A RUSSIAN billionaire who bought Harry and Meghan their US dwelling in Montecito for £12 million has died in Moscow aged simply 56, native media stories.
Sergey Grishin, often known as the ‘Scarface Oligarch’, handed away on Monday in a Moscow hospital after a critical sickness, it’s understood.
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Russian billionaire Sergey Grishin has died
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Harry and Meghan’s lavish property in Santa Barbara, California
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He bought the lavish dwelling to the Sussexes
His explanation for dying was given as “circulatory issues in his mind” which led to sepsis.
After slamming President Putin’s regime, he beforehand known as on then-president Donald Trump to grant him a US passport saying: “I need to be protected.
“I’m form of beneath hearth proper now by the prison world of Russia…by the highest authorities officers of Russia, too.”
Nonetheless, he spent the final a part of his life in Russia, after flogging his American mansion to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Grishin had bought the mansion – often known as the Chateau of Riven Rock with a seven-acre website, pool, tennis courtroom, visitor quarters and beautiful essential home – in 2009.
The royal couple then swapped Los Angeles for close by Montecito, Santa Barbara, dwelling to A-listers resembling Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres.
His nickname Scarface was as a result of he had owned one other mansion the place the 1983 Al Pacino film was filmed.
He was the previous co-owner of RosEvroBank, and bought the seven-bedroom dwelling to the Sussexes in 2020.
The Russian tycoon additionally boasted he had introduced the Russian financial institution system to its knees within the Nineteen Nineties by committing a $60bn fraud.
He known as it “the biggest financial institution fraud scheme ever”, orchestrating a $60 billion heist from the Russian Central Financial institution.
One other one among his scams concerned using invisible ink on cheques.
He was additionally accused of constructing excessive threats to girls in his life.
One ex-lover Ekaterina Loginova questioned how a lot Harry and Meghan knew in regards to the earlier proprietor of their Californian mansion.
The Russian mannequin stated: “I like Meghan and Harry – they don’t deserve any such issues.
“I used to be simply shocked they didn’t test the vendor earlier than the transaction.”
She heard him make threats to estranged spouse Anna Fedoseeva throughout their messy divorce.
It comes after Harry and Meghan’s daughter Lilibet was christened at an intimate ceremony on the dwelling in California final week.
Round 25 visitors gathered to have a good time the event on March 3 – and members of the Royal Household had been invited however selected to not go, PEOPLE stories.
The Sussexes allegedly requested King Charles, Camilla, Prince William and Kate to be there however they declined the provide, in accordance with a supply.
As an alternative, the duke and duchess had been joined by three-year-old son Archie, Meghan’s mum Doria Ragland, Lili’s godfather Tyler Perry and between 20 and 30 shut associates.
They’re stated to have loved a day of meals and dancing following the ceremony.