Asians , Russians And The Murder That Shook Things Up
The first meeting with Bani was a blur. There were so many names and faces and books and records and stories and royal families and this and that it was hard to keep up. When I finally had enough and needed some booze in a very desperate way, we made plans to meet the next evening. Late. He had some meetings and originally thought we would only be meeting an hour or two. Instead it was five and we had not even reached the tip of the iceberg. Well, maybe the tip.
I went home and tried to process it. Even though I have only given you five or six blinds to this point, I was probably given 100 names those first few hours. I’m trying to go chronologically for you, but he was tossing out names from different decades and then I would ask a question about a person and it would send him on a tangent.
One of those tangents started with me asking him why to that point at least I was not seeing or hearing any Asian women on the list. It was just a toss away question but it led to one of those most interesting stories he told me during any of our meetings. Apparently there is a certain cache in this world in acquiring English speaking women. Basically Australia, the UK, the US and some parts of Western Europe. They want to have seen the woman on television or the movies. They honestly don’t care if the woman is on some British reality program like Made in Chelsea or in Transformers. They want someone they know their friends know and can recognize. Yeah, who knew reality television was big over there. It actually isn’t. What is big though are tabloids and gossip websites. Most of those are in English and cover the shows and movies of the aforementioned countries.
Asians are not generally covered in the news and tabloids they read or discuss. Further, he said that most of the domestic workforce in the households are from Asian countries or India so there is nothing special about being seen or having sex with an Asian.
This led me to ask a follow-up question. I know, I know, entertainment reporters asking a follow-up question would be a nice treat wouldn’t it? Asking any kind of real question would be good. I wasn’t going to get all Kneepaddy on them. I asked if there were any other groups of people they didn’t like dealing with and he said Russians. Was this a mafia thing? Some other reason?
Bani leaned back in the chair in which he was seated and took out a cigarette. Apparently the whole no smoking thing in the suite didn’t really bother him and I was pretty sure he could afford the extra cleaning fee. Even Ravi seemed to move a little from his position of attention. I’m pretty sure he was able to sleep standing up. I did see him sit a few times. Once when I was at a bar with Bani, we sat at a table and Ravi sat at a bar stool .
“It happened about fifteen years ago,” Bani began. “There was a woman (YD)that every person wanted and they all were trying their hardest and doing everything in their power to make it happen. People were literally throwing money to be the first to say they had been with her.”
Well, finally one of the guys manages a break through. He had followed her to a couple of events where she had been working and sent over some gifts. One, a bracelet she still wears sometimes that cost in excess of a million dollars. So, the two have some dinner and they make plans to meet in Paris in April which was a few weeks away.
They meet in Paris and have a great time. They spend two or three nights together and they are spotted in a couple of different places together and this guy is a hero back home. He would have lived off that praise for a long time. The only problem is, a few weeks after their nights together he is killed in a Berlin hotel room. The killers make it very clear why they killed him. It was because of this woman he had been with.
Apparently there were several men in Russia who wanted to be with her. The oligarchs had tried and failed, but there were two men who at one point in time were actually A listers (YE, YF) in their own little niche here in the US. Both of them were fighting for her. When one would go out with her the other would go crazy and it was not uncommon for some collateral damage. A friend of one or the other would get beat up. No one had ever been killed. Apparently at the time YD hooked up with the man, she was in a relationship with YE. He actually has a significant other (YG) now who is arguably more famous than YD, at least here in the US. As time goes by she is especially more likely to stay more famous just because she still has a career. Anyway, back to the story. YE goes nuts when he hears about this. Both YE and YF are paying protection money to the mafia which comes directly out of their pay. The mafia members were listed as “Managers.” So, YE complains that he wants something done for all of this money he is paying and a couple of guys are sent to find the guy and they kill him. When he is out of the way, YE tells YD what he has done and proposes to her. She accepts.
At this point in the story, Bani does not really know what happened to YD and YE and YF. If you figure out who they are, you can fill in those blanks.
Meanwhile, back home in the UAE, something has to be done. There has to be some kind of payback. There was and there is. For the past fifteen years on average about once every two years a Russian “businessman” is killed who has ties back to the UAE and shortly after that someone with ties to the UAE is killed by the Russians. Those killings usually happen in London. All of this over one woman.
