Inside cult mannequin joined after visiting Epstein’s ‘pedo island’
- Kazakh-Russian mannequin Ruslana Korshunova jumped to her demise in NYC in 2008
- Six months earlier she was launched to a cult by a boyfriend in Moscow
- Her good friend and fellow mannequin and cult member killed herself a yr later
The final individual Kazakh-Russian mannequin Ruslana Korshunova known as earlier than she leaped to her demise from her Manhattan house wasn’t her household, greatest good friend, and even her boyfriend.
Minutes earlier than her suicide on June 28, 2008, the 20-year-old known as her ‘life coach’ who months earlier launched her to shadowy cult Rose of the World.
Vladimir Vorobeyv, who was 22 on the time, met Korshunova at a celebration in Moscow in December 2007 and commenced a three-month romance.
Korshunova was at a crossroads, worn out by her frenetic life as a high mannequin that had her at a shoot in the future, and partying with billionaires the following.
One of these wealthy males was convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who flew her on his ‘Lolita Express’ to his non-public Caribbean island in June 2006, newly launched paperwork revealed on Thursday.
Ruslana Korshunova is seen in September 2007, modeling for Cynthia Rowe. She jumped to her demise on June 28, 2008, months after becoming a member of a cult named Rose of the World
Rose of the World is run by flashy Russian millionaire Vladislav Novgorodtsev, who reveals off his wealth and unique holidays on-line. He and his spouse Tatiana pose in a Ferrari in an image mentioned to be taken in Monaco.
Knowing she was despondent, Vorobeyv launched her to Rose of the World simply weeks after they met, initially signing up for a three-day $900 course.
Rose of the World is run by flashy Russian millionaire Vladislav Novgorodtsev, who reveals off his wealth and unique holidays on-line.
Korshunova saved going for 3 months, alongside together with her good friend, fellow mannequin Anastasia Drozdova, who additionally jumped to her demise in 2009.
By the top of March she returned to New York searching for new modelling work however was making more and more regarding posts on a Russian social media web site.
The final day of her life started with a 10am stroll subsequent door to purchase fruit, then she talked to her boyfriend Mark Kaminsky, then 32, about 12pm.
They made plans to bought to a good friend’s birthday celebration that evening, earlier than logging again in to the social media web site at 12.19pm.
Soon after she known as Vorobeyv, telling him: ‘I’m going to exit. I’ve mates coming by’.
‘She mentioned she was feeling unwell, that she didn’t wish to speak to anyone,’ he mentioned.
‘She was not in a proper temper. Before this, she usually complained about her dangerous temper.’
Vorobeyv mentioned simply two days earlier she instructed him: ‘Even if I’m not right here any extra, the entire world will discuss me’.
Minutes earlier than she jumped to her demise, Korshunova tried calling Vorobeyv a second time, however he was consuming at a bar and instructed her to name again later.
The Russian mannequin reduce via building mesh and jumped to her demise from the constructing in Manhattan’s monetary district in 2008
Korshunova jumped from an workplace constructing subsequent to her house – pictured above is her coated physique in Manhattan’s Financial District
Ruslana Korshunova at Bill Blass’ spring 2008 presentation on the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum
The Rose Of The World cult, often called Roza Mira, is a company based mostly in Moscow that grew out of the works of Russian mystic Daniil Andreev.
The mystical author aimed to unify ideas of the world’s main religions but in addition believed in reincarnation and karma.
The cult grew out of a gaggle often called Lifespring within the US within the Nineteen Eighties. The group went bankrupt after former members sued for psychological well being injury.
‘Our seminars will train you learn how to notice your targets and obtain materials wealth,’ its web site acknowledged on the time of Korshunova’s demise.
Author Peter Pomerantsev, who studied the cult, instructed the Daily News that the group goals to humiliate members, blaming them for his or her issues. One rape sufferer was instructed it was her fault.
Pomerantsev described in a chunk for Newsweek how he infiltrated the cult and noticed its operations after Korshunova’s demise.
‘When you enter the Rose, there’s darkness and shouting, every thing is designed to stun the aware thoughts, droop essential thought,’ he wrote.
‘Then the ‘life coach’ emerges. He talks so quick you possibly can’t assist however be confused, the microphone set at a stage your head begins hurting.
‘In the approaching days you’ll expertise discomfort. Fear. But that is good. This is the interior barrier you must break via.
Korshunova is seen on the catwalk in September 2005 throughout New York Fashion Week, strolling for vogue label Naum
Korshunova as a toddler behind the wheel of her household’s automobile in Kazakhstan
Korshunova as a toddler within the late Nineteen Eighties together with her doll at dwelling in Kazakhstan
‘There are 40 individuals within the corridor, who’re requested to admit their worst experiences. Tales of rape, abusive dad and mom.’
