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Yulia Lemigova, Miss USSR 1991 -her life like a Soap Opera-
Yulia Lemigova former Soviet model and beauty queen, second runner up in Miss Universe 1991, also had an exceptional ear for languages, a good nose for business and an ability to make friends in all the right places. Edouard Stern, 50, a prominent banker, was her lover Lemigova was the last Miss Soviet Union before its collapse. She met Stern, who was born into one of Europe’s oldest banking families, at a dinner in 1997 and the financier was immediately smitten. There followed a weekend at Stern’s chateau in Burgundy and trysts in hotels all over the world. In 1999 Lemigova told Stern that she was pregnant but he was apparently never fully convinced that the child was his. Lemigova believes that Stern, who through often brilliant transactions had amassed a fortune of £540m, put her under surveillance. Her son Maximilien was born in New York in October that year. In early 2000, when the boy was five months old, she placed an advertisement on a church noticeboard for a nanny. A woman appeared on her doorstep asking for work. A few days later Maximilien fell seriously ill. He died in hospital on March 10. Doctors found internal injuries which suggested that he could have been shaken. Lemigova, the nanny and Stern, who had spent an hour in Lemigova’s flat on the day the baby was taken to hospital, were questioned by an examining magistrate. The nanny subsequently disappeared. Lemigova wonders now whether the baby’s death was accidental or if the nanny was paid to murder him. Then came a telephone call from Cecile Brossard, Edouard Stern second misstress, who was reported to have worked as a luxury call girl, asking for a meeting in a Paris restaurant. At one point, Brossard offered to tell her “the truth about the death of your son”. That information never came out to the light since Brossard was convicted of a “crime of passion”, after she killed Stern, knowing the funds were frozen, money that was supposed to “buy her silence.”
Yulia Lemigova taking part in Miss Universe 1991 Note: if for any reason the video does not load, please click here
For more details and information please visit: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article382079.ece
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