With a rich dowry: Chaliapin, Arkhipov and other stars who married millionaires

In 2021, Prokhor Chaliapin married a millionaire from Canada, Tatyana Claudia Davis, 42. This union was discussed for more than a day: someone believed in sincere love between the newlyweds, others believed that Prokhor to Tatyana Claudia was attracted only by money. This inspired us with a selection of stories where stars married rich girls.

Chaliapin is known for his love of older (and wealthier) women, so his marriage to 42-year-old Canadian millionaire Tatyana Claudia Davis came as a surprise to few. The new wife of the artist is the owner of a network of law firms specializing in divorce proceedings, who has lived abroad for about 30 years. The wedding was secret, but magnificent: the lovers were married in Las Vegas, renting the entire club of the fashionable Wynn hotel for the closure.

Many, of course, were interested in the main question: is there love in this couple? There were suggestions that the marriage was of convenience: they say that Prokhor only needs money, and Tatyana Claudia needs the status of a young Russian handsome man’s wife.

No matter how it is: Chaliapin’s friend Georgy Kiryanov in an interview immediately denied the assumptions of sofa critics. “Tanya has long-term plans: it’s her first marriage, she wants to obtain American citizenship with Prokhor, because she is sure that he will succeed in Hollywood. She is ready to help him in his career. It’s all serious on his part,” Kiryanov assured. A friend of Prokhor also added that Davis, as someone with extensive experience in divorce cases, immediately made sure and insisted that her fiancé sign a prenup. It was written on 150 pages that the artist does not claim his wife’s millions.Alas, this love story ended very quickly: a month after the wedding, Prokhor’s wife died.

Husband, and a month later widower: all about Prokhor Chaliapin’s short-lived and tragic marriage

During the years of popularity of the Chelsea group, Roman Arkhipov did not suffer from a lack of attention from fans, but he never met the same. This happened years later: in 2019, the artist married Alisa, the daughter of the founder of the Karo cinema channel, Leonid Ogorodnikov.

The girl, like her father, sought to create something large-scale and profitable, but her attempts were unsuccessful. Lingerie shops, beauty salons and hotels have been replaced by the desire to sing. Ogorodnikova is trying to break into show business as a singer and dancer under the pseudonym Eliss Roxx. In fact, this is how the future spouses met: Roman worked on Alice’s repertoire. And then, as it turned, it turned…

The couple is still happy together: on September 7, 2021, they celebrated their second wedding anniversary. “She always supports me in some of my endeavors, in business – in anything! She really is a true wife, a person who is always there, who inspires,” says Roman. Romance!

A few years ago, few people in our country knew Igor Bulatov, although he was once a prominent personality, because his wife was Tata Karapetyan, the daughter of the founder of the Tashir Samvel Karapetyan group of companies (wealth – $3.3 billion).

Igor and Tata met when they were still teenagers, and a romantic relationship soon began between them, which a few years later led to a marriage proposal. Rumor has it that Samvel did not particularly like Igor, but he did not go against his daughter’s wishes and gave his blessing to the marriage. And after the wedding, he arranged for his son-in-law to take one of the leadership positions in Tashir.

In 2014, Igor and Tata became parents to a son, named after his grandfather Samvel. In July 2018, the couple’s daughter Amelia was born. The happiness of his birth was soon overshadowed by the fact that Bulatov was preparing to become a father for the third time, and, alas, it was not his wife who was pregnant at all. It’s even hard to imagine how Tata felt when she saw pictures of her husband and his pregnant girlfriend vacationing in Miami in early 2019. It ended their union.

According to Tata, Igor simply did not pass the test of power and money. How could you fail this exam? When you’ve been given so much in life. It was the greatest idiocy and selfishness. As paradoxical as it may seem, I realized that my finest hour had come. Not in front of followers, not in front of business partners – in front of my parents, my brothers, my family. I could not do otherwise than with restraint and poise. For me, this was a huge step forward. And for Igor? Well, how can I resist a person’s self-destruction, if it’s their own choice? – Karapetyan reasoned philosophically years later.

Few people remember that before Regina Todorenko, Vlad Topalov was already married. In the fall of 2015, the artist linked up with the owner of an elite studio and heiress to a million-dollar fortune, Ksenia Danilina. Before the wedding, the young people met only a few months. By the way, they broke up just as quickly: the marriage broke up after only a year and a half.

The reason for the gap is banal: the spouses could not cope with everyday problems. “My wife and I started swearing constantly. Bytovuha. At one point, there were more negative emotions than good ones. I even went to the clinic to cure my nerves. Somehow it didn’t stick. We flew to rest, we rested well, but something was wrong. And we didn’t have children, and for some reason it didn’t work out … And I thought: well, she’s young, her whole life is ahead of her, there’s no no children, why suffer? Topalov shared in an interview. Moreover, Vlad admitted that his stepmother did not like him. And Ksenia, in turn, did not understand the peculiarities of her husband’s work: she often asked to go to social events with him, while the artist himself ran there for three minutes – to take a picture and to return to his place.

Today Vlad is married to Regina Todorenko, with whom his views on life completely coincide.

In the 90s, according to Vlad Stashevsky, millions of women in our country went crazy. But he, a handsome 23-year-old man from oriental fairy tales, was taken away by Olga Aleshina, the daughter of Luzhniki general director Vladimir Alyoshin. Millionaire status was immediately added to Vlad’s star status. Rumor has it that the singer’s producer, Yuri Aizenshpis, contributed to this marriage, because he feared that otherwise his ward would go the wrong way. And Vlad really went the other way, but still not the same: the artist refused to cooperate with the producer, hoping that the money from the Aleshin family would help him to remain a popular artist. But everything went completely wrong, and in the end Stashevsky disappeared from the radar.

At the same time, her marriage also fell apart: it is said that the artist was simply kicked out of the family. As Olga admitted years later, it was not possible to stay on good terms with her ex-husband. Moreover, Vlad cut all ties not only with his ex-wife, but also with his son Daniel from this marriage. In December 2020, father and son met for the first time after 20 years apart.