On February 2, 1997, the body of the strangled bandit was discovered. The investigation found the suitcase with the remains of 22-year-old Sveta only three months later: the killers dismembered the body of the victim and took it to the forest.

6. Laina Keza, Miss Africa 2010

The 29-year-old black model who won the Miss Africa title was stabbed to death in August 2013. The culprit of the tragedy was the 38-year-old club promoter David Kikawa, the father of the 3-year-old daughter of the model and her partner. A few days before the murder, Laina finally broke up with David, saying that he had worn her out with jealousy and scandals. The couple's neighbors confirmed that David constantly made scenes, insults and screams were heard from the house. In the early morning, it was the neighbors who called the police, saying that something terrible was happening in the house, the loud screams suddenly stopped and they suspect something terrible. Suspicions were justified: the arrived outfit found David with a knife in his hand at the threshold of the bathroom. Laina's body lay in the bath.

7. Melody Gershbach, Miss International 2009

Just a year after receiving the crown, Filipino beauty Melody tragically died in a car accident. On August 21, 2010, a passenger bus crashed into the girl's minivan at full speed. The driver immediately surrendered to local police, he said. vehicle got out of control due to a technical problem. Melody was only 24 years old.

8. Genesis Carmona, Miss Tourism 2013, Venezuela

Literally a month after the shocking murder of Monica Speer, another Venezuelan beauty became a victim. Genesis Carmona took part in a street rally for the resignation of Nicolás Maduro and his government. Carmona was outraged by the high crime rate, the low standard of living, and she joined the protesting students on the streets of Valencia. Suddenly, a shot rang out, and the girl fell: the bullet hit her in the head. She was quickly taken to the hospital, the city was engulfed in riots, the victims of which were several more people. However, it is still unknown who shot the beauty queen: the authorities insist that the shot was fired by the opposition, and the latter blame the police.

9. Michaela McAreavey, Ireland's Beauty Queen

In January 2011, Michaela married John McAreavey and traveled with him to honeymoon trip to Mauritius. The couple had a great time, photographed for memory, went on excursions and enjoyed life. On the fateful day, the newlyweds dined at the restaurant of the Legend Hotel (after it was renamed), where they lived, and in the middle of the meal, Michaela needed something in the room. Rising, she found in the room two employees of the hotel, who allegedly entered the room with the aim of robbery. Frightened, they dragged Mikaela into the bathroom and strangled her, as the investigation suggests. However, it was not possible to collect enough evidence, and the jury acquitted both hotel employees.

10. Leslie Mazzara, Miss South Carolina

In 2004, three friends - Leslie Mazzara, Adriana Insonia and Lauren Mianza - celebrated Halloween. Together with the local children, they went around the houses, begging for sweets, singing songs and inventing practical jokes. All three went to bed quite late and fell asleep soundly. Lauren woke up to strange sounds: she realized that there was a robber in the house, and slipped out the back door, taking her phone. Calling the police, the girl did not dare to return to the house, which saved her life. The arriving patrol found Leslie and Adriana dead. The investigation stalled as DNA samples taken from 218 suspects did not lead to the identification of the perpetrator, and even a $100,000 reward did not lead to any results. Surprisingly, the criminal was figured out by... Lauren. Once again reviewing the photos from the crime scene, she drew attention to a detail that experienced detectives missed: a cigarette butt from a rather rare cigarette brand. It was these cigarettes that Adriana's friend's fiancé smoked. Eric Kopple was arrested, DNA examination confirmed the match of the samples, but despite the obviousness of the evidence, he continued to insist that he was so drunk that night that he did not remember anything at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the motive for which he killed two girls remained unsolved.

A well-known proverb says: "Do not be born beautiful, but be born happy." And the fates of the first beauties of the world confirm this wisdom. Their beauty has become an obstacle to happy life and they all died tragically.

Monica Speer, Miss Venezuela 2004

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In 2004, Monica Speer won the Miss Venezuela contest representing the state of Guarico. In 2005, the girl represented her country at the Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok. The winner then was Natalie Glebova, a Russian immigrant from Canada. Monica Speer became the fourth runner-up.

After the end of the contract with the organizers of the competition, Monica studied theater arts at the University of Central Florida. Her efforts were not in vain - in 2010 the girl was given leading role in the TV series Flor Salvaje. Last years life the girl lived with her husband and daughter in the United States.