How do these women get paid? Wire transfers? Cash? This is a lot of money we are talking about here.
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Could YE and YF be The google guy and Naomi's dude the billionaire?
ReplyDeleteScratch that since this occurred about 15 years ago.
ReplyDeleteYD=St. Angie ?? Outside shot at Katie Holmes
ReplyDeleteFunny sandy I thought paltrow for first and then brad/angle too?
ReplyDeleteFifteen years ago Angie would have to have been one of the most desirable women in the entire world.
ReplyDeleteJust to throw another wild guess out there: Natalie Portman?
ReplyDeleteBritney?
ReplyDelete15 years ago was 2000 so racking my brain trying to think of A-listers from that time period-names like Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts (maybe a long shot on JR but again trying to think within confines of time frame) or maybe Heidi Klum/Anna Nicole Smith representing the supermodel brigade.
ReplyDeleteDear Lord, I am beyond hooked on this!
Everyone was talking about Britney's virginity around that time....
ReplyDeleteThe problem is The Enties don't tell us if YD is a model, actress, sports figure. Also he states that Bani doesn't know what happened to YD which couldn't be any of our guesses since all those women are still in the tabloids.
ReplyDeleteAnna Kournikova and those hockey players.
ReplyDeleteSo . . . the year is 2000.
ReplyDeleteYE and YF were A listers in the U.S. in a niche market.
YD was a famous and desirable in 2000, but no longer has a career. She was once married to YE.
YE is now with (but not necessarily married to) a woman who today is more famous than YD.
She doesn't even get an alphabet rating - just a woman "that every person wanted"
ReplyDeleteIt mentions she was working the events, not just attending.
I wonder if it's a news anchor or sports anchor who's since fallen off the map.
Or maybe she's no longer a woman.
ReplyDelete..dun Dun DUN...
I like this guess
ReplyDeletemegan fox for the transformers reference!
ReplyDeleteYD=Milla Jovovich (?)
ReplyDeleteAnna Kournikova/Sergei Fedorov/Pavel Bure (married to a russian model Alina Khasanova, I have never heard of her but maybe she is famous?) ?
ReplyDeleteI wrote about these Russian Businessmen in an earlier Blind(tricia I think it was directed to you b/c you mentioned that you liked the Show "Ladies Of London" & Noelle's boyfriend, Scot Young ,the Russian Tycoon "Fell To His Death" & I said that he was just the latest of at least NINE that i know of anyway,who have been getting killed off (or meeting untimely demises via poisoning,suicide,etc) They ALL belong(ed) to this private exclusive london club.I'm pretty sure it's same Club that I went to pretty often while dating a particular guy when I lived in London.i'm going to look for my (very)old Club card--Strangest 'Place' i ever experienced-& I've been to ALOT.
ReplyDeleteAfter Kournikova and Federov divorced, he dated Tara Reid for a few years, but it looks like that was over by 2005. The blind reads as though the man is CURRENTLY in a relationship with someone more famous than the ex-wife . . . but Mr. Google isn't coming up with anything for him.
ReplyDeleteyou're right! I read it wrong, I thought it was someone more famous than YE, but it's YD. So it can't be Anna K then.
ReplyDeleteI still think Anna Kournikova is YD--the timing The Australian Open at end of January '99 she & Martina Hingis were called "the Spice Girls' of doubles.. She was like the #1 Downloaded girl in the world .Also the reference to her present of a bracelet is 'a TENNIS bracelet' all diamonds easily worth over a million $$
ReplyDeletethe guy is murdered in Berlin & she goes and secretly marries YE (Sergei Federov)
ReplyDeleteTara Reid IS arguably more famous,"at least in the US" & still has a career & really popular now w/the Sharknado Franchise.... i dunno who Sergei's with now but I DO know he's in Florida this month.
ReplyDeleteI'm throwing Beyonce into the hat. She has a pair of $1.8 million earrings that have been in the news...
ReplyDeleteWho would Sergei Federov be with now though who would be more famous than Anna?
ReplyDeleteI googled Scot Young, based on back again's comment above, which led to this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2884964/Scot-Young-death-Tycoon-member-secretive-dining-club.html - and a reference to "controversial Russian OLIGARCH Boris Berezovsky"
ReplyDeleteHe's not with her anymore though, the blind makes it seems like it's someone who he is with now, but google doesn't bring up anything.
ReplyDeleteI agree!
ReplyDeleteYD= Anna K
YE= Sergej F
YF=Pavel B
But it sounds like YE has a SO now (2014, 2015) that is more famous than YD. I don't know..
@back again
ReplyDeleteBeyonce in 2000 is not Beyonce today.
ReplyDeletewww.skinnyvscurvy.com/beyonce/step-time-beyonce-2000-2001.html
Cindy Crawford as the celebrity with richard gere being one of those guys
ReplyDeleteMaxim's Top 5, 2000
ReplyDelete1. Estella Warren
2. Mena Suvari
3. Kim Smith (?)
4. XTina
5. Shannon Elizabeth
1999 FHM Top 20 Sexiest Women in the World
ReplyDelete1.Sarah Michelle Gellar
2.Louise Redknapp
3.Kelly Brook
4.Catherine Zeta-Jones
5.Jenny McCarthy
6.Jennifer Aniston
7.Cameron Diaz
8.Gail Porter
9.Cat Deeley
10.Melanie Sykes
11.Denise Van Outen
12.Caprice Bourret
13.Donna Air
14.Anna Kournikova
15.Gillian Anderson
16.Britney Spears
17.Natalie Imbruglia
18.Katie Price
19.Courteney Cox
20.Neve Campbell
21.Mariah Carey
22.Elizabeth Hurley
23.Denise Richards
24.Isla Fisher
25.Carmen Electra
#14 is Anna Kournikova
ReplyDeleteYou may have something there
UGH! No no no - Procurement Dude doesn't know what happened to her, can't be anyone still famous.
ReplyDeleteExactly, because we'd know if she was that famous, right?
ReplyDeleteWe really need to be sitting around a corner booth in a pub discussing this. A pub with wifi.
ReplyDeleteHi @Random Fan, yeah, I think you'll find that 'Oligarch Boris Berzovsky' also 'committed suicide'...by 'strangulation' outside of London..his partner died of a 'Heart attack' in London, his friend Alex Litvinenko was a little more obvious seeing all the plutonium found in his system put in his food in London hotel...list goes on & on & on---all leads back to Vladimar Putin... the investigation reads like a John Le Carre Novel-pretty wild stuff going on over there.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't make sense. If they know YE ordered death why don't they just whack him instead of random Russian businessmen in the UAE?
ReplyDeleteThe tournaments Kournikova participated in between late March until May 2000 according to the WTA website:
ReplyDeleteMIAMI: 23 March - 2 April (R16)
AMELIA ISLAND: 10 - 16 April (Quarterfinals)
HILTON HEAD: 17 - 23 April (R16)
FED CUP WORLD GRP 1: 24 April - ? (3 matches)
HAMBURG: 2 - 7 May (Quarterfinals)
BERLIN: 8 May - ? (R32)
FRENCH OPEN: 29 May - 11 June (R64)
The two guys are probably the Klitschkos and the current paramour is probably Hayden, right?
ReplyDeleteHmm this is on Pavel Bure's wikipedia
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Bure
"Bure shared a relationship with tennis star and fellow Russian Anna Kournikova. The two met in 1999 when Kournikova was still linked to Bure's former Russian teammate Sergei Fedorov.[168] Bure and Kournikova were reported to have been engaged in 2000 after reporter Andrew Greven took a photo of them together in a Florida restaurant where Bure supposedly asked Kournikova to marry him. As the story made headlines in Russia, where they were both heavily followed in the media as celebrities, Bure and Kournikova both denied any engagement. Kournikova, 10 years younger than Bure, was 18 years old at the time.[169] The following year, Kournikova and Fedorov were married in Moscow.[168] They were soon divorced, however, and Kournikova later entered into a long term relationship with pop star Enrique Iglesias in 2001 after appearing in his music video "Escape."[170]
Bure married 23-year-old model Alina Khasanova on October 10, 2009."
YD - Paris Hilton
ReplyDeleteYE - Rick Solomon + Pamela Anderson
YF - Joe Francis
????? Maybe????
this one is real hard
ReplyDeletewhat time?
ReplyDeleteOk..so I'm going to throw the name Noelle Reno into the lot. My brain is melting trying to figure this one out.
