Sergei Mavrodi and his children. Gray cardinals: women who helped Sergei Mavrodi build the famous pyramid

Sergey Mavrodi

The name of this swindler was almost the most famous in the 1990s. And in the creation and successful work of MMM, Sergei was helped by his family, including three women from his inner circle - his wife Elena, her younger sister Oksana and the wife of Mavrodi’s younger brother, Marina. All women played a significant role in building a financial pyramid that deprived numerous investors of their savings.

Elena Mavrodi

In the case of Sergei Mavrodi’s family, the scheme where the wife does housework and waits for her husband to get home from work does not work. Elena was directly involved in her husband’s business - she was his assistant. However, it is difficult to talk about the list of her responsibilities.

The girl was called “the most beautiful butterfly in Mavrodi’s collection” (Sergei could boast of an impressive collection of butterflies. - Ed.). In addition to her natural beauty, Elena had considerable ambitions.

Elena Mavrodi

In 1995, she planned to participate in the State Duma elections and be a representative from the Tula region. They say that in terms of the amount of finance invested in Elena’s promotional campaign, not a single candidate could compete with her. It’s logical, because the money was given by my husband, a successful businessman. However, this did not help; Elena was unable to gain support from a sufficient number of voters.

Elena made her second attempt to get into the State Duma in 1998, then she decided to act for sure and bought votes. She was caught in this case and, by court decision, was removed from participation in the elections. Surely the idea of ​​​​trying to get into the State Duma was more interesting to Sergei, and not to his wife.

Elena Mavrodi

But this is not the last time Elena's name was mentioned in the context of an ambiguous situation. In 2001, she kidnapped a baby. The woman eventually returned the baby herself, explaining her actions by saying that she wanted to help her childless friend. But it is possible that Elena stole the boy for herself, because Sergei Mavrodi honestly admitted that his wife wanted children, but he did not. However, according to some reports, Sergei and Elena still have a child - a daughter born in 1982. It was to her that Elena dedicated her life after her divorce from her husband in 2005. By the way, she chose to go into the shadows and even changed her name and appearance.

Oksana Pavlyuchenko (Elena's younger sister)

Oksana Pavlyuchenko came to Moscow in the late 1990s, entered the Plekhanov Institute, lived on the money of her sister’s husband, but was able to thank him for this generosity.

Enterprising Oksana created a virtual exchange on the Internet, where people invested very real money. Then that same exchange seemed to disappear into thin air along with all the deposits, which amounted to millions of dollars. Oksana started this “business” together with Sergei Mavrodi, after which they were both put on the wanted list by Interpol. However, after some time, all charges against them were dropped, and the fictitious exchange was called simply an online game in which people can lose and win money at will.

The second wife of the famous singer Oleg Gazmanov was married to Vyacheslav Mavrodi, the brother of Sergei Mavrodi. The brothers were involved in the notorious MMM financial pyramid. Marina Gazmanova, married to Vyacheslav Mavrodi, gave birth to a son.

Gazmanov married Marina 12 years after his divorce from his first wife Irina. From his first marriage, Gazmanov had a son, Rodion. Marina has a son, Philip, from Mavrodi, but the guy decided to take his adoptive father’s surname. The couple also have a joint daughter, Marianna, who was born on December 16, 2003. The girl is already taking part in professional photo shoots, so it is possible that she will become a model.

Gazmanov’s wife, Mavrodi’s ex-wife: Luzhkov and Yudashkin were guests at the wedding

Marina Anatolyevna Muravyova was born in 1969 in the city of Voronezh. After Marina married Vyacheslav Mavrodi, she began working as an accountant in the MMM financial pyramid. After the Mavrodi brothers, one after another, were sent to prison for financial fraud, Marina left her husband. After some time, they began to notice her in the company of the famous singer Oleg Gazmanov. It is known that the lovers dated for a long time, but Marina was in no hurry to get married. Gazmanov had to make a lot of efforts to get his beloved woman to accept his marriage proposal.

Marina Mavrodi, when she finally decided to marry the singer, put forward a number of demands. The woman wanted to see a luxurious red convertible and a thousand candles at her wedding. The bride took upon herself the decoration of the event, since Marina is a designer by training. An extraordinary wedding dress with a white cap was sewn for her by the outstanding fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin. The then mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, Valentin Yudashkin and his wife and the Fetisovs were present at the wedding as guests. The event took place in a popular club.

Gazmanov's wife, Mavrodi's ex-wife: eldest son did not come to the wedding

Marina Gazmanova is quite an interesting woman. Of course, you need to have intelligence and good intuition in order to get married twice very successfully. Rumor has it that after her marriage to Mavrodi, Marina was left with considerable capital and real estate. A woman could quickly get comfortable in any company and make a good impression. Marina Gazmanova has developed an extraordinary flair. She looks great and has maintained a great figure. The woman was directly involved in the design of her own house in Serebryany Bor. Friends of the famous family recognize their home as one of the most comfortable.

Rodin’s eldest son and Oleg Gazmanov’s ex-wife, Irina, was not seen at the wedding. Irina herself said that Oleg Gazmanov is by nature a rather tough person with a complex character. However, the former spouses did not start scandals and proceedings. Oleg and Irina still maintained good relations and parted like civilized people.

The wife of the late Sergei Mavrodi ensured a comfortable life for herself during 12 years of marriage. Elena was the wife of the founder of MMM for 12 years, from 1993 to 2005. According to rumors, she changed her name and appearance after the divorce. What happened to her is not known for certain. According to some sources, Elena got married again. According to others, he lives with his mother and daughter from Sergei Mavrodi in a house in the Moscow region. She will turn 49 this summer.

Elena is from the Ukrainian Zaporozhye, her maiden name is Pavlyuchenko. Her family was simple. My mother worked as an engineer, my father was a candidate of technical sciences and headed a laboratory at the Titanium Research Institute. Elena studied in absentia at the philological department of the pedagogical institute and worked as a nanny in a kindergarten.

In 1989, a 20-year-old girl took part in the Zaporozhye beauty contest, where she caused a scandal. Lena stood out from the rest of the girls; there were rumors around her about a connection with an influential patron. Even then, she was ready to do a lot for the sake of success. One of the jury members of the competition, Valentin Druzhinin, recalls.

In those years, the population of Zaporozhye lived poorly, so the contestants dressed inconspicuously, but Elena Pavlyuchenko immediately stunned with expensive outfits. It was rumored that Elena had found a non-local sponsor. Her mother tried to put pressure on the jury, and Elena was cunning with all her might. We decided to give the Audience Choice Award to the one for whom the audience clapping loudest. Elena brought a support group who gave her a standing ovation. As a result, Pavlyuchenko became “Vice Miss”. And - she caused us a scandal. She filed a statement with the police that her jewelry was stolen from her dressing room. Everyone was summoned for questioning. The jewelry was not found. We are still convinced that this scandal was started in retaliation for the loss.

Elena met her future husband in Moscow. In the early 90s, Elena came to conquer the capital and appeared in Yuri Nikolaev’s popular television competition “Morning Star”. Sergei Mavrodi sat on his jury. The spectacular, confident girl charmed the entrepreneur. He was casting models for MMM advertising and invited Elena to take part in the filming. Soon the girl became the face of the company, she was called the “Queen of MMM.” The couple started dating.

Especially for his beloved, Mavrodi organized international beauty contests, in which she won. Elena won many titles and headed the MMM-Model modeling agency founded by Sergei. According to Elena, they were in no hurry to register the marriage and lived separately. “We were just friends for a long time, we decided to register the relationship after criminal prosecution began against Serezha... We were not like ordinary lovers.” In an interview, Mavrodi said that he could not imagine how it was possible to live with a woman in the same apartment.

A number of scandals are associated with Elena’s name. Her name appeared in the case of the abduction of a baby from the Pediatrics Research Institute, who was being treated there. A clinic employee carried the child out of the building and handed it over to the women sitting in a car parked nearby. Research institute staff raised the alarm when they noticed that the baby was not there. The car with the kidnappers was stopped and they were taken to the police. As it turned out, Elena’s infertile friend planned to illegally adopt the baby. Mavrodi’s wife had connections at the research institute, and she volunteered to help organize the kidnapping. During the investigation, the suspects changed their testimony and confused the investigation so much that the case had to be closed.

The scandal with the attempted abduction of a child is not the only dark spot in the biography of Elena Mavrodi. In the second half of the 90s, she tried to make a career in politics. The woman ran for State Duma deputy three times, but was never able to achieve what she wanted. Twice the candidacy was withdrawn on the eve of the vote due to bribery of voters, and on the third she did not receive the required number of votes.

A person from Mavrodi’s entourage said that in the MMM scam, Elena acted as an eminence grise, representing people with great connections. When Sergei was hiding from criminal liability, Elena served as an intermediary in his affairs and monitored the flow of money. According to rumors, it was she who handed her husband over to law enforcement agencies in exchange for “absolution of sins.”

Mavrodi’s personality was the main reason for the participation of almost all the actors in the film by Eldar Salavatov and producer Sergei Livnev. And Fyodor Bondarchuk (banker Belyavsky), and Alexey Serebryakov (Sergei Mamontov, aka Mavrodi), and Ekaterina Vilkova (journalist Vera), and Anna Mikhalkova (Mamontov’s wife), and Daniil Spivakovsky (lawyer Mamontov Gutov) were primarily interested in the events related to MMM. The nostalgic chaos of the 1990s and the odious personality of the main character interested not only the project participants. The premiere was attended by politician Alexei Mitrofanov, directors Alexander Strizhenov, Vladimir Khotinenko, actresses Olesya Sudzilovskaya, Anna Semenovich, actors Alexander Porokhovshchikov and Konstantin Kryukov, radio producer Mikhail Kozyrev, Renat Davletyarov, chief producer of the TV Center channel Alexander Oleynikov and, of course, Lenya Golubkov" - actor Vladimir Permyakov.

Those who often attend our company's premieres will be disappointed. This film is not a comedy. "Office Romance" is playing in the next room. The film is long - 3 hours 40 minutes. Just a joke,” producer Sergei Livnev took the floor. - Today we can look at the events of that time soberly from the outside. We didn’t want to make a film about fraud, because Mavrodi was never only interested in money, he wanted to own the world. By the way, when I came to him with the script, the first thing he said was that I looked like his cellmate, a repeat killer. Of course, we invited Sergei Mavrodi to the premiere, but he chose to remain in the shadows.

The idea of ​​creating a film about one of the most scandalous pages in the history of perestroika Russia came to Livnev’s mind when, in 2007, he was one of the first to read the story “Pyramid” by Sergei Mavrodi, which he wrote in prison. The producer initially saw only Alexey Serebryakov in the role of Mamontov-Mavrodi. In the film, the main character is presented as a kind of Robin Hood, taking money from the rich to give to the poor. Mamontov cares for Russia, his goal is to prevent several biased banks from privatizing the entire country “on the sly.” He is opposed by the cynical banker Belyavsky, played by Fyodor Bondarchuk. Everything ends tragically: bandits kidnap Mamontov's daughter, his wife commits suicide, and the hero himself is arrested.

Fyodor Bondarchuk did not have time to come to the official part, but appeared at the after-party, which took place in the restaurant in Oktyabr. The director’s phone was ringing off the hook: the tragic news about the death of Lyudmila Gurchenko was spreading around the cinema center.

At the banquet, the leading actor Alexey Serebryakov hid from the party in a separate room, and actress Ekaterina Vilkova also rested there.

- Do you believe that Mavrodi was not a swindler, but Robin Hood? - the Glomu.Ru columnist asked Vilkova.
- I’m interested in the character played by Alexey Serebryakov. He is complex, ambiguous, and sometimes a mad genius, but Robin Hood - no, I don’t believe it...

Politician Alexey Mitrofanov shared his impressions of the film:

The film’s script does not entirely correspond to reality,” Mitrofanov said after the screening. - And then Mavrodi did not have any wife, and his daughter was not kidnapped.

Mavrodi had a wife at that time, and also a daughter. From 1993 to 2005 he was married to Elena Pavlyuchenko, owner of the title "Miss MMM". Mavrodi separated from his wife when he went to prison. He said the following about the reasons: “For the first three years, everyone was sure that I would never get out. I’d get thirty. Well, how can someone wait for you for so many years?” Six months after his arrest, Sergei filed for divorce and at the same time wrote a statement addressed to the head of the prison that he refused to see his wife and asked not to let her in. Why in the autobiographical story it was necessary to “kill” his wife, who was living peacefully in the Moscow region, remains a mystery. Like many other things in the life of a financial genius.

Anna Gorbashova, columnist

On March 26, perhaps the most famous financial fraudster from the 90s died in Moscow at the age of 62. Sergey Mavrodi. The day before he was hospitalized from a bus stop. A random passer-by called an ambulance for him - Mavrodi complained of weakness and pain in his heart.Sergei Mavrodi is treated differently, because there are those who consider him a financial genius, an unusually successful entrepreneur and, in some way, an idealist. Others believe that he is a real swindler who should be behind bars. Next, we will talk not about Mavrodi’s personality, but about his ex-wife - a successful fashion model, winner of beauty contests, child abductor and three times under-deputy of the State Duma Elena Pavlyuchenko. Sergei and Elena were married from 1993 to 2005.

Elena Pavlyuchenko

According to some sources, Elena got married again. According to others, he lives with his mother and daughter from Sergei Mavrodi in a house in the Moscow region. She will turn 49 this summer.

Elena is from the Ukrainian Zaporozhye, her maiden name is Pavlyuchenko. Her family was simple. My mother worked as an engineer, my father was a candidate of technical sciences and headed a laboratory at the Titanium Research Institute.

After school, Elena went to study at the Faculty of Philology of the Zaporozhye Pedagogical Institute in the correspondence department. In 1989 she took part in the competition "Miss Zaporozhye". Possessing natural charisma, she effortlessly made it to the top 10 finalists.

As eyewitnesses say, Lena had the brightest and most outstanding outfits. However, despite all her efforts, the beauty lost first place to another girl, taking the title “Vice Miss”.

After the loss, Elena Pavlyuchenko created a scandal, reported that her expensive earrings were stolen from her dressing room, and wrote a statement to the police. The girl's mother even attempted to challenge the result of the competition through legal proceedings.

At the dawn of the 1990s, Elena moved to the Russian capital. Taking part in the then popular television competition Yuri Nikolaev "Morning Star", she met Sergei Mavrodi, who occupied a seat on the jury. The founder of MMM was just then recruiting models for an advertising campaign for the pyramid, and the bright and talented Elena blew him away.

Soon the girl became the face of the company, she was called the “Queen of MMM.” The couple started dating.

Especially for his beloved, Mavrodi organized international beauty contests, in which she won. Elena won many titles and headed the MMM-Models modeling agency founded by Sergei.

According to Elena, they were in no hurry to register the marriage and lived separately.

We were just friends for a long time, we decided to register the relationship after criminal prosecution began against Serezha... We were not like ordinary lovers.

In an interview, Mavrodi said that he could not imagine how it was possible to live with a woman in the same apartment.

Sergey Mavrodi

Mrs. Mavrodi headed one of the company’s departments, for which she received a good salary. When Sergei was hiding from criminal liability, she was his way of connecting with the right people, and also kept track of the money.

According to rumors, it was Elena Mavrodi who “surrendered” her husband to the police so as not to be held accountable for her own sins.

A number of scandals are associated with Elena’s name. She was involved in the case of the kidnapping of a baby from the Pediatrics Research Institute, who was being treated there.

A clinic employee carried the child out of the building and handed it over to the women sitting in a car parked nearby. Research institute staff raised the alarm when they noticed that the baby was not there. The car with the kidnappers was stopped and they were taken to the police.

As it turned out, Elena’s infertile friend planned to illegally adopt the baby.

Mavrodi’s wife had connections at the research institute, and she volunteered to help organize the kidnapping. During the investigation, the suspects changed their testimony and confused the investigation so much that the case had to be closed.

The scandal with the attempted kidnapping of a child is not the only dark spot in the biography of Elena Mavrodi.

In the second half of the 90s, she tried to make a career in politics.

The woman ran for State Duma deputy three times, but was never able to achieve what she wanted.

A person from Mavrodi’s entourage said that in the MMM scam, Elena acted as an eminence grise, representing people with great connections.

In 2005, Sergei and Elena officially divorced. After a divorce, a woman changed not only her last name, but also her appearance. Mentions of her in the media have ended.

According to acquaintances of the late Mavrodi, the woman now leads a quiet life with her mother and daughter, who was born from Sergei.

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