On the evening of January 6, 2014, when the family went on New Year's holidays to Venezuela, misfortune happened. Their car ran into something sharp, two tires burst at once. The incident itself did not lead to injuries, the family called the police and waited for help. But local robbers got to the scene earlier. An expensive car on the side of the road caught their attention and they shot Monica and Henry. Their 5-year-old daughter miraculously survived. Arriving just a few minutes later, the police arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called the tragedy "the loss of a decade" and personally supervised the progress of the investigation.

Genesis Carmona, Miss Tourism 2013, Venezuela

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The girl who received the title of "Miss Tourism 2013" died in the same year as her compatriot Monica Spear. Genesis participated in the rally, the participants of which demanded the resignation of Nicolas Manduro and his government. A peaceful action ceased to be such after the first shots were fired.

The bullet hit the girl's forehead. The beauty died in the hospital. It is still unknown who killed Genesis. The government blames opposition political forces for this, while the opposition shifts all the blame onto the police.

Maria José Alvarado, Miss Honduras 2014

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In April 2014, the 19-year-old beauty Maria Jose Alvarado received the title of Miss Honduras 2014. In December, the girl was supposed to be in London to represent the country at the Miss World contest, but this, unfortunately, did not happen.

On November 13, 19-year-old Maria and her 23-year-old sister Sofia disappeared. Then they attended a party in honor of the birthday of their friend Plutaro Ruiz, but did not return home. Ruiz himself went to the police, saying that the girls had disappeared right from his birthday.

The sisters' bodies were found buried on the banks of the river. The police found out that Ruiz himself killed the beauties. He admitted that at the holiday he had a serious argument with Sophia, because, in his opinion, she flirted with his friend, showed him signs of attention and too often agreed to dance with him. Enraged, Ruiz shot Sofia and suddenly saw that Maria was a witness to the murder. Maria tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot. At the moment when Ruiz was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was just supposed to fly to London to prepare for the Miss World contest. In deference to the family of the victims, Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the contest.

Agnieszka Kotlarska, Miss International 1991

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Agnieszka Kotlyarskaya - Polish fashion model, winner of the Miss International 1991 contest. After winning the competition, Agnieszka continued her modeling career in New York, and later returned to Poland, where she settled in the city of Wroclaw.

Even when Agnieszka was recognized as the most beautiful girl in Poland, a secret admirer and pursuer of Jerzy appeared in her life, who bombarded the model with threats and declarations of love at the same time. Since he never made direct contact, the girl did not pay attention to him, not suspecting that in six years he would take her life.

The turning point was the marriage of Agnieszka. In court, Jerzy said that by doing so "she broke his life" and he had to take revenge. He spent hours wandering around the house where Agnieszka's family lived, studying their schedule and habits. In 1996, when the family was heading to their car, Jerzy jumped out of the ambush with a huge knife and rushed at Agnieszka's husband, Yaroslav. He wounded the man in the leg, Agnieszka rushed to help her husband, but the murderer, enraged by the failure, unleashed all his anger on her and stabbed her in the chest four times. The police arrested the 36-year-old programmer on the same day, for the murder he was sentenced to 14 years.

Alexandra Petrova, Miss Russia 1996

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In 1996, the final of the national contest "Miss Russia" was broadcast on the channel "Russia" on December 14 at live. For the first time the competition was held outside the capital - in Veliky Novgorod. Of the 40 participants-winners of regional tours, 16-year-old Alexandra Petrova from the city of Cheboksary was recognized as the best.

In 1997, Alexandra took part in numerous TV shows, show programs, presentations, and seriously worked as a fashion model. During the year, Alexandra visited many countries of the world, took part in three international competitions. She also received a gold medal in the World Championships in the arts in the category "model" and a job offer in Hollywood. But she did not accept any of the invitations from foreign agencies.

In July 1997, Alexandra Petrova was recognized as the best at the international modeling competition "Miss Model International", in which representatives of 53 countries took part. At the end of 1997, in Chuvashia, Alexandra Petrova won the "Person of the Year" contest. In 1999, she participated in the Miss Universe pageant.

On September 16, 2000, Alexandra was killed in Cheboksary with one shot to the head, two days before her 20th birthday. Two entrepreneurs were shot with her: Konstantin Chuvilin, the young man of the girl, and his friend Radik Akhmetov (director of the central market). They were shot at the entrance of Konstantin Chuvilin, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the girl became a victim of a showdown between local criminal authorities for spheres of influence.

