She lives in near-constant anxiety that her ex-husband or someone who works for him could find her. While Sulkess hunts for clues about Grishin, her friend Anna Fedoseeva has become a recluse in Moscow. “Like, You will lose your ability to leave your apartment without fearing that I’m there. “He says, I want you to feel as if you are stuck in a padded room at all times,” she adds, paraphrasing his messages. There are no cameras at that location-I’ve checked.” And I will be waiting for you there, with a knife. On another page, she spots a text message that Grishin sent to Fedoseeva years earlier during their divorce and begins to read it aloud: “When you leave the garage you will suddenly have a flat tire at the exit. He tells you what he’s going to do-you have to pay attention.” She pauses at a photo of Fedoseeva, her teeth cracked and face bloody. “I would do this almost as a form of therapy,” she says, flipping through the material, organized meticulously with hand-labeled tabs. She’s even learning Russian, so she can read the Russian press in case they write about her or Grishin. Sulkess has scoured the binder so many times over the years that she’s practically committed it to memory, able to recall the location of specific quotes within its hundreds of pages. On her laptop, she has archived hundreds of screenshots of things that his social media company, 421 Media, has posted on Instagram in case any might hold clues about his plans or prove useful in court. For three years, she has coped with her anxiety about him by spending nearly every waking hour working on her legal cases against him and looking for hints about his next move. Sulkess, who keeps her reddish-brown hair pulled into a messy bun, sat beside a large binder she carries whenever she travels, filled with court documents about Grishin and evidence she’s collected. “He tells you what he’s going to do-you have to pay attention.” Two women who for years had been on opposite sides of the same nightmare-Sulkess, fighting against Grishin in court, and Kevorkian, who had been paid professionally to cater to his needs-were now coming together to try to expose him. Within days, I was sitting in front of them in a conference room in San Francisco. Minutes after hanging up the phone, Sulkess booked a flight to Los Angeles to meet up with the assistant, Ilona Kevorkian. Brushed off by law enforcement, these women have largely been left to fend for themselves. Grishin declined to answer dozens of questions put to him by Mother Jones, but he said through his attorneys that he “denies each of the lurid and sensational claims made against him” by “sources whose credibility is seriously in doubt,” and that he “has never been charged with any crimes because he has not violated the law.” Yet it’s undeniable that women in multiple countries are living in fear of the billionaire. This article is based on a review of thousands of pages of court records, letters to law enforcement, copies of text messages, and social media posts, as well as interviews with Grishin’s former personal assistant, women who accuse him of harassing and threatening them, and their attorneys. Sergey Grishin, seated, on the set of a music videoīut the company’s hundreds of millions of followers may not realize that by sharing these viral posts, they’re helping to enrich a man who has been accused in court documents of harassing and abusing Sulkess, Fedoseeva, and other women, sometimes using online channels, including personal Instagram accounts owned by a previous social media company he created. Called 421 Media, it pumps out viral Instagram content-everything from food porn to photos of nail art-hoping to attract more followers, who attract advertisers like HBO Max and Paramount. His multiple US-based businesses include a social media company in California with more than 300 million Instagram followers. Last August, he made the news when he sold his lavish, 7-acre estate near Santa Barbara, California, to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Sergey Grishin, 54, has spent more than a decade living on and off in the United States, where he is well-connected. For more articles read aloud: download the Audm iPhone app.
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