Ksenia Sobchak won half a million rubles for her portrait

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak at one time became famous for rather scandalous remarks about public figures. Some famous personalities even sued her for “insults to her dignity,” but usually the claims ended in symbolic compensation. Now Ksenia herself is fighting for her name and has recently sued the Yauza-press publishing house, which published the book The Prodigal Daughter of the Kremlin. Ksenia Obschak , quite a round sum.

A book with an ambiguous title was published last year. According to the author of the potential bestseller Alexei Chelnokov, he simply collected well-known information about Ksenia Sobchak on the Internet and presented it in a book.

The annotation to the book says that Sobchak received the nickname “Ksenia Obschak” “not for her connection with the criminal world, but when one and a half million euros were found in her home safe, which they rushed to declare“the common fund of the opposition”and“the underground cash desk of the orange revolution in Russia”” …

However, it was not the text that caused Xenia's indignation, but her portrait on the cover. Today the Kuzminskiy District Court of Moscow ruled to collect about 550 thousand rubles from the publisher. In addition, according to a court decision, the entire print run must be destroyed.

"I always sue scammers who use my name to advertise, increase sales, etc. I hate crooks and thieves in everything!:))) Victory !!" - wrote Kenya on Twitter after learning about the court's decision.

Now secular observers are wondering whether the Yauza-press publishing house plans to appeal the court decision. Earlier, the chief editor of the organization, Alexander Koshelev, told Moskovsky Komsomolets that there was no reason for the claim at all. “We took into account that no one would sell their photos for a critical book, so we painted Ksenia. It's not even a caricature,”the man explained.