Pomerantsev discovered Korshunova was probably the most enthusiastic speaker, opening up about her father’s demise and her failed romances – she ‘cried publicly, laughed violently’.
‘Three days of shouting, recalling repressed recollections, meditation adopted by dancing, tears adopted by ecstasy. Every intense emotion you have ever had, stuffed into three life-changing days,’ he wrote.
‘The fashions signed up for extra coaching, every one just a little dearer than the final, every one just a little extra intense.’
Another cult devotee who knew Korshunova mentioned the mannequin instructed them ‘she tried suicide 5 instances in numerous methods’.
‘She’s tried it since she was 15, 16 years previous. It was a loneliness that nobody understood,’ they mentioned.
Friends additionally seen modifications about her habits and that of Drozdova within the months they had been a part of Rose of the World, and famous they each misplaced weight.
‘Ruslana grew to become aggressive, for the primary time ever swore and cursed,’ Pomerantsev wrote.
‘Anastasia would begin rows, then burst into tears. She missed castings, grew to become reclusive.’
Candid picture of Korshunova with mates as she rose to stardom as a mannequin within the West
Korshunova poses with a good friend in a photograph from the final years of her life
Korshunova’s dad and mom pictured collectively in the midst of this picture. Her father died when she was younger and her mom Valentina Kutenkov by no means believed she killed herself
Pomerantsev wrote that he was within the room when a ‘life coach’ talked about Korshunova’s demise.
‘Ruslana was (a) typical sufferer,’ he mentioned.
When a scholar requested him if he did not really feel dangerous {that a} scholar of his had died, he callously responded: ‘Sometimes it is higher to commit suicide than to not change.’
Anna Barsukova, 20, a mannequin who was mates with Korshunova for 3 years, mentioned cult-like ‘self-help’ teams had been standard amongst younger fashions.
‘One of my mates went there too, however responded with concern. They do coaching about creating your persona,’ she mentioned.
Korshunova’s seduction to the cult started after a collection of failed relationships with rich males whom she thought beloved her, however shortly discarded her.
Heartbreak prompted weight reduction and unpredictable habits that affected her work, and jobs started to dry up.
Meeting Vorobeyv in Moscow was a welcome break, their first date ending with them operating round kissing within the pouring rain.
‘Maybe she felt one thing in the direction of me, we noticed numerous one another. I supported her, her life was not easy,’ he mentioned.
But as with a lot of Korshunova’s relationships, there was a catch – Vorobeyv had a pregnant girlfriend, whom he married between the mannequin leaving and her demise.
‘She knew that I used to be married and that my spouse was pregnant then. I instructed Ruslana that I’d by no means depart my spouse and that she may anticipate solely assist from me,’ he mentioned.
Vladislav Novgorodtsev in a store in Geneva. He posted ‘I like this model.’ Prices begin round $12,000 and go as much as above $100,000 for jewel-encrusted watches
Cult chief Vladislav Novgorodtseva in Venice to rejoice her birthday
Korshunova paid 1000’s of {dollars} to attend Rose of the World programs on the Roza Mira Training Centre in Moscow, together with her lover and Drozdova.
Whatever ‘self assist’ it gave her did not translate to her writing on-line, that had been bleak and stuffed with heartache.
‘It hurts if somebody took part of me, mercilessly tore it out, stomped throughout it…threw it out,’ she wrote on January 1, 2008.
Another quickly after becoming a member of the cult learn: ‘If I’m for others, then who’s for me? And if I’m for myself, then what am I for?’
On February 18, the cult gave the impression to be worming its method into her thoughts: ‘there’s dysfunction! I haven’t got a house. I would like an boss for there to be order’.
Perhaps the clearest signal of the impact the cult was having on her was throughout a flurry of posts on March 18 and 19.
‘My personal fault … that I allowed in… my very own fault… that i fell in love … my very own fault that i did not permit to spoil me … my very own fault … that i allowed my coronary heart to be damaged …my very own fault,’ she wrote.
Another learn: i’m so misplaced.. will i ever discover myself?..
Then on April 6: ‘I do not know now if it was actual love.. however I do know for positive..it exists someplace.. perhaps close by.. or perhaps.’
People near Korshunova can not seem to agree on how nicely her profession faired when she returned to New York.
Korshunova (second from proper) with a earlier boyfriend, Artem Perchenok. They had cut up earlier than her demise.
