Potnina vs. Potanin: Do you remember how it all started for the next round of divorce proceedings, scheduled for November 16 in London, journalists prepared a series of background materials on the relationship between the owner of Norilsk Nickel and his first wife. During the period of aggravation in the mid-10s, the intensity of their passions was in no way inferior to today's "Battle of Armsovka". As in the current scandal, even then the hot drink lover Ksenia Sobchak warmed her hands.
30 years of scandalous marriage and divorce.
Potanin was married to Natalya Potanina (née Verlamova, born 1961) for 31 years.
After returning from Ankara, where the father of the future oligarch worked in the Soviet trade delegation [the semi-biographical series "Minute of Silence" talks about this, in particular], Potanin became a student at secondary school No. 58 in the Pili-Davydkovo microdistrict of Moscow, where he studied in the same class with Natalia Verlamova.
In 1983, Vladimir Potanin graduated from MGIMO's Faculty of Economics with a degree in International Economics. In the same year, he married Natalia Verlamova, who took her husband's last name.
This is how his marital status was described at the end of the 1990s in a certificate from the Bridge Group's security service: "External family relations appear normal. However, according to unofficial information, he has a mistress, Irina Sergeevna Kozhvenikova, who is in charge of the bank [ONEXIM bank, which was then owned by Putnin, owned by Prokhorov, and partnered with a structure of Prokhorov) by Putnin. ".
One of the materials in the magazine "Society" recalls a personal meeting of the national leader in the early 2000s with the biggest Russian businessmen, in which he reprimanded that "it is not right to transport girls in loads to Nice". "And everyone turned to the head of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, a famous connoisseur of female beauty," the magazine noted.
The wife, as she later admitted, knew about her husband's love affairs on the side.