The name of Sergei Mavrodi is known far beyond the borders of Russia. The founder of the largest financial pyramid in the history of our country, MMM, is treated differently today. Some call him a brilliant entrepreneur, others call him a swindler who embezzled the money of millions of people. Despite such opposite assessments, the biography of Mavrodi still does not cease to interest society. Sergei's personal life deserves special attention, because his legal wife was a fashion model and winner of beauty contests Elena Pavlyuchenko.
Mavrodi's wife's family
Pavlyuchenko Elena Alexandrovna was born in the Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye on June 7, 1969. The girl's mother worked as an engineer, her father was a candidate of technical sciences, headed a laboratory at the Research Institute of Titanium. Later, the Pavlyuchenkos had another daughter, who was named Oksana.
School years
Lena Pavlyuchenko grew up a quiet and uncommunicative child. She was an ordinary girl with pigtails and stood out among her classmates except for her more attractive appearance. Pavlyuchenko studied at school number 92city of Zaporozhye. In the junior and middle grades, Lena had good academic performance, but before leaving school, triples began to appear in her diary. The girl's favorite subjects were literature and history, but she did not like physical education. In her free time, the future wife of Mavrodi attended a music school and a theater studio.
Participation in a beauty contest
After graduating from school, Lena entered the philological faculty of the Zaporozhye Pedagogical Institute in absentia, which she later left, and at the same time got a job as a nanny in a kindergarten. In 1989, the girl, who by that time had turned into a real beauty, decided to take part in the Miss Zaporozhye contest. Pavlyuchenko, who had studied at a theater studio behind her, managed to present herself favorably and easily made it to the top ten finalists. According to eyewitnesses, Elena had the most expensive outfits at the competition. It was rumored that she was the protégé of a we althy and influential man, but his name was not disclosed. The girl was accompanied to the competition by her mother. She tried to pressure the jury to award the victory to her daughter. However, despite all her efforts, the first place was taken by another contestant. Elena got the title of "Vice-Miss".
Elena Pavlyuchenko was angry at the loss and decided to take revenge on the organizers and participants of the contest. She raised a loud scandal, stating that during the performance, precious earrings disappeared from her dressing room, and wrote a statement to the police. Everyone involved in the competitionsearched and summoned to law enforcement agencies for interrogation, but it was not possible to find the jewelry. It was obvious that no one had stolen the girl's earrings, but everyone who was suspected of kidnapping had to endure unpleasant humiliation then. Elena's mother could not calm down for a long time because of her daughter's loss and even tried to challenge the results of the contest through the courts.
Moving to the capital, getting to know Mavrodi
In the early 90s, Elena came to conquer Moscow and appeared in Yuri Nikolaev's popular TV contest "Morning Star". The jury included Sergei Mavrodi, who was smitten on the spot by the beauty and talent of the young Zaporizhian woman. The founder of the financial pyramid at that time was engaged in the selection of photo models for MMM advertising and invited Lena to take part in the filming. Soon Pavlyuchenko becomes the face of the company and the bride of the rich Mavrodi. Especially for his beloved, the millionaire organized international beauty contests, in which she became the winner. Having won many titles, Lena headed the MMM-models modeling agency founded by Sergey.
Family Life
According to the recollections of Pavlyuchenko herself, they were in no hurry to register relations with Mavrodi and got married only in October 1993, when he began to have serious problems with the law. However, even after the registration of marriage, they did not much resemble ordinary spouses. Sergei Mavrodi lived separately from his young wife and met her from time to time. In one of his interviews, he said that he had no idea howlive with a woman in the same apartment.
Shortly after the wedding, the newly minted Mrs. Mavrodi began to manage one of the MMM departments, receiving a huge salary for her work. But that was not her main mission. When Sergey, hiding from criminal responsibility, led the life of a recluse, Elena provided him with a connection with all the necessary people and followed the flow of money. Rumor has it that it was she who handed over her husband to law enforcement agencies in exchange for their promise to close their eyes to the sins that followed her. And they were connected not only with the activities of the wife of the "financial genius" in MMM.
Baby kidnapping case
In March 2001, 32-year-old Elena Pavlyuchenko-Mavrodi was detained in the capital on suspicion of kidnapping a newborn child from the Research Institute of Pediatrics, who was being treated there. A one and a half month old baby was taken out of the building by an employee of the clinic and handed over to two ladies who were in a Nissan parked nearby. As it turned out later, one of the women in the car was Mavrodi's wife Elena, and the other was her 38-year-old friend in the modeling business. It was for the latter that the baby was intended.
The employees of the research institute suspected that they were preparing to kidnap a baby, so they were on the alert. Noticing how the attending physician took her little patient out into the street without permission and handed him over to unknown women, they raised the alarm. Soon the Nissan was stopped, and its passengers were taken to the police station. It turned out that the babyPavlyuchenko's barren girlfriend planned to illegally adopt. Elena, who had connections at the research institute, volunteered to help her and organized the entire operation. However, during the investigation, Elena's friend changed her testimony and stated that she took the baby out of the research institute for only a few hours in order to show her lover and force him to marry her. The suspects so confused the investigation that as a result they were not charged with anything, and the criminal case was closed due to lack of evidence.
Running for the State Duma
The child kidnapping scandal is not the only dark spot in the biography of the wife of the creator of MMM. In the second half of the 90s, Elena Pavlyuchenko tried to make a political career. Mavrodi's wife ran for the State Duma 3 times, but twice her candidacy was withdrawn on the eve of voting due to vote bribery, and the last time she failed to get the required number of votes.
Life after divorce
Marriage of Elena Pavlyuchenko with Mavrodi lasted until 2005. Having divorced her husband, she changed her name and appearance and disappeared from the field of view of the media. According to people who know Sergei, his ex-wife and her mother live today in their own house in the suburbs. She is raising her daughter, whose father is Mavrodi, and does not give interviews.
Younger sister and her connections with Mavrodi
If Elena was Sergei's wife, then her own sister Oksana Pavlyuchenko was his companion in creating financial scams. Arriving in Moscow after her sister, the girl graduatedPlekhanov Institute, having received the speci alty of a tax inspector. All the time while Oksana studied in the capital, she lived at the expense of her sister's husband. In the late 90s, together with Mavrodi, an enterprising girl organized a virtual exchange on the Internet, to which visitors transferred substantial amounts.
After existing for some time, the exchange disappeared without a trace. In 2000, Oksana and Sergey were put on the wanted list by Interpol, but after the US court decided that the scam created by the scammers was an ordinary computer game in which there could be losers and winners, the case was closed. Having escaped the well-deserved punishment, Pavlyuchenko Jr. got married and stayed in Moscow. She is not hiding from anyone, but, like her older sister Elena, she categorically refuses to communicate with the media.