Svetlana Kotova, finalist of the Miss Russia 1996 contest

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On May 10, 1997, about three kilometers from Athens, Greece, in the town of Saronida, a suitcase with the dismembered corpse of 21-year-old Svetlana Kotova was found under an olive tree in a shallow grave. A Red Stars agency model and Miss Russia 1996 finalist was allegedly murdered on January 30, 1997.

The girl connected her fate with Alexander Solonik (Sasha of Macedon), the star of the criminal world. They met at a nightclub in Moscow on New Year's Eve, and on January 25, 1997, Svetlana flew to Greece at the invitation of a new acquaintance.

At the gangway of the plane, she was met with armfuls of flowers, and the driver in a chic Mercedes took the girl to a luxurious villa, the rent of which cost $ 90,000 a year. Starting from January 26, she called her mother every day and never tired of admiring the miracle that happened to her. In Greece, Solonik was hiding from the Russian authorities and from personal enemies.

The investigation established that on January 30, the crime was committed by Orekhov bandits Alexei Gusev, Alexander Sharapov and Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha-Soldat) on the orders of Sergei Butorin (Osya). On February 2, 1997, the body of the strangled Solonik was found in a villa in Baribobi. Kotova became a witness to the crime, for which she paid with her life.

Layna Keza, Miss Africa 2010

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"Miss Africa 2010" was killed three years after receiving the crown. The dark-skinned beauty took her life civil husband and part-time father of the model's daughter. The man was terribly jealous of his beloved and did not let her live in peace. When Laina decided to end the relationship, her husband did not forgive her for this and three days after the breakup, he stabbed his wife to death.

Melody Gershbach, Miss International 2009

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A year after receiving the title of "Miss International 2009" Filipino model tragically died in an accident. On August 21, 2010, a passenger bus crashed into the girl's minivan at full speed. The bus driver reported that the vehicle was out of control due to a technical problem. Melody was only 24 years old.

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Mikaela McAreavey, Ireland's beauty queen

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In January 2011, Ireland's beauty queen married John McAreavey and went with him on their honeymoon to Mauritius. The couple enjoyed their honeymoon. On the fateful day, the newlyweds dined at the restaurant of the Legend Hotel, where they lived, when in the middle of the evening Michaela needed something in the room. Rising, she found in the room two employees of the hotel, presumably, entered the room with the purpose of robbery. Frightened, they dragged Mikaela into the bathroom and strangled her, as the investigation suggests. However, it was not possible to collect enough evidence, and the jury acquitted both suspects.

Leslie Mazzara, Miss South Carolina

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The arriving patrol found Leslie and Adriana dead. The investigation stalled as DNA samples taken from 218 suspects did not lead to the identification of the perpetrator, and even a $100,000 reward did not lead to any results. Surprisingly, the criminal was figured out by... Lauren. Once again reviewing the photos from the crime scene, she drew attention to a detail that experienced detectives missed: a cigarette butt from a rather rare cigarette brand. It was these cigarettes that Adriana's friend's fiancé smoked. Eric Kopple was arrested, DNA examination confirmed the match of the samples, but despite the obviousness of the evidence, he continued to insist that he was so drunk that night that he did not remember anything at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the motive for which he killed two girls remained unsolved.

Eva Equall, Miss Venezuela 2002

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Eva was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2000 and competed in the Miss Universe pageant the following year. Later she worked as a TV presenter, wrote books. In February 2010, Eva was diagnosed with an advanced stage of breast cancer, the girl underwent an 8-month course of treatment. Ekwall courageously fought the disease and encouraged other women to take care of their health. The treatment did not help Eva, and after a year and 10 months of fighting the disease, on December 17, 2011, the 28-year-old model died in Houston.

Have you noticed that in all the films the main villains have the most beautiful and spectacular girlfriends? It turns out that this stereotype appeared for a reason. And in life, criminals and killers have wives like a selection - titled beauties, models. True, you will not envy their fate: few people have a happy life. This is how “gangster romance” looked without embellishment.

Lesha Soldier - Marina Sherstobitova (Sosnenko)

Alexey Sherstobitov, nicknamed Lesha Soldat, is one of the most famous characters of the "dashing 90s". The regular killer of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya organized crime group was a master of conspiracy and worked so cleanly (without prints and without witnesses) that in his organs for a long time considered a bandit myth. Only in the middle of the 2000s, when he gave up crime, was he discovered, one might say, by accident. Now he is serving a 23-year sentence for a dozen murders and assassination attempts.

