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Alena KravetcSinger, former model
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Content:
- Biography of Alena Kravets
- Music
- Film and Television
- Personal Life
- Scandals
- Secret Son of the Socialite
- Current Status
Biography of Alena Kravets
Alena Kravets (formerly Kruglikova) is a Russian actress, singer, producer, and model. She was born on May 30, 1985, in Moscow to a military father and a teacher at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. She grew up as the only child in the family. Kravets' childhood was spent in the Chistye Prudy district. In her teenage years, she was scouted by a modeling agency due to her striking figure and began walking the runways in Russia, Germany, Italy, and America.
Despite her parents' concerns about her successful academic career, Kravets was able to graduate from law school and later from Moscow State University with a degree in psychology. She also received training in acting and vocal performance at the Aleksey Borodin School of Acting and the Nikolay Vasilyev School of Pop Vocal. She pursued both disciplines at the State Institute of Theatrical Arts (GITIS). However, Kravets transitioned from being a dancer to becoming a singer.
Music
During a party, Alena performed a few songs for entertainment. Her vocal talent was noticed by representatives from the entertainment industry, who convinced her to pursue music seriously. Her first music video was for the song "Prosto kino" ("Just a Movie"), followed by several hit singles. Since 2012, she has maintained an official YouTube channel where she releases new music videos and television appearances. However, new releases are infrequent. In 2017, she released the single "Ya ne tvoya" ("I'm Not Yours"), followed by "Ya ne takaya, kak vse" ("I'm Not Like Everyone Else") in June 2019, and "Mezhdu nami" ("Between Us") in October 2020. In January 2021, she premiered the music video for the song "Song Sekret."
Film and Television
After completing her training at GITIS, Alena made her debut in the film industry. She appeared in episodes of the TV series "Papiny dochki" ("Daddy's Girls") and "Schastlivy vmeste" ("Happy Together"), before landing roles in the adventure detective series "Rokovoe nasledstvo" ("Fatal Inheritance") and the medical melodrama "Zemskiy doctor. Lyubov vopreki" ("Country Doctor. Love Against All Odds"). Alena is also a frequent guest on television talk shows, where she discusses various topics. She participated in the show "Davai pozhenimsya!" ("Let's Get Married!") hosted by Larisa Guzeeva, where her former boyfriend, Mikhail Terekhin, who is also the ex-boyfriend of Ksenia Borodina, was the potential groom. However, their relationship did not work out.
In October 2018, Alena appeared on the show "Modnyy prigovor" ("Fashion Verdict"), where fashion experts helped her update her wardrobe with new outfits.
Personal Life
Alena met her husband, Ruslan Kravets, a currency investor, while working as a model in America. At the oligarch's request, she left the runway to prioritize a domestic life. They soon had a daughter named Daniela. The couple was married for 9 years before getting divorced, which was not a simple process due to financial disputes. After the divorce, Ruslan continued to visit Alena, and he left her with their daughter in a mansion in Rublyovka, valued at $750 million by experts.
Alena violated the only condition Ruslan had set, which was to not have any other men in the mansion. As a result, their interactions often ended in scandals. In late 2016, an angered Ruslan kidnapped Daniela and refused to return the child to Alena for three months.
After the winter break in 2017, Kravets received a mansion in Rublyovka as a gift from an Italian admirer, and later, a house in Yalta was registered in her name. Her admirer also gifted her a car worth several million rubles.
On the first day of summer 2018, Alena remarried Ruslan. Their daughter played a role in reconciling the parents. The bride wore a dress of her own design, and after the ceremony, the newlyweds and a few guests went to the mansion in Rublyovka.
However, in early 2019, there were reports in the media that the couple had separated again. According to Alena, the reasons for the breakup were erotic photos, fans, extravagant behavior, and her "bohemian" lifestyle. Ruslan took their daughter abroad, cutting off communication between Daniela and her mother, and began divorce proceedings. By the end of the year, they reached an agreement on joint custody, and Daniela returned to Moscow. The couple reconciled, but rumors circulated that Alena had signed a new prenuptial agreement, the details of which were not disclosed.
In January 2021, the Kravets couple appeared as guests on the show "Na samom dele" ("In Fact"). A woman named Elena Minaeva claimed to be a relative of the millionaire, but her real father appeared on the show, and DNA tests definitively disproved her unfounded claims.
Scandals
In February 2017, Alena became a guest on the show "Na samom dele," where the case of her house robbery by her housekeeper, Sofia Voskresenskaya, was discussed.
In August of the same year, a meeting between Alena, Ruslan Kravets, and a photographer who was once found by the ex-husband in her house took place on the same talk show hosted by Dmitry Shepelev. The episode was memorable for the scandal and physical altercation that followed, although Ruslan later denied physically assaulting the star. The show revealed that hidden cameras had been placed in the model's mansion in advance, and Ruslan learned private details of his ex-wife's life through the recordings.
In October 2018, the Kravets couple found themselves in the center of another scandal. Their former housekeeper, Veronika Ilyina, who had remained silent for three years, suddenly claimed that she had a daughter with Ruslan. Although Ruslan did not deny his involvement with the woman, paternity tests showed that the child had a different father.
In 2019, the model was involved in another scandal. She engaged in an online battle with Eugenia Smorodinova, a multiple world champion in body fitness, accusing her of lacking femininity and using harmful substances that damage health. Alena also suggested that the athlete needed psychiatric help. The reaction was immediate: Smorodinova challenged Kravets to a fight in the ring, followed by a lawsuit.
In September 2019, Alena's name once again made headlines. She posted several personal photos taken near Yulia Nachalova's grave on social media, paying tribute to her late colleague six months after her death. However, many followers of the deceased star considered these photos blasphemous. Alena had to defend herself against numerous accusations. She promised to pay for a new monument for Nachalova.
In May 2020, Alena caught her husband, Ruslan Kravets, cheating on her with Dana Borisova, which became the subject of another episode of "Na samom dele." This was not the first public family dispute involving Kravets on the show; in 2018, she confronted Ksenia Merts, who was interested in her husband.
In March, during the show "Zvezdy soslis'" ("Stars Collided"), Kravets revealed that she takes care of her hair and uses wigs for photoshoots. She brought her favorite snowy-white wig to the show. In the same month, she appeared on "Na samom dele" once again, where she got into a physical fight with singer Aziza, who scratched Alena's face and hands. Alena claimed to have suffered serious injuries, bleeding, and panic attacks, but the women later reconciled.
Secret Son of the Socialite
In November 2021, a new scandal erupted on the show "Na samom dele" involving Alena. A young man named Roman Gimro claimed to be her son, whom she allegedly abandoned in the maternity ward 21 years ago. The celebrity admitted to Roman Ustyuzhanin that she did leave a child born prematurely in that maternity ward at that time, but he did not survive. However, experts discovered that Roman had lied and was not Alena's son.
But the scandal surrounding her alleged secret child did not end there. A month later, another program aired, revealing a midwife from the maternity ward. According to her, in 2000, Alena and Ruslan Kravets paid her to arrange a birth without official registration, and Alena did everything possible to prevent the child from being born. She wore a tight corset and used folk remedies to induce a miscarriage. However, the child was born alive. Kruglikova then allegedly refused the child, and he was somehow given to another family. The show's editors managed to find the grown-up boy, Mikhail, and a new DNA test was supposed to determine if he was Alena's son.
The outcome of the story was revealed on the show "Na samom dele." Mikhail, the presumed son of the celebrity, revealed how his childhood had been. To Alena's surprise, Ella Promokhova, Mikhail's adoptive mother, appeared in the studio. Ella admitted that she was in love with Ruslan and that he asked her to adopt the boy.
Promokhova accused Alena of "enslaving" her with drugs, which not only led to her serving a prison sentence but also caused her to develop cancer. Interestingly, Ella and Mikhail refused to undergo a DNA test. However, Ruslan's current civil partner agreed to be tested because she had given birth to a child who could have been Alena's grandchild if the kinship had been established.
The genetic analysis proved otherwise. However, the show's host expressed hope that the real son of Kravets would someday appear in the studio.
Current Status
In anticipation of the New Year 2022, Alena prepared a new song titled "Kukla" ("Doll") for her music fans. In her Instagram posts, she revealed that she had been called a doll since early childhood and that she is now ready to accept that nickname.
