They walked down the aisle after 15 years of dating. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan it was 80 and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya- 36. Of course, evil tongues predicted a short life for this union, but in the first months after the registry office it seemed that the newlyweds were happy. Everything changed a year later: the People's Artist of the USSR accused his newly-made wife of robbing him completely, and he intends to sue, and before that Vitalina went to the police with a statement about the kidnapping of her husband, who was allegedly in an inadequate state. A romantic love story that began many years ago ended in a banal scandal and, apparently, is headed for divorce.

First meeting

The future spouses first met in 1994, when Dzhigarkhanyan was on tour in Kyiv. 15-year-old Vitalina approached the famous actor for an autograph, joining the impressive army of the artist’s fans: she read all of Armen Borisovich’s interviews, watched films with his participation, and attended performances. A closer acquaintance with the idol took place 6 years later. The girl gave Dzhigarkhanyan a note through her friend who worked in the theater. The actor called her and invited her to come to the dressing room for a cup of tea before the performance. The conversation between them developed from the first seconds. They were brought together by music: Vitalina studied piano at the conservatory, Armen Borisovich was well versed in classical music. But after a heartfelt conversation, they parted again and met only when the girl finally moved to Moscow.

Up the career ladder

In 2008, Dzhigarkhanyan invited Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya to become the head of the musical department in his theater; she selected the musical design for performances. Literally a year later, Armen Borisovich had a stroke. Although the actor was married then, he lived alone, since his wife Tatyana Vlasova By that time, she was firmly established in America and practically never came to the capital. Dzhigarkhanyan often ate at the theater buffet and, like many other creative people, did not take care of his