Russian tycoon, 67, who was named within the Epstein recordsdata and known as Ghislaine Maxwell his ‘soulmate’ is discovered lifeless
A colourful Russian tycoon mentioned in the Epstein files who called Ghislaine Maxwell a ‘soulmate’ was found dead with gunshot wounds in an elite Moscow residential complex.
Former senator Umar Dzhabrailov, 67, who ran against Putin in the 2000 presidential election, finishing last, was found in a pool of blood at the Vesper Tverskaya residential complex on Tverskaya Street in central Moscow.
The flamboyant magnate had a ‘friendship’ with Naomi Campbell, and was the ‘model’ for a Chechen gangster in Frederick Forsyth’s novel, Icon.
The controversial businessman – who once dated Vladimir Putin‘s ‘goddaughter’, TV star and former Playboy model Ksenia Sobchak – was rushed to hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, and died without regaining consciousness.
Police are probing the cause of his death with the ‘preliminary conclusion’ that he took his own life. His Luger pistol was discovered at the scene.
No suicide note was found, said law enforcement sources.
His daughter Alvina Dzhabrailova, 32, has disputed that his sudden death was a suicide, claiming in an emotional video that ‘he was killed because he’s linked to the Epstein files’ and was ‘silenced’.
She said she had spoken to him in recent days, and asserted ‘he didn’t kill himself’, but admitted she was ’emotional’ and that she ‘didn’t really like him very much’.
Colourful tycoon and self professed gangster Umar Dzhabrailov, 67, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in Moscow. He was mentioned in the Epstein files and had run against Putin in the 2000 Russian presidential election, finishing last
The businessman’s daughter Alvina Dzhabrailova, 32, said that ‘he was killed because he’s linked to the Epstein files’ and was ‘silenced’ in an emotional video
Dzhabrailov had recently commented on his concern for Russians stuck in the Middle East due to US military action, and spoke of his enjoyment about sharing his experiences with young people.
An ethnic Chechen, Dzhabrailov who called himself a ‘gangster’ was known for always carrying a gun.
There were reports of business problems due to the war, with his company bank accounts frozen ten days before his death.
He was also mentioned in the Epstein files.
‘I knew Epstein. I was introduced to him by Ghislaine Maxwell, a soulmate of mine,’ he said.
‘But I never could have imagined that they were partners, that she was involved in finding those girls who are now all over the media.
‘And then one day, he was found with a noose around his neck….
‘I regret that Ghislaine, the most charming woman, got a life sentence.’
It is not immediately known how he got to know Maxwell.
He said: ‘What would I [tell] young men?
‘You must respect the woman in every girl. You must be gentlemen, cavaliers, knights. We must love our women, respect them.
Dzhabrailov said that Ghislaine Maxwell was his ‘soulmate’ and expressed ‘regret’ at her being handed a life sentence for child sex trafficking
‘If they failed to respect him, well, they’re… worthless. It’s very important for a girl to know that she’s safe.
‘I’m a gentleman, I’m a cavalier, I’m a knight.
‘I am a sophisticated, subtle connoisseur and expert on women’s hearts and natures. I am a gangster.’
He was fined £5,800 nine years ago after he shot a Yarygin pistol in the air at the Four Seasons Hotel, yards from the Kremlin.
He admitted to being quizzed ‘a hundred times’ by Russian secret services over the 1996 shooting of his American business partner, Paul Tatum, in a Moscow subway.
The contract killing was one of the most controversial murders of the wild and lawless 1990s in Moscow following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He always denied having anything to do with the killing.
Dzhabrailov and Tatum jointly ran the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel in Moscow.
In the wake of the shooting, he was banned from travelling to the US but he went on to represent his native region Chechnya in the Russian parliament.
Separately, Dzhabrailov was also linked to German supermodel Claudia Schiffer.
Ms Sobchak, 44, daughter of Putin’s political mentor Anatoly Sobchak, said today that Dzhabrailov was ‘a handsome man, a man who could recite poems by Khayyam or Brodsky to me by heart. Well-educated, gallant….
‘It was a fantastic time, a fantastic love affair. My first private jet, meeting world-class celebrities, Dolce Vita…
‘At a time when everyone was wearing Chanel, he was the first to introduce me to Margiela and Helmut Lang boutiques.’
Reports said he had recovered after an ‘attempted suicide’ six years ago.
