“They leave millions in the casino”: Alla Pugacheva was united with her husband by a passion for gambling 20.06.2023, 13:35

The prima donna is known in the immediate vicinity as a player with great experience at the same time. Alla Borisovna was always favored by the public and earned good money, so she could afford to spend a round sum in the casino without unnecessary regrets. Maxim Galkin was also influenced by this hobby of hers. (included in the list of persons acting as a foreign agent). They started dating in 2001, started living together in 2005 and got married in 2011.

Emil Muzaffarov worked for many years in elite Moscow casinos and watched the star spouses until 2009, when gambling was not banned in Russia, except for specially designated areas. Now the man realizes himself as a bookmaker and sports analyst, but he remembers the turbulent “zero” very well.

“I worked as a manager in the elite casino A-club on Arbat. Our entry cost $2,000, but you couldn’t get in “just like that” – the strictest face control. Alla Borisovna Pugacheva and Maxim Galkin were clients of our casino, they got together. Many then had the impression that Alla Borisovna and Maxim agreed on the basis of this excitement, the game. In the evening, they went together to the elite casinos. Or to us, they also played all the time in the closed club HO in Shangri La, sometimes in the Europa casino,” said Emil.

Among the VIP guests was the People’s Artist of the USSR, as well as her young companion. There were special conditions for clients of this level – they were assigned personal gaming machines that were available only to them and around the clock. According to Muzaffar, the “Iceberg” singer even gave the “one-armed bandits” their names because he believed it would bring good luck.

Pugacheva and Galkin were not financially constrained. “They always played on credit – VIP guests, they got unlimited credit. In elite casinos, gambling was serious – losses were counted in such amounts as a million dollars. As soon as I was at the cash register, when they brought the money from Pugachev and Maxim to return it, they did not personally carry the money, ”the KP source quotes.

According to Emil, Pugacheva and Galkin behaved with restraint, even though they had total bad luck in the game – they came quietly and left just as quietly, never celebrating wins and never quarreling over losses. The former croupier is sure that the couple did not stop playing after leaving Russia. According to him, Alla Borisovna and Maxim visit casinos in Latvia and Israel, where they spend most of their time. “I think they play abroad. They are united by gambling, addiction to gambling,” Muzaffarov added.

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