Artem Perchenok, who was 24 when she died, dated Korshunova the yr earlier than her demise till they broke up in autumn 2007
Some mentioned she was consistently busy, however others described her as being broke and desperately wanting out of the modelling enterprise.
‘I suppose, abruptly, she was not a brand new lady. She was depressed about that. She’d made her cash and he or she wished to get out of the modeling enterprise badly,’ one good friend instructed the NYDN.
Korshunova had just lately returned from Paris and was scheduled to be in Texas the day after her demise, then rejoice her twenty first birthday together with her boyfriend and buddies three days after that.
She had a photoshoot on a roof in Midtown Manhattan the day earlier than demise.
Artem Perchenok, who was 24 when she died, dated Korshunova the yr earlier than her demise till they broke up in autumn 2007.
They stayed shut mates and noticed one another the day earlier than she jumped to her demise, hanging out and watching Ghost at his dad and mom’ dwelling in Queens.
He dropped her dwelling at 4am and little over 10 hours later she was lifeless. ‘I really feel that she got here to say goodbye,’ he mentioned.
Perchenok recalled that she instructed him that she instructed her supervisor she did not know what to do together with her life, and at any time when a job went badly she would ‘take it out on herself’.
But he mentioned she was enthusiastic about her new boyfriend, luxurious automobile seller Kaminsky, confiding: ‘This individual understands me.’
The couple in Monaco at time of the Grand Prix
Cult chief’s spouse Tatiana poses in entrance of a Bugatti automobile in Monte Carlo
Rose of the World’s chief, Novgorodtsev, additionally claimed to know Korshunova nicely.
‘I noticed her and heard her tales, tales that nobody else has heard,’ he instructed the Daily News.
‘The most vital factor about her and her inside world was that she was lonely. There was nobody who was actually expensive to her, apart from her mom.’
Novgorodtsev blamed her unhappiness not on his group, however on her work starting to dry up, and her failed romance with Vorobeyv.
‘She had a romance in Moscow, however nothing may occur as a result of the younger man was married,’ he mentioned of Vorobeyv.
‘She was asking for cash. Ten-thousand rubles (about $400) would save her. That was 10 days earlier than she dedicated suicide.’
Novgorodtsev later claimed, in 2011 that the deaths of Korshunova and Drozdova compelled him to close down Rose of the World.
‘I needed to shut down my enterprise as a result of all of the shoppers deserted me,’ he instructed Russian newspaper Izvestia.
‘And why did it occur? We had been doing good issues and a few supermodels dedicated suicide due to their troubled lifestyle.’
Korshunova’s tragic posts
January 1, 2008: It hurts if somebody took part of me, mercilessly tore it out, stomped throughout it…threw it out.
January 30: If I’m for others, then who’s for me? And if I’m for myself, then what am I for?
February 18: there’s dysfunction! i don’t have a house. I would like an boss for there to be order
March 6: A woman as soon as requested a man, does he assume she is cute. He mentioned no. She requested, would he wish to be together with her ceaselessly, and he mentioned no. Then she requested him, if i left, would you cry and his reply was no. She heard sufficient. She rotated, to depart, tears operating down her face. The man took her hand and mentioned, “You will not be cute, you’re lovely. I don’t wish to be with you ceaselessly, I HAVE to. And I’d not cry, in the event you left, I’d die.
March 6: Why trample on my love
March 7: individuals cease combating..angels are crying…we will be higher!..love is the reply!!
March 7: my dream is to fly..oh my rainbaw is just too excessive..
March 11: I do know what’s it..I do know why my different relationship didn’t work out..cos i’m unpredictable…why r u afraid of it..?
March 11: don’t hate me, I’m asking you, I really feel it with all my coronary heart, that we’re shut to one another like nobody else on this earth..don’t be silent, i’m asking you..don’t be silent..My soul is lacking you … return, flip round, smile…my expensive, shiny, little solar..i can’t breath with out you, I take into consideration you each minute..
March 11: i wonna be with u!solely u!i wonna share my life my mattress with u!solely u!i wonna love u!solely u!!!
March 18: My personal fault … that I allowed in… my very own fault… that i fell in love … my very own fault that i didn’t permit to spoil me … my very own fault … that i allowed my coronary heart to be damaged …my very own fault..
March 18: What’s extra vital, to like or be beloved? I can’t appear to determine this query for myself. Overall, requited, actual love is an enormous rarity.
If you construct you relations solely on that actual requited love, you possibly can sit via life in loneliness. Even the strongest love can disappear and not using a hint after a yr, after which what? Reason says that it’s higher to be beloved, however in life, we love extra usually than we’re beloved. To love, particularly with out return, may be very onerous, painful and takes away from the soul’s energy.