In June 2016, Lesha celebrated an enchanting wedding with old friend by correspondence, 31-year-old Petersburger Marina, who now proudly bears his last name. For the sake of a festive photo shoot, he was allowed to dress up as a gangster of the 30s, his chosen one also reincarnated as a burning cabaret beauty. Marina, on the other hand, clearly enjoys the fact that she is married to a former bandit and murderer. Judging by the photos that the girl uploads on her social networks, the fatal beauty is not averse to fooling around.

Richard "The Ice Cream Man" Kuklinsky - Barbara Kuklinskaya

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One of America's most feared mafia thugs was nicknamed the Ice Cream Man for his experiments in freezing the corpses of victims in order to hide the time of death. Colleagues in crime said that he himself was the devil and alone would replace an entire army. Kuklinsky committed his first murder at the age of 13 - he beat to death a boy who teased him with a crossbar for clothes. Years later, already behind bars, he repeatedly "boasted" in an interview that during his career as a killer, he laid down from 100 to 250 people.

The police did not believe many of his stories, but, on the other hand, they put forward a version (which they still adhere to) that Kuklinsky was not just a killer, but a serial maniac and killed some of the victims on his own initiative. Moreover, as happens in such cases, neither relatives nor neighbors suspected this side of his life. He lived with his wife and children in a peaceful suburb of New Jersey, successful businessman and an exemplary family man without bad habits.

Barbara, who has known him since the age of 18, still remembers his "perfect courtship" and makes excuses that she was too naive to notice the danger. Once, even before the wedding, in a fit of jealousy, he poked her with a hunting knife in the neck with lightning speed, and the next day he appeared with a bouquet and a plush toy, explaining that he was mad with love. AT life together he repeatedly fell into anger and used suffocating techniques. And he always had wads of money with him, but Barbara was not interested in their origin.

Kuklinsky was sentenced to two life terms and, after 25 years in prison, ended up in a prison hospital with a rare, incurable vascular inflammation. He desperately clung to life - he asked the doctors to make every attempt to resuscitate him if something happened. However, the wife ordered nothing to be done, and so they did in the hospital. Kuklinsky died in March 2006 at the age of 70.

Aslan Dikaev - Diana Fedorova

Chechen bandit started in Russia with robbery, extortion and kidnapping for ransom, but caught the eye local authorities and fled to Ukraine. There he put together his gang and switched to contract killings. The “Odessa terminator”, as he was soon nicknamed, left corpses all over the country, and in September 2011, together with his accomplices, right on the highway, he shot a special police group that was going to capture him. Two employees were killed and four others were seriously injured.

All this time, 25-year-old common-law wife Diana Fedorova was waiting for him at home - “soft”, “homely”, as relatives speak of her, the owner of a gold medal and a red diploma. She met Dikaev while working in a Crimean bank, where he had an account.

He sought her for six months, could stand for hours under the windows, showered her with chic roses and was unusually courteous. Dikaev introduced himself to the girl and her family as a former GRU officer, a veteran of the Chechen wars and an employee of a construction company. They claimed that they did not suspect him of a murderer. However, after Dikaev was shot during a spetsnaz assault, Diana and her father were accused of possessing weapons. The girlfriend of the murdered killer spent almost a year in a pre-trial detention center and, as they say, lost her child due to stress.

Diana received 15 months, and her father almost two years in prison. Both are already free. Where exactly the leader's bride went is unknown. It is possible that she is in Chechnya or Dagestan, where her relatives live.

Dmitry Genkel (Zhukov) - Tatyana Genkel

The Moscow killer of the Volgovskaya organized criminal group - a bloody gang from Tolyatti, which was in contact with the Solntsevo and Omsk gangs, was married to Tatyana Genkel, a dancer of the Imperial Russian Ballet Maya Plisetskaya. He was so proud of his wife's status that he took her noble surname instead of his simple one (Zhukov). However, this was before his connection with crime.

A veteran of Afghanistan went into bandits for the sake of big money, and recruited by his brother of the same ballerina. First, Dmitry was selling heroin, which was supplied to him by the Volgovskys, then he began to select shooters for them among familiar Afghans. But in the end, he got hooked on the needle, began to make mistakes and got caught trying to sell a pistol in Moscow, lit up in an unsuccessful Togliatti assassination attempt. In 2000, Genkel was sent to prison for 18 years and has since been denied parole twice. Tatyana said in an interview that she divorced her husband because of his drug problems, but she called the accusations of murders bullshit.

