Divorced from the Victoria’s Secret model and lives with Miss World: The personal life of the Russian oligarch who quarreled with Jolie and Pitt 07/07/2023, 07:05

Angelina Jolie sold her share in the family winery Chateau Miraval in France in 2021. Brad Pitt was extremely unhappy that the ex-wife got rid of the family business without agreeing with him on the matter.

Russian vodka drinker Yuri Shefler became a new shareholder of the Hollywood acting company. His appearance sparked a new conflict between Angelina and Brad, as well as a series of lawsuits and mutual recriminations. Pitt suspects the new partner is helping Jolie take over the business.

One of the richest businessmen in Russia is 55 years old. Yuri was born in the city of Orel in the family of Alexei Jurasov. However, the billionaire changed his name twice and eventually became known as Yuriy Anatolyevich Shabalin and Yuriy Viktorovich Shefler. The owner of part of the shares of Jolie and Pitt served in the Soviet army and in 1995 graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Russian University of Economics. GV Plekhanov.

In the 1990s, Shefler successfully developed a restaurant and retail business. Yuri was the chairman of the board of Vnukovo Airlines for two years, and in 1997 he moved to Soyuzplodoimport, which produces vodka. Over time, he took over the company and removed Yevgeny Sorochkin, who privatized the company, bringing the alcoholic beverage brands under the control of his Dutch-registered company. Shefler moved to Latvia from where he managed the store for the first time. Then Yuri went to the United Kingdom, where he obtained a British passport and Israeli citizenship.

Yuri has a hunting estate in Scotland, the value of which is 32 million dollars (2.8 billion rubles). The businessman also owns houses in Surrey, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and Jurmala. Shefler bought Serene, one of the largest and most expensive superyachts in the world. Yuri rented it to Bill Gates for $5 million (451 million rubles) a week.

Shefler was married twice. In his first marriage with Elena Litueva, he had a son, Alexei, who is now 22 years old. The second wife of Yuri was the former “angel” of Victoria’s Secret Tatyana Kovylina. The couple registered their relationship after 12 years of marriage, the birth of three children. In 2021, Shefler divorced Tatyana before the birth of their son, who became their fourth child together.

Now Yuri is happy with the owner of the titles “Miss Russia-2007” and “Miss World-2008” Ksenia Sukhinova. The beloved businessman had a son, Artem, last August. The titular beauty with the child lives in France according to the Daily Mail.

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