March 18: Why, in the end, love will die. What is even worst is that if it can finish earlier for my accomplice than for me. It actually hurts when somebody stops loving you however you proceed to like.
March 18: life may be very fragile, and its circulate can simply be ruined.
March 18: in the event you don’t get misplaced, there’s a probability chances are you’ll by no means be discovered..
March 19: boys.. why are you so foolish?
March 19: i’m so misplaced. .will i ever discover myself?..
March 31: I feel that girls can consistently can love males, when they’re actual. When you say give me and obtain. After that, you give in your self.
P.S. Give in which means your soul. Because he’s so robust, he can do every thing.
April 6: I don’t know now if it was actual love..however I do know for positive..it exists someplace..perhaps close by..or perhaps..
Another high-ranking cult member dismissed duty in equally callous vogue, and insisted Korshunova coulon’t have killed herself.
“Ruslana had what we call a ‘rollback.’ She felt a little strange. You’d find her wandering round town, unsure what she was doing there,’ they said.
‘Maybe she’d cry at night. But she couldn’t have killed herself. We cured her of any problems she might have.
‘And Anastasia? She was messed up already. We tried to help her, we really tried. But she refused transformation. Blame modeling, maybe drugs, not us.’
Despite claiming the cult was over, Novgorodtsev appeared to be running a similar organization as soon as 2014.
In the prestigious Courchevel resort in the French Alps
A MailOnline investigation in Russia found the wealthy Siberian-born Novgorodtsev, 44, still heads an organisation apparently run on the same lines as Rose of the World, though it does not now use this name, and that he enjoys a luxury lifestyle.
It is called Novgorodtsev Education, a company which was also the front for Rose of the World.
Novgorodtsev’s training company offers courses for stressed-out Russians, for around $700 for a three day session.
Novgorodtsev describes himself as ‘a master in understand the motives of human behaviour’.
‘Thousands of people became our clients – there are famous bankers among them, owners of publishing houses, showmen,’ he boasted.
With branches in Moscow, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, he claimed: ‘I was searching for the secrets of famous people.’
His aim is to show people ‘a different way of thinking’.
Married with two children, he claims to have lived previously in the US, and pictures show him globetrotting on five-star vacations.
His social media showed him in Monaco and the Maldives, taking snow breaks in Courchevel and Switzerland, as well as time off in Ibiza and Venice.
A Formula One fan, he and his wife Tatiana are shown on his social media sites posing beside a yacht in St Tropez and driving a rented Ferrari around France.
Novgorodtsev on the Novgorodtsev Education company website. The name was previously used as a cover for the cult, which he claimed had been closed
Virginia Roberts-Giuffre was asked by her lawyer whether she knew Korshuova by Brad Edwards, a Florida-based attorney, to Roberts-Giuffre in a May 2011 email unsealed on Thursday night.
Roberts-Giuffre was asked by Edwards, who served as her PR, about the model, who he said had enjoyed a trip to a private island with a wealthy male admirer.
In June 2006, aged 18, she had flown from New York with Epstein and other friends on his Boeing 727, dubbed ‘Lolita Express’, to his private island in the US Virgin Islands, Little St James.
It is unclear what happened to her once she was there, but Epstein was known to fly girls and young women to his compound, where they’d be sexually exploited by himself and other men.
‘I think it’s a long shot you would recognize her, but read the article I attached and then look at the pictures and see if you recognize her,’ Edwards wrote. ‘I will call you tomorrow.’
Edwards enclosed a link to a Newsweek report on the model’s death.
Epstein is pictured on the jet getting a foot massage from Ghislaine Maxwell with French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel on the ‘Lolita Express’
Korshunova’s name is circled on the manifest. She was on board with JE (Epstein); IZ (his bodyguard Igor Zinoviev, a former UFC fighter); LC (Lance Calloway, who worked as Epstein’s chef on the island); SK (Epstein’s long-time assistant Sarah Kellen) and Stephanie Tidwell
Roberts-Giuffre replied: ‘I am so sorry to hear the news of Ruslana, and my condolences are with her family and friends.
‘I can say that I have never had any meetings with her, sorry not to be of any help there.’
The exchange was revealed on Thursday, with the unsealing of a trove of documents from Roberts-Giuffre’s 2015 defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s right-hand woman.
The documents were unsealed this week after the Manhattan judge ruled there was no longer any justification for keeping the files secret.
Epstein died in August 2019 in jail awaiting trial, and Maxwell is now in prison, serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