Alexander Solonik - Svetlana Kotova

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There is an opinion that the legendary super-killer of the 90s, nicknamed Sasha the Macedonian, is just a journalistic myth: they say, he never fired with two hands, did not differ in accuracy, did not bring down “authorities” right and left, and in general was a simple “six”, whom the bandits called him Sanka or Valera (he had passports in the names of Valeryan Popov and Valery Vereshchagin).

It is known for sure that Solonik killed the Tyumen crime boss Nikolai Prichinich and one of the leaders of the Bauman organized crime group Valery Dlugach, nicknamed Globus. However, formally, he still has dozens of contract killings, which he took upon himself while under investigation.

By and large, Solonik’s conscience should also record the terrible reprisal against his last mistress, a 20-year-old model and participant in the Miss Russia-96 contest, Svetlana Kotova. At the end of January 1997, he invited her to his villa in Greece, where he was hiding from both Russian law enforcement officers and the lads, which means that he could expect that sooner or later they would come for him. The Orekhovskys have arrived. The girl was strangled as an unnecessary witness, and the corpse was dismembered, put in a suitcase and buried in the forest in the hope that they would not be found soon.

The murdered Solonik was treated much more “humanely”: they hid the corpse intact and even planted a scheme on how to find it, so that on the second day the Greek police had the body. Svetlana's remains were found only three months later. In early May 1997, in the villa of Solonik, in the town of Lagonisi near Athens, the Greek police found a suitcase with terrible contents - the dismembered corpse of Svetlana.

Jap and his women

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The famous "authority" Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, did without "wet" articles in his biography - they tried to accuse him of at least two murders, but the courts acquitted him. Nevertheless, his cruelty is legendary, he is credited with the literal execution of threats to “roll into asphalt” and “throw from a helicopter.” Having gained his first experience in the brutal gang of Mongol (the Soviet thief in law Gennady Karkov), Yaponchik put together his own “combat brigade” of hardened criminals, which traveled around the country, extorting money by torture and leaving corpses in each region.

After the collapse of the USSR, Yaponchik fled to America and ran the local Russian mafia throughout the 90s. For the sake of American citizenship, he fictitiously married the pianist of the popular émigré chansonnier Willy Tokarev. But him real love and companion from then until the end of her life remained a prominent blonde Faina Komissar (Roslina). She equally devotedly accompanied him to chic restaurants on Brighton Beach and to Moscow courts.

And a few years after the death of Yaponchik (he never recovered from the assassination attempt in 2009), the yellow press suddenly began to promote supposedly his “young widow” and “last Moscow love” Nicole (Nina) Kuznetsova. Viewers of the TV program "Battle of Psychics" probably recognized one of its participants. Japonchik's acquaintances consider her, to put it mildly, a skilled dreamer. The witch assures that she gave birth to her son Zhora precisely from the star of the underworld. Nicole says that she has known Ivankov since childhood. According to Kuznetsova, she warned him about the danger of an assassination attempt (Yaponchik was fired upon in July 2009, and he died in the hospital two months later), but he did not listen to her.

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Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman - Emma Coronel Aispuro

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All the newspapers wrote about him excitedly: the leader of the largest Mexican drug cartel, Sinaloa, nicknamed Shorty for his height of 168 cm, the most powerful drug lord in the world, according to the United States, made a “millennium escape” from an impregnable Mexican prison. They caught him only six months later as a result of the Black Swan special operation, and a detachment of 40 selected cartel thugs followed in the footsteps of the security forces.

The authorities of Mexico, the United States and a number of other countries know Shorty as one of the most brutal criminals: in the States alone, in 10 years, his militants committed hundreds of murders, kidnappings and brutal torture. However, his wife Emma, a Mexican beauty queen 35 years his junior, complains that he is being treated too harshly in prison. “He is a loving family man, not at all rude or cruel, I have never heard a bad word from him, he won’t hurt a fly.”

Coronel is the third or fourth wife of Guzman, they have five-year-old twin daughters, and Shorty has about 20 children in total. He is often accused of cruelty to women, but Emma defends him here too: “He would never touch a woman with bad intentions, would not force her to do what she does not want.” She admits that all the years next to him she lives like “in the center of a hurricane”, but swears that she will follow her husband wherever he is sent: “I love him. He is the father of my children."

