Russian singer Zemfira provoked a stir on the Internet with her new single called “Crimea”. The artist sang about personal relationships and living together with her other half.
For the last 15 years (since 2005), Zemfira has been in a close relationship with actress Renata Litvinova. OBOZREVATEL decided to recall interesting moments from Zemfira’s scandalous personal life.
Zemfira, Renata Litvinova and Ksenia Sobchak
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Renata Litvinova
The love story of Zemfira and Litvinova is one of the most sensational in Russian show business. They began appearing in public together in 2005 and immediately sparked a wave of rumors about their same-sex romance. The media has repeatedly circulated information that Zemfira and Renata allegedly got married in Stockholm, and even thought about adopting a child, but the artists themselves emotionally denied this information and even threatened journalists with lawsuits.
At the same time, the stars have never officially confirmed information about family or intimate relationships. Both women say that they consider each other “geniuses”, “gifts of fate” and the closest people.
Zemfira and Renata Litvinova
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“I admire her so much and even give her the palm. I believe that Zemfira is some kind of gift. If you treat a person as some kind of gift that was given to you in life, then there are no questions about who is first and who is second,” Litvinova previously stated in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak, adding that she and Zemfira are already friends 15 years.
“Renata is unique. This is something else - more than talent. Renata is my everything, and I wouldn’t exist without her,” Zemfira also said, clarifying that they are united by “creative and friendly relations.”
Renata Litvinova: “Zemfira never lets me down”
Renata Litvinova and Zemfira often lead joint projects, and in their free time they are almost never separated from work. The actress does not hide that her friend inspires her to new creative achievements and also helps her in difficult moments.
Renata Litvinova
53-year-old Renata Litvinova rarely allows new people into her inner circle. The actress is accustomed to trusting only time-tested friends, among whom Zemfira stands out. Fans have long been discussing the too close relationship between the actress and the singer, and they do not hide the fact that they are inspired by each other’s talent.
According to Litvinova, it is very important for her to feel the support of her loved ones. It is her comrades who help Renata cope with trials and not give up. “There are few people in my inner circle. Of course, there is Zemfira, my family, my daughter Ulyana. The inner circle are people who don’t let you down. Zemfira never lets me down,” the actress is sure.
Scandal girl: Zemfira’s loudest conflicts and failures
Let us remember that Renata and Zemfira met back in the early 2000s. Litvinova invited the performer to work on her new film. Both quickly realized that they had the same views on the world and art. Since then, the stars have been practically inseparable.
“I think Zemfira is a genius. Such people should be appreciated during their lifetime. They are very vulnerable, sensitive, although sometimes it doesn’t seem so,” Renata admitted.
Renata is sure that Zemfira is one of the most talented musicians of the 21st century
But Zemfira always speaks very carefully about her relationship with Litvinova. In one of the interviews, the singer said that Renata is her only friend. Being a very reserved person, Zemfira almost never goes out into the world and does not get close to new acquaintances. That is why the relationship with Renata is of great importance to her.
Zemfira also became friends with the artist’s daughter. Ulyana has recently been studying at the Academy of Arts in Antwerp, dreaming of connecting her life with the world of design. However, now the girl is in Moscow next to her mother.
The actress's daughter lives mainly abroad
Due to the spread of coronavirus, Litvinova was forced to suspend work on her next directorial project. It is not yet known when filming will be able to resume, but in an interview with Vogue, Renata admitted that Zemfira has already written several songs for the film. The compositions turned out to be very soulful, which once again convinced the actress of the genius of the muse.
Who was Zemfira supposed to have affairs with?
Roman Abramovich
The famous Russian billionaire has never hidden the fact that he is a fan of Zemfira’s work. Abramovich not only attended Zemfira’s concerts and presentations, but was also a philanthropist and financially supported the rock singer. There were friendly and business relations between them, but in 2004-2005 the media began to massively disseminate information about the romantic relationship between the rich man and the singer.
Zemfira and Roman Abramovich
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In Oleg Kashin’s book “Zemfira,” the author also told his version of Abramovich’s relationship with the singer. According to Kashin, the affair lasted several years. His infatuation with Zemfira came to an end when the oligarch met model Daria Zhukova. After the breakup, Zemfira allegedly turned to a psychiatrist for help.
“The singer began to develop complexes, she drove herself to anorexia. Fortunately, Renata Litvinova did her best to save her beloved friend. Zemfira found shelter and a cure for heart wounds in her house,” wrote the author of the book, clarifying that it was Abramovich’s suggestion that rumors leaked about Zemfira’s same-sex affair with Litvinova. Allegedly, this helped him hide the fact of his affair with the artist and not tarnish his reputation.
Anastasia Kalmanovich
Russian actress Anastasia Kalmanovich has been the producer and director of the Zemfira project since 2000. At this time, a piquant gossip was born about the intimate relationship of two women. At the same time, Kalmanovich left her husband, Russian businessman Shabtai Kalmanovich, which further fueled the rumors. Now the famous actress denies this connection and names other reasons for her divorce, especially since since 2009, Zemfira and Anastasia have broken off both personal and working relationships.
Anastasia Kalmanovich with Zemfira
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The love affairs of Zemfira Ramazanova
Zemfira and Renata Litvinova are a couple who have been giving social circles a reason to discuss their romance for several years. However, before meeting Renata, Zemfira’s love affairs were so intense that intriguing facts are still emerging...
FIRST LOVE AND FIRST DISAPPOINTMENTS
As soon as she appeared on the capital's stage, a homely girl from Ufa, half Bashkir, half Tatar, fell in love with half of the country's teenagers. Representatives of gay people treated Zemfira especially tenderly. And this is not surprising - the songs and image of Ramazanova were very close to them. Having gained popularity, Zema plunged headlong into lesbian novels. But the singer never talked about her personal life “before Moscow.” Like, I didn’t have time for this nonsense, I was busy with my studies and music. Meanwhile, Zemfira dated men for quite a long time.
Ramazanova’s first love was her classmate at the Ufa College of Arts Vlad Kolchin Jalil Mukhametshin once revealed Zema’s secret . “In the mid-nineties, they earned their living with him at the fashionable restaurant “Zhespar.” Kolchin played the saxophone, and Zemfira sang and played the guitar.
Close friends of the singer recall that Ramazanova looked at Vlad with moist eyes and dedicated songs to him. But her feelings remained unrequited. Subsequently, Kolchin left for St. Petersburg, but did not invite Zema with him.
The second love of the future star was the director of the local radio station Sergei Anatsky . But the office romance was doomed from the very beginning. Sergei was happily married and did not want to exchange his wife for a capricious employee.
Soon Zema became interested in sound engineer Arkady Mukhtarov . Young people even lived in a civil marriage for a short time. When Zemfira moved to Moscow, Mukhtarov followed her. They broke up due to Arkady's addiction to alcohol.
BETWEEN ABRAMOVICH AND KALMANOVICH'S WIFE
A couple of years ago, news broke that Zemfira had an affair with... Roman Abramovich . This version is supported by the fact that Roman Arkadyevich secretly came to Zemfira’s concerts, and also ensured her participation in prestigious European events and even in football matches. Supporters of this version are still confident that Zemfira owes her resounding success to Abramovich. They even said that PR people specially came up with a story about Zema’s lesbian inclinations in order to divert people’s gaze from the real state of affairs. These conversations died down when the oligarch met Daria Zhukova, and Zemfira became close to Anastasia Kalmanovich.
Having been burned by the men, Zema told them a firm “no!” A woman's love entered her life. Anastasia Kalmanovich became Zemfira's producer thanks to her influential businessman husband Shabtai Kalmanovich. Then no one could have imagined that Nastya and Zemfira would be physically attracted to each other. Kalmanovich had cameras built into his home and office, which once recorded the singer and her producer in such expressive poses that her husband could not stand it. Shabtai and Nastya divorced. Around the same time, Lena Perova .
LENA PEROVA: “I REMEMBER THE EARTH WITH TENDERNESS”
“Lena was simply blown away,” Perova’s friends recall. “She went so far as to give her gifts for no reason or reason.” Lena sat on the chat of Zemfira’s website all day long, went to meetings of her fan club, where she drank endlessly. At one of these gatherings, she got so drunk that she pestered almost all the female representatives there.
Unlike Kalmanovich, Lena Perova still speaks of Zema with tenderness: “Our communication with Zemfira was imbued with fun and youthful recklessness. We went to visit each other. We played the computer game “How to Become a Millionaire,” went on rides in the cultural park and generally had fun. At some point she gained weight and was so unhappy with herself that she drank only water for a whole month. She could take a sip of cognac, but nothing to eat. Of course, she is a difficult person, but I am very glad that fate brought us together. Why did we break up? Just as she doesn’t remember, neither do I.”
After breaking up with Perova and Kalmanovich, Zema began to develop complexes that forced her to see a psychiatrist. At that time, more than one oligarch offered sponsorship and other help to Zemfira, but the singer found a cure for heart wounds in the house of Renata Litvinova (by the way, named after her uncle, although he was Rinat). And now Zemfira and Renata live and work together. Litvinova made a film about a friend. And Zemfira is working on the music for Renata’s new film “Rita’s Last Fairy Tale.” According to rumors, the stars even got engaged in Holland a year ago. Zemfira's mother Florida Khakievna considers Litvinova her second daughter, and her daughter Ulyana her granddaughter. The actress never tires of confessing her love to the singer.
– I love Zemfira so much! – Renata says without a shadow of embarrassment. – She is actually close to me. She is part of my biography.
The union of two women is complicated only by Zemfira’s wild jealousy, who is haunted by rumors about Litvinova’s affairs with students. The latest scandal occurred due to intimate photos of Litvinova leaked onto the Internet in an embrace with the young actress Renata Piotrovsky. They gossiped about Zemfira's departure, but in vain: the other day the paparazzi again captured Zema leaving Litvinova's house.
