Childhood and youth
Olga was born in January 1965 in Leningrad. Father Sergei Berezovsky is a famous lawyer, Honored Lawyer of Russia. At the time she met him, Olga’s mother was married to a Czech diplomat and lived and worked abroad. However, she met a young lawyer on vacation, according to Olga, “a lover of a beautiful life, a reveler and a handsome man,” and lived with him for fifty years. The main thing that the parents taught their daughter was to respect the law and not betray her friends.
Olga Slutsker
Olya studied at an English school and loved to read. The physical education teacher advised the parents of a completely unathletic girl to send their child to a sports school. And the father accidentally enrolled his daughter in the fencing section, although he thought that he had come to the pool. Saevich Slutsker calls his coach Faina Naumovna fantastic.
Olya soon began to show results, later she studied at a sports boarding school, graduated from the Peter Lesgaft University of Physical Education, joined the city team and went to competitions. As the businesswoman herself admitted, she connected her future with sports.
Olga Slutsker practiced fencing
In an interview in the mid-2000s, Olga said that she was a desperate fencer and was covered in bruises from blows. I also liked the fact that there were a lot of boys around; it was more interesting and easier to communicate with them. She looked up to the Belarusian athlete Elena Belova, whom she also considered the standard of beauty.
Business and sports
Olga Slutsker is practically the first woman for whom fitness is not just a way to maintain physical shape, but part of her business biography, and on an international scale. A photo of a beautiful, fit brunette is a visual advertisement of her business.
Olga Slutsker
The idea of creating a network of clubs, which is now known throughout the CIS under the World Class brand, originated in Italy. While traveling, Olga took an aerobics class and realized that a gold mine had opened up in front of her. The starting capital of $700 thousand was lent by the husband Vladimir. At first, acquaintances did not appreciate Slutsker’s business zeal: what is it like to sell physical education. But Olga was guided by the principle that people want to be like celebrities, and over time this approach bore fruit.
Shortly before this, the senator’s wife met Yuri Aizenshpis, who introduced the woman into the capital’s secular circles. Now Olga’s friends include gossip column regulars Stepan Mikhalkov, Svetlana Bondarchuk, Ksenia Sobchak, Albina Nazimova.
Olga Slutsker World Class Club
Vladimir’s partners, as well as the Moscow elite, became the first clients. The husband subsequently stepped away from business and said that all issues fall on Olga’s shoulders. Therefore, she graduated from the State University of Management and became a regular at international fitness seminars.
Personal life
At the time Olga met Vladimir Slutsker, the latter was considered one of the most successful first businessmen of the new Russia. The meeting took place in Sochi, where the girl came with friends on vacation. Over time, my husband moved from big business to big politics - he sat on the Federation Council, headed the Russian Jewish Congress, and after moving to Israel he founded the Israeli Jewish Congress.
Vladimir Slutsker and Olga Slutsker
Olga does not hide the fact that the children were carried by a surrogate mother. In 2017, the online magazine Tatler.ru, in an article about celebrities with such children, citing the words of a businesswoman, announced the cost of the procedure - $ 20 thousand. But the curious know only a few details of the selection of the candidate who bore Slutsker’s third and fourth children; all personal information remained outside the scope.
The eldest Mikhail and Anna were born while still married; the boy was carried by an American woman, the girl was born in Russia. Parents divorced in 2009. Their nanny shared the scandalous details, as well as the peculiarities of raising children, in an interview with LIFE.RU. According to her, Olga cheated on her husband, and was very restrained in showing maternal feelings. Perhaps this is the only time Olga made her private life public.
Olga Slutsker with children
According to her, she turned to the press in order, firstly, to defend her good name. Secondly, she decided that journalists would be able to impartially cover the divorce proceedings, in which, as she considered, the court initially took the side of her ex-husband under the influence of her deputy status.
Vladimir went to Israel and took the children. For a couple of years, details of the trial appeared on news channels and on the Internet, during which Slutsker was not afraid to voice the smallest details. Over time, the passions subsided, Olga admitted that she had forgiven her husband, and occasionally sees her daughter and son in Israel.
Olga Slutsker and Evgeny Mironov
In the midst of the trial, paparazzi photographed the socialite several times in the company of actor Yevgeny Mironov. The online publication Spletnik.ru, owned by a close friend of Polina Deripaska, cited unnamed sources, from which it followed that the affair between the owner of World Class and a Russian film star was the reason for the divorce.
As the tabloids suggest, perhaps if Misha and Anya were nearby, the woman would not have decided to have more children. Twins Masha and Katya were born in 2013. Olga did not name her father, she only said that he was “amazing, smart, and the girls were very lucky.” The publication EG.ru put forward a version that Slutsker spoke in this way about the Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Neft OJSC Alexander Dyukov. Journalists recorded him as the father of Olga’s son, born in 2015.
Olga Slutsker and Alexander Dyukov
Olga collects works of art - Russian artists of the 19th century, paintings and photographs by Andy Warhol, Rauf Mamedov, Man Ray and other Western authors of the second half of the 20th century. The fitness queen was the first Russian to start buying works by the famous classic photographer Helmut Newton.
At the same time, acquisitions do not gather dust behind the walls of mansions, but decorate the walls of clubs and are exhibited in expositions. Having once bought fakes for serious money, Olga decided not to use the services of Russian dealers and consults mainly with gallery owner Aidan Salakhova.
Olga Slutsker and other women who do not change at all over time
I've been living for a long time. Now is the time to admit this, because back in the late eighties, in the very popular magazine “Science and Life” at that time, I read an article that scientists were working on the final and irrevocable victory over old age. Little did I know, a simple Soviet schoolboy, that they had already moved from mice to Sofia Rotaru! How else can we explain that since the time of Nikita Khrushchev, the singer seemed to have frozen. No matter who led our country - Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin - after the chimes, Sofia Mikhailovna sang in the New Year's "Blue Light". And she always looked about the same: a white-toothed smile, straight dark hair, a proudly raised chin. It is unlikely that all this is thanks to the rejuvenating apples from the garden of her Yalta hotel.
Jokes aside, there really are quite a lot of women in Russia who have not changed for decades. Svetlana Bondarchuk, Irina Khakamada, Aidan Salakhova, Chulpan Khamatova, Olga Slutsker, Ekaterina Andreeva, Evelina Khromchenko, Alena Doletskaya - these are just those who immediately come to mind. As Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko, who spent no less energy on the fight against age than the Russian budget on the Olympics in Sochi, said, “over the years you understand that investing in appearance is the most important investment for a woman.” Of course, all of the above ladies visited plastic surgeons, tried the latest cosmetic procedures, went on diets and detoxes. They have money and time. But that's not why they look like that. Moderation, a sense of proportion and a sober outlook are what allow them not to lose face over the years. Moreover, sobriety in this context does not mean giving up alcohol. Rotaru, for example, has never rejected an offered glass, but at the same time she is very sober about age-related changes in her figure and wears exclusively floor-length dresses, belts and transparent capes. Bondarchuk, on the contrary, always focuses on slender legs and waist, diverting attention from changes in facial proportions. About Mrs. Khromchenko, we don’t know at all what she has there, behind her constant glasses, are there any telltale “crow’s feet”? Each of our heroines has her own secret of how to highlight her strengths and hide her flaws. But do not rush to become discouraged by comparing your image in the mirror with their photographs in glossy magazines. After all, in a good way, under each of them there should be a signature: “This trick was performed by professionals. Don't try it at home."
Olga Slutsker now
In March 2018, the “Active Longevity” project was launched in Moscow on the initiative of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to organize free leisure activities for pensioners on the basis of cultural, sports, and educational institutions. Olga Slutsker joined the Public Council for the implementation of the program and took the initiative to introduce a large-scale health program, including physical education, Nordic walking, dancing, and yoga.
Olga Slutsker in 2020
In addition, Olga Sergeevna is actively involved in charity work, serving on the boards of trustees of the charitable foundations “We Are Together” and “Northern Crown”, for which the Russian Orthodox Church awarded Slutsker the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duchess Olga, 3rd degree.
Olga Slutsker combined the birth of her son with plastic surgery
The scandalous divorce process of the former star couple, the queen of Russian fitness Olga Slutsker and Senator Vladimir Slutsker, which has been going on for seven months, is dragging on more and more and, most likely, will continue next year. The next meeting did not take place last Thursday, like a number of previous ones. The businesswoman and her lawyer again failed to appear at the Presnensky District Court.
The court, which Mrs. Slutsker ignored, had to consider the appeal of her ex-husband Vladimir, who asked for permission to travel abroad with the children for skiing during the winter holidays. The fact is that soon after the start of the divorce proceedings, Olga demanded that the border service prohibit the children from traveling outside Russia on vacation. As follows from the case documents, no justification for this requirement was given.
While the Slutskers’ divorce is stalled in the Presnensky court, juicy and even sensational details are leaking out from behind its doors. They say that a child's first impressions are the most vivid. Psychologists say that the image of the mother and the attitude towards her in the child’s subconscious are formed in the first hours after birth. Apparently, that’s why Olga Slutsker decided to make herself as attractive as possible before the birth of her child. According to the nanny of the Slutsker family, Alexandra Sergeeva, literally a few days before the birth of her son, she underwent several plastic surgeries at once. Plastic surgeons worked long and masterfully on her eyes and forehead. For the sake of an expensive operation, Olga Slutsker specially flew to Los Angeles.
The image reconstruction of the face and the birth of my son practically coincided in time. The nanny says that Olga went to pick up her son from the surrogate mother in bandages and spacers. The operation was successful, and within a few days the first happy photographs of the child and mother were taken, on whose face the patch remained only on the most problematic areas.
According to Alexandra Sergeeva, after the operation it was difficult for Olga to care for the baby. I had to hire an American nanny, who fed him, swaddled him, washed him, being with him almost around the clock until his grandparents arrived. The happy couple left Los Angeles with the baby in their arms only three weeks after the birth, but the consequences of plastic surgery, primarily psychological, continued to affect them. This is probably why the incident happened during the flight. Already upon boarding the plane, it was discovered that Olga had left food for the child at home - expressed milk from the surrogate mother and formula purchased in reserve for newborns. Since the flight was going to be long - 12 hours across the ocean - the flight had to be delayed, having paid a huge penalty. We had to quickly look for baby food, and only after that the plane headed for Moscow...
Although Olga Slutsker was the first in our country to openly talk about the joys of surrogacy, this episode still remained little known. In this sense, the Slutsker case is a real treasure trove for lovers of gossip columns and other people's secrets. Judging by the fact that the process will continue for a long time, new scandalous revelations will apparently not be long in coming.