Andrey Chernikov and Larisa Chernikova

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The fate of the popular singer has developed in the spirit of the criminal 90s. The wife of businessman Andrei Chernikov, who dealt in metals, recorded albums with her husband's money, but three years after the wedding, the singer was widowed: 27-year-old Chernikov was shot dead. Chernikova at that time was only 21 years old.

“The husband was found with a bullet in his head in the cemetery, on the grave of his father. The police ruled it a suicide and immediately closed the case. I still cannot understand: how could a right-hander shoot himself in the left temple? - said Larisa in an interview with the Caravan of History magazine. - I had nothing left: an apartment, a summer house, a car - everything had to be paid for the so-called debts. I returned to my mother with one small suitcase.”

After the death of her husband, the bandits pestered the singer: they came to her house, demanding to return her husband's debts, and once they took her with her mother to the forest, threatening reprisals. Chernikova asked the producer Alexander Tolmatsky for protection, and he agreed to take the widow under guardianship with the condition of working for himself. During the years of cooperation with Tolmatsky Sr., Chernikova recorded the song "Who ...", dedicated to her murdered husband.

The second husband of Larisa was an American, whom the singer met through the Internet. The fact that in her homeland she was a popular pop singer, Larisa confessed to her second husband only on the first wedding anniversary. Now in the States, the former singer is raising her son, working on her own farm and providing the services of a naturopathic doctor.

Irina Ziroyan and Gevorg Ziroyan named Monkey

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The life story of Irina Ziroyan is closely intertwined with the criminal history of Moscow in the mid-90s. Her husband Gevorg Ziroyan led the Armenian wing of one of the most powerful Orekhovskaya criminal groups in the capital. He knew well the famous criminal general Sylvester, his handy Vitokha. Ziroyan's people oversaw business in the south of Moscow. In particular, he controlled the revenues of the city's largest market, the Moskvoretsky market, the firms Varshavsky, Esso, and others. When influence Orekhovskaya organized criminal group in Moscow weakened, the leader of the Mytishchi criminal group named Lado began to claim the profits of the Monkey. An attempt to pay off did not lead to anything, and during one of the meetings, Ziroyan was shot not far from his house on Kirovogradskaya Street.

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It was then that Irina entered the stage. She tried to transfer the late husband's business to a non-criminal channel, to expel his friends from the Moskvoretsky market. This attempt ended tragically. At first, the Monkey's companions began to demand their share from the income of the deceased authority. And then one of her husband's subordinates, a member of the gang Vahagn Oganesyan, nicknamed Tso, rebelled against Ziroyan. He set a gang of killers on Irina. Irina managed to survive, she recognized the voice of one of them, and when Vahagn was caught a few years later, she testified at the trial. A year ago, Tso received 18 years. However, his friends remained at large. Obviously, Irina Ziroyan died at their hands - in 2012, the killers shot her when she left the restaurant. At that moment, Irina was 52 years old. Her husband died from the bullets of killers in 2003, her son - in 2005. The guard, who at that moment was with the woman, could not save the hostess, and soon he himself died in the hospital.

Who would have thought that in Russia the title of beauty queen could become deadly? Meanwhile, let's remember: the finalist of the Miss Russia-96 contest, Svetlana Kotova, was found in Greece in 1997 - the dismembered body lay in a suitcase, and she was killed along with the famous killer Alexander Solonik, the beauty's "boyfriend". A couple of years ago, "Miss Sochi" was mutilated beyond recognition - a scoundrel doused it with sulfuric acid.

