Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has fathered four children since 2021, two with a college student and two registered to his cousin

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska has fathered at least four children since 2021. Two of them are listed as having been born to the oligarch’s cousin, and two others were born to a Bauman Moscow State Technical University student — who was 19 when she began her relationship with the oligarch, according to a report by the investigative project All Exclusive.

Civil registry records from the Ust-Labinsk District of Russia’s Krasnodar Krai show Deripaska listed as the father of two sons (born in 2021 and 2024) and two daughters (born in 2023 and 2024). All carry the businessman’s last name and patronymic (“Olegovich” or “Olegovna”). According to All Exclusive, the mother of the older two is identified in documents as Viktoria Brazhnik, Deripaska’s cousin. Brazhnik’s father, Alexei Yezubov, is an MP in the State Duma from the ruling United Russia party and is the brother of Deripaska’s mother, Valentina Deripaska.

Brazhnik would have been 49 and 51 at the time of the births. All Exclusive suggests Deripaska may have simply fabricated documents in order to avoid listing the biological mother on the birth certificate, thereby depriving her of any claim to financial support. According to the outlet, Klavdia Lursmanashvili gave birth to twins by Deripaska in August last year.

All Exclusive also details high-end apartments worth more than 700 million rubles ($8.7 million) that were registered to the oligarch’s new companion — and to his cousin.

Earlier reports by the independent Russian outlets Important Stories and Verstka revealed that Deripaska’s name appeared in a criminal case against pimps who lured schoolgirls into prostitution. Deripaska was one of the clients of this group (though it remains unknown whether any of the girls who had relations with him were minors).

Oleg Deripaska has been actively suing independent Russian media that publish information about his involvement in corruption schemes and sanctions evasion. The oligarch has already filed lawsuits against The Insider’s editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov and its investigative journalist Sergei Ezhov. The first was filed in February this year, while the second was filed in early August, according to a report by independent outlet in exile Mediazona.

Deripaska’s past relations with sex workers was documented by the late Alexei Navalny in 2018.