The Russian model Gusel Ganiyev sued the former Director General of the investment company Apollo Global Management Leon Black (Leon Black) for rape. It is reported by Financial Times.
According to the 33-year-old model, she met a businessman at an event in New York in 2008. Ganiev said that he had dinner with Black, and then went home to him, where he forced her to “sadistic sexual actions” and hurt for the sake of obtaining his own pleasure.
For the first time, the heroine of the material spoke about rape in April 2021. The financier called the accusations of the victim to slander and added that the model extorted money from him for several years. “I made her significant cash payments, fearing the threats to publish information about our relations, in an attempt to protect my family from public humiliation,” – assured black.
Ganiev, in turn, explained the receipt of money from the businessman at the expense of the fact that he himself offered to give her a debt of 480 thousand dollars to study at Harvard.
Blake’s representative called the accusations of Ganiyeva false and noted that their six-year relations were completely mutual. Information about the initiation of the criminal case has not yet received.
In July 2020, the Russian model, the name of which is not indicated, stated in the police of the Presnensky district of Moscow about rape by famous photographer Sergey Bermenyev. According to her, the author of portraits Federico Fellini, Jack Nicholson, David Bowie, Joseph Brodsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and other famous people spent a night casting in an apartment on a zoological street. The girl argues that Bermenyev, after rape, tonsured her hair, burned them, gave 10 thousand rubles and sent home for a taxi.