And here is another dead queen. Today marks exactly ten days since Miss Russia Sasha Petrova was shot in Cheboksary. And exactly a week since her funeral took place. They say the city has never seen anything like it. Thousands of people accompanied her on her last journey.
She did not live to be twenty in just two days. Her mother Tatyana Nikolaevna was away. But I was going to come for my 20th birthday. And I had to go to the funeral.
When in 1996 a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from Cheboksary, Sasha Petrova, was recognized as the "best" in all of Russia, Tatyana Nikolaevna said: "But in our family everyone is like that. A lot of blood is mixed, there is even a gypsy." Both her grandmother and stepfather doted on her soul. In 1997, she was chosen "Person of the Year" in Chuvashia ...
On that fateful evening, at about eight o'clock, Sasha was returning home with her friend Konstantin Chuvilin, as well as his friend, the deputy director of the Central market, Radik Akhmetov.
They were going up to the third floor when a man with a gun suddenly appeared on the way. The killer methodically put several bullets into each of them. Eight for three. Everyone also received a control shot. Chuvilin died on the spot, Sasha - in the ambulance, Akhmetov - in intensive care.
Then everyone discussed why the neighbors did not hear the shots. Firstly, because the gun was silenced, and secondly, the tenant opposite that evening was noisily "washing" another purchase. Only the neighbor's dog, boxer Raja, reacted to suspicious fuss on the stairs. When her mistress opened the door, the first thing she saw was the muzzle of a pistol aimed straight at her face. But the killer did not shoot at the dumbfounded woman, but rushed out. And that opened a terrible picture: three bloody bodies were lying on the landing. The girl was in death throes.
When the neighbor came to her senses, she remembered what the killer looked like: height 175 centimeters, round face, wide, bulging eyes, dressed in a short dark jacket. The grannies near the entrance later recalled that a suspicious green passenger car had been standing at the entrance for a long time the day before. Marks do not know.
Immediately after the murder, the investigation considered it necessary to develop as many as ten versions. True, one dominated: another criminal showdown took place. After all, both companions of A. Petrova are well-known people among local authorities, both are involved in dubious business. And in the Central market, the struggle for spheres of influence has never stopped. Petrova, most likely, turned out to be an accidental witness to a contract killing and paid for it with her life.
Meanwhile, Sasha Petrova, after receiving the title of "Miss Russia-96" was the idol of many girls. An ordinary schoolgirl from a simple family, Cinderella, received a real glass slipper. Specialists from the Cheboksary House of Models pinned a lot of hopes on her: she looked very impressive in national costumes.
Shura moved to Moscow. She settled in a hostel, however, quite comfortable. Catwalks, commercials, parties... Who doesn't get dizzy? Victory in another competition, again everyone's attention.
But as it happens with athletes and movie stars, suddenly something "stuck", there were minor life problems. And then back in 1998, her manager, Bulgarian Vasil Papazov, died under mysterious circumstances. It didn't work out with the preparation for the Miss Eurasia and Miss Universe contests...
Compatriots increasingly began to see her in their hometown. A year and a half ago, she returned to Cheboksary for good. She entered the Faculty of Linguistics of the Pedagogical University and moved further and further away from the modeling business. I even gained weight. But from the billboards in the city, she still beamed a charming smile.
When she had a life partner - a 37-year-old prosperous, as it seemed to her, businessman Konstantin Chuvilin, she hardly clearly imagined his "occupations". Could only guess. But, of course, no one expected such a tragic ending.
As the Cheboksary police department told us, impressive forces are involved in solving this crime. The killer of "Miss Russia" will be searched no matter what: the policemen also loved Shurochka...

A sinister bandit and a stunning beauty are classics of the criminal genre. But it is based on reality, which is sometimes more difficult to believe than in the movies. Uninvented stories and "gangster romance" without embellishment.

Lesha Soldier - Marina Sherstobitova (Sosnenko)

Alexey Sherstobitov, nicknamed Lesha Soldat, is one of the most famous characters of the "dashing 90s". The full-time killer of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya organized criminal group was a master of conspiracy and worked so “cleanly” (without prints and without witnesses) that for a long time he was considered a gangster myth in the authorities. Only in the middle of the 2000s, when he had long since given up crime, was he discovered, one might say, by accident. Now he is serving a 23-year sentence for a dozen murders and assassination attempts.

Alexey Sherstobitov in Paris

In June 2016, Lesha celebrated an enchanting wedding right in the colony with an old pen pal, 31-year-old Petersburger Marina, who now proudly bears his last name. For the sake of a festive photo shoot, he was allowed to dress up as a gangster of the 30s, his chosen one also reincarnated as a burning cabaret beauty.

“There are too few real men at large,” the former liquidator said in response to why beauties like his wife find love behind bars. However, judging by Marina, something else suggests itself: in a photo on social networks, a brunette with pouted lips either flaunts in officer epaulettes of the Navy and with a pistol, or depicts a forensic expert at an autopsy, moreover, marks the location of the address of the St. Petersburg psychiatric hospital for criminals - not the most “normal” »Woman, agree.

Richard "The Ice Cream Man" Kuklinsky - Barbara Kuklinskaya

One of America's most feared mafia thugs was nicknamed the Ice Cream Man for his experiments in freezing the corpses of victims in order to hide the time of death. Colleagues in crime said that he was "the devil himself" and "alone would replace an entire army." Kuklinsky committed his first murder at the age of 13 - he beat to death a boy who teased him with a crossbar for clothes. Years later, already behind bars, he repeatedly "boasted" in an interview that during his career as a killer, he laid down from 100 to 250 people.

The police did not believe many of his stories, but, on the other hand, they put forward a version (which they still adhere to) that Kuklinsky was not just a killer, but a serial maniac and killed some of the victims on his own initiative. Moreover, as happens in such cases, neither relatives nor neighbors suspected this side of his life. He lived with his wife and children in a peaceful suburb of New Jersey, was known as a successful businessman and an exemplary family man without bad habits.

Barbara, who has known him since she was 18, still remembers his "perfect courtship" and makes excuses that she was "too naive" to see danger. Once, even before the wedding, in a fit of jealousy, he poked her in the neck with a hunting knife with lightning speed, and the next day he appeared with a bouquet and a plush toy, explaining that he was "mad with love." In his life together, he more than once fell into anger and used suffocating techniques. And he always had wads of money with him, but Barbara was not interested in their origin.

Aslan Dikaev - Diana Fedorova

The Chechen bandit started in Russia with robbery, extortion and kidnapping for ransom, but caught the eye of local authorities and fled to Ukraine. There he put together his gang and switched to contract killings. The “Odessa terminator”, as he was soon nicknamed, left corpses all over the country, and in September 2011, together with his accomplices, right on the highway, he shot a special police group that was going to capture him. Two employees were killed and four others were seriously injured.

Dmitry Genkel (Zhukov) - Tatyana Genkel

The Moscow killer of the "Volgovskaya" organized crime group - a bloody gang from Tolyatti, which was in contact with the Solntsevo and Omsk gangs, was married to Tatyana Genkel, a dancer of the "Imperial Russian Ballet" Maya Plisetskaya. He was so proud of his wife's status that he took her "noble" surname instead of his "simple" one (Zhukov). However, this was before his connection with crime.

Dmitry Genkel

Alexander Solonik - Svetlana Kotova

There is an opinion that the legendary super-killer of the 90s, nicknamed Sasha the Macedonian, is just a journalistic myth: they say, he never shot with two hands, did not differ in accuracy, did not bring down "authorities" right and left, and in general was a simple "six", whom the bandits called him Sanka or Valera (he had passports in the names of Valeryan Popov and Valery Vereshchagin).

By and large, Solonik’s conscience should also record the terrible reprisal against his last mistress, a 20-year-old model and participant in the Miss Russia-96 contest, Svetlana Kotova. At the end of January 1997, he invited her to his villa in Greece, where he was hiding from both Russian law enforcement officers and the lads, which means that he could expect that sooner or later someone would come after him. The Orekhovskys have arrived. The girl was strangled as an unnecessary witness, and the corpse was dismembered, put in a suitcase and buried in the forest in the hope that they would not be found soon.

Jap and his women

After the collapse of the USSR, Yaponchik fled to America and ran the local "Russian mafia" throughout the 90s. For the sake of American citizenship, he fictitiously married the pianist of the popular émigré chansonnier Willy Tokarev. But his real love and companion from then until the end of his life remained a prominent blonde Faina Komissar (Roslina). She equally devotedly accompanied him to chic restaurants on Brighton Beach and to Moscow courts.

(c) RIA Novosti / Kirill Kalinnikov

And a few years after the death of Yaponchik (he never recovered from the assassination attempt in 2009), the yellow press suddenly began to promote supposedly his “young widow” and “last Moscow love” Nicole (Nina) Kuznetsova.

Interviews with her were published, full of some wild fables, the false widow, among other things, claimed that Ivankov was the father of her eldest son.

(c) Nicole Kuznetsova / Instagram
In general, viewers of the TV program "Battle of Psychics" probably recognized one of its participants. Needless to say, Yaponchik's acquaintances consider her, to put it mildly, a skillful dreamer.

Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman - Emma Coronel Aispuro

A year ago, all the newspapers enthusiastically wrote about him: the leader of the largest Mexican drug cartel, Sinaloa, nicknamed Shorty for his height of 168 cm, "the most powerful drug lord in the world", according to the United States, made a "millennium escape" from impregnable Mexican prison. They caught him only six months later as a result of the Black Swan special operation, and a detachment of 40 selected cartel thugs followed in the footsteps of the security forces.