ReplyDelete@Presto,I know !!! isn't it all so F**** up???---My Problem w/Bure is nobody knows Alina Khasanova(...get the name: Casanova...just sayin').
ReplyDelete-It gets better-- Bure won a lawsuit for defamation-2 lawsuits actually i think-that he took anna's virginity//Anna has two vaginas--he won but did he? cuz he sued a seriously connected(& not in a good way)guy(i forget name..K**?);
-Fedorov still does a shiteload of business here in the states(he lives in Fla. 1/2 the year)
@ Planet J...it's already been thrown in the mix...you're on same thought progression as me i think.. ; )
ReplyDeleteBTW, Enty --these have been really fun B.I.s--thanks. : )
ReplyDeleteI know...trouble spot...let's keep plucking away...it's fun
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking 1999 as well @ Princess Kate
ReplyDeleteoops sorry! I've googled so much today on this subject,I think my brain is half fried..lol! There has been a lot of death/murder/suicide around that lady..it has elements of the Arab (Turkish) and Russian mob all over it too. crazy shit!
ReplyDeleteWould a Jewish Israeli citizen(Portman), be screwing Muslim men for money?
ReplyDelete+100!
ReplyDeleteBut how it all fits is beyond me!
ReplyDeletei know @ Wendy,i wrote "i dunno who Sergei's with now but..". BECAUSE he (TE) keeps a low profile & Anna (TD in my silly scenario world thanks to @slim shady) is NOTORIOUS for being extremely private.(eg-are she & Englesios actually married? still together? really live in Fla?..alive?) you catch my drift..
ReplyDeletenone of my nephews or nieces know Anna K. but ALL know Tara Reid from Sharknado??? just thinking @ the clues
ReplyDeleteYou guys have done exemplary work with you guesses and the supporting reasoning behind them. This is the first thing I have been coming to the past 3 days after work. Well done everyone!
ReplyDelete@Planet J,hahaha-i didn't mean that you repeated(who doesn't)...it was more like..omg ! that's exactly what i'm thinking !!! : )
ReplyDelete@Sean,well maybe if the money's good..who knows generally. -but you're right--no way,no how would Natalie P.-she's so outspoken & passionate @ her heritage & need to preserve it..yadda,yadda, it would fly in the face of everything about which she's been protective
ReplyDeleteI thank @ glitterb0mb --certainly got me started !!! now i'm intrigued cuz i've always been into all the secretive russian in london stuff..( & don't even get me started on all the connections w/certain Chinese "V.I.P.s" )...
ReplyDeleteHoly Crap!! Sara Michelle Gellar was rated #1 ???? -what freaking blackout was I in for a year???
ReplyDeleteI agree, so far, AK fits the best. It could be that Enty misspoke about the girlfriend being current . . . maybe he just meant that Federov went on to date someone more famous. (Although, as a rabid tennis fan, I take exception to the idea of Tara Reid being more famous than the very talented Kournaikova, but oh well.) Also, I googled Anna Kournikova and million dollar bracelet, and didn't get a direct hit, but there are a bunch of pictures wearing expensive looking jewelry.
ReplyDeleteAlso found this article:
http://variety.com/2011/dirt/real-estalker/tennis-hottie-anna-kournikova-lists-miami-mansion-1465/
Hahaha, we do!!!! None of my friends IRL are into gossip. And they all think John Travolta is straight.
ReplyDeleteYes, we want more!
ReplyDelete...and, Enrique met Anna for his MTV video of his song "ESCAPE"...Hmmmm, coincidence??? ...escape?? escape from what..& why was Anna K. the Perfect person for his video??
ReplyDeleteGreat job everyone- what will tomorrows bring?!
ReplyDeleteenty keep the good tea pouring:)
As an avid tennis fan you consider Kournikova talented? I always thought she was sort of a joke. Guys all thought she was hot, but she never backed it up on the court.
ReplyDeleteShe was a fantastic doubles player! She won two majors playing doubles. That's nothing to sneeze at.
ReplyDeleteI didn't follow tennis as closely as I do now. My main reason for NOT thinking this is her is that I don't see any of the current top pros doing the whore thing. They work for years and YEARS to get where they are, and they travel in bubbles with their team. They also make a shitload of money. I can't imagine the current stars today being yacht girls. Maybe for the ones who aren't at the top of the tour, but anyone winning majors -- even in doubles -- was not hurting for money.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely NOT Beyonce. YD doesn't have a career today, remember?
