In many respects, Elizaveta Krivonogikh, 21, looks like any other glamorous rich young expat living it up in the fashion capitals of the world. Think Emily in Paris, the Russian version. The former student and occasional disc jockey once posted pictures of herself to social media pouting in designer clothes. For a long time, she didn’t show her face in her Instagram feed, and when she did, it was clear why. Her uncanny resemblance to her famous father is impossible to miss.
This week, the Ukrainian television station TSN disclosed more details about Elizaveta, who also goes by the name Luiza Rozova. She is understood to be Vladimir Putin’s secret illegitimate daughter, the result of his affair in the 1990s with shop cleaner-turned-multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh.