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'Russian Paris Hilton' who appeared on iconic Pulp album cover has link to Putin
Ksenia Sobchak is a Russian journalist and liberal politician, but is also known as the scantily-clad blonde woman on the cover of Pulp's 1998 release This Is Hardcore
A woman who appeared on Pulp’s iconic This Is Hardcore album cover and was once dubbed Russia's Paris Hilton has a chilling link to Vladimir Putin.
Ksenia Sobchak – a former Playboy model – can be seen on the 1998 Britpop release seductively lying face-down on a red bed while topless. The daughter of major Putin ally Anatoliĭ Aleksandrovich Sobchak, she ditched the party lifestyle in the noughties and remodelled herself into a journalist and liberal politician. In 2018 she ran against Putin in place of the late Alexei Navalny.
Navalny accused her of being a “Kremlin stooge” who was only put in the race as an “illusion of democracy”, saying at the time: “I am realistic about who will be President”.
Sobchak’s father has been pointed to as the man who helped ‘launch’ Russian despot Putin’s political career in the 1990s. The model is reportedly Putin's god-daughter and the pair have known each other since before the millennia.
In early February 2022, the former model wrote that “Putin looked like a mature, decent politician” amid the “hysteria in American newspapers.”
When the despot invaded Ukraine later on that month, she posted a black square on Instagram, captioned: “We are all locked in this situation now. There is no way out.”
Sobchak and Putin have reportedly only seen each other once since the war started – in a press conference in late 2022. Sobchak was recognised by Mad Vlad, who signalled at her knowingly when she asked a question to him.
She didn’t use the opportunity to grill Putin about the war, instead quizzing him on prison torture.
Sobchak is seen as a totemic figure of the Putin era: a celebrity influencer and media entrepreneur whose rise in popularity has mirrored Putin’s increase of international notoriety.
During a conversation with her 9.5million Instagram fans about the conflict, Sobchak: “I believe that this is a horrific situation, but we’re going to get through this time, we’ll get through it together with our audience.”
Although Sobchak has never openly supported the conflict with Ukraine, she never emigrated from her home when Putin began shutting down independent media outlets.
She said doing so would have meant becoming a stranger in a foreign land “who must constantly castigate, blame and apologise for their own country.”
During a YouTube video she posted in 2023, Sobchak said: “We decided to stay here, but also to follow the laws… There are some things that I can’t say directly, and some that, unfortunately, I can’t say at all.”
Sobchak was once named the 22nd most influential woman in Russia and has been described as the "Russian equivalent of Paris Hilton”.
Daily Star Sunday
Ksenia Sobchak is a Russian journalist and liberal politician, but is also known as the scantily-clad blonde woman on the cover of Pulp's 1998 release This Is Hardcore
A woman who appeared on Pulp’s iconic This Is Hardcore album cover and was once dubbed Russia's Paris Hilton has a chilling link to Vladimir Putin.
Ksenia Sobchak – a former Playboy model – can be seen on the 1998 Britpop release seductively lying face-down on a red bed while topless. The daughter of major Putin ally Anatoliĭ Aleksandrovich Sobchak, she ditched the party lifestyle in the noughties and remodelled herself into a journalist and liberal politician. In 2018 she ran against Putin in place of the late Alexei Navalny.
Navalny accused her of being a “Kremlin stooge” who was only put in the race as an “illusion of democracy”, saying at the time: “I am realistic about who will be President”.
Sobchak’s father has been pointed to as the man who helped ‘launch’ Russian despot Putin’s political career in the 1990s. The model is reportedly Putin's god-daughter and the pair have known each other since before the millennia.
In early February 2022, the former model wrote that “Putin looked like a mature, decent politician” amid the “hysteria in American newspapers.”
When the despot invaded Ukraine later on that month, she posted a black square on Instagram, captioned: “We are all locked in this situation now. There is no way out.”
Sobchak and Putin have reportedly only seen each other once since the war started – in a press conference in late 2022. Sobchak was recognised by Mad Vlad, who signalled at her knowingly when she asked a question to him.
She didn’t use the opportunity to grill Putin about the war, instead quizzing him on prison torture.
Sobchak is seen as a totemic figure of the Putin era: a celebrity influencer and media entrepreneur whose rise in popularity has mirrored Putin’s increase of international notoriety.
During a conversation with her 9.5million Instagram fans about the conflict, Sobchak: “I believe that this is a horrific situation, but we’re going to get through this time, we’ll get through it together with our audience.”
Although Sobchak has never openly supported the conflict with Ukraine, she never emigrated from her home when Putin began shutting down independent media outlets.
She said doing so would have meant becoming a stranger in a foreign land “who must constantly castigate, blame and apologise for their own country.”
During a YouTube video she posted in 2023, Sobchak said: “We decided to stay here, but also to follow the laws… There are some things that I can’t say directly, and some that, unfortunately, I can’t say at all.”
Sobchak was once named the 22nd most influential woman in Russia and has been described as the "Russian equivalent of Paris Hilton”.
Daily Star Sunday