ReplyDeleteAnyone feeling like doing the background on Estella or Mena?
ReplyDeleteIf only the blind said he went on to date someone arguably more famous, then this could be Anna but it says they are together now, so there's a dead end.
ReplyDelete@BA..This blind in def a mind bender! I had to stop searching before my brain melted..lol..I'll look more into it tonight when I can't sleep..have to do something while suffering from insomnia! I love reading your comments btw!
ReplyDeleteI agree--although I would have guessed sooner but I was at a Pumpkin Patch!
ReplyDeleteThis was when she was on Buffy and it was a very popular show.
ReplyDeleteAnna K and Russian hockey players Sergei Federov and Pavel Bure. They had a love triangle when she was 18 and Federov and her had a sudden engagement and rumored marriage. It makes sense that old Red Army team hockey players would have to pay protection money to the Russian mob.
ReplyDeletePamela Anderson or Naomi Campbell
ReplyDeleteWhen's the reveal on the blind that everyone thinks is Sinatra, eh?
ReplyDeleteKim Smith: http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Kim_Smith/
ReplyDeleteCarmen Electra???
ReplyDeleteI'm on board with Anna. "A friend of one or the other would get beat up. No one had ever been killed." Hockey justice - one would send out an enforcer to beat up the teammate of the other.
ReplyDeleteThe reason you don't see many Asians on Cannes Circuit is beacuse they go through a different 'procurement' process. But they is definitely demand for them in the Middle East. Also, there is a fear of public 'moral' backlash in Asian countries, so a lot of it is very under the radar to suit their cultural/soceital needs, and keep their star from being tarnished.
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Who did Britney get engaged/married to? None of her partners have been A listers except Justin Timberlake, and I can't imagine Britney-era JT hiring hitmen.
ReplyDeleteScot Young had investments in Russian real estate. He wasn't Russian.
ReplyDeleteYE & YF= Russian tennis players Marat Safin and Yvegney Kafelnikov
ReplyDeleteYD could be Dasha Zhukova, who grew up in the US but is the daughter of a Russian oligarch. She dated Safin for a while then hooked up with a major oligarch named Roman Abramovich who is a billionaire many many times over. He left his wife for her. They are now globe trotting socialites and she made herself famous in the art world. There are pix of them every New Year in St Barts where they own one of many houses
I just looked up all these people and wow! Roman's ex wife looks mad as hell,in almost every picture after the quick divorce..I would be too,after 25yrs! At least she got several houses and 150mil.
ReplyDeleteRoman Abramovich & Dasha Zhukova have been married for 6 years--since 2009-- & they have 2 children together--& yes he totally screwed over his ex-wife,who didn't see an actual divorce coming-in 2008.
ReplyDeletehe invested & made oodles & oodles of money & was very intricately involved with the OLD Kremlin Powers-that-be--no question how he made his money & with whom--he was part of the puzzle-just trace his investments/monies/off-shore interests from 2001-2013
ReplyDeleteC'Mon ...Seriously,as i called him out above,it's pretty apparent who is behind all of this---kinda like who just assassinated Boris Nemstov Yesterday-the night before his anti-Putin 'drive'---coincidence? i think not.
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Definitely Anna K. Pavel Bure had some Russian watch drama around this time as well. I think Entry meant to say the girls significant other now is more famous than her ex. Anna K dated Sergei Federal when she was significantly underage
ReplyDeleteam i dumb for assuming the woman might be russian? for some reason my mind immediately went to anna kournikova but enrique hiring a hitman? lol idk about that.
ReplyDeleteshes really not still famous. only in tabloids now b/c of her and enrique's breakup.
ReplyDeleteHeya i am for the first time here. I found this board and I find It really useful & it helped me out much. I hope to offer one thing again and aid others such as you helped me.
ReplyDeleteA year later, but on Anna K, it's known that she kind of ditched tennis for awhile to pursue modeling after her tennis fame brought those sorts of offers.
ReplyDeleteJennifer A??
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ReplyDeleteI think it's a model an not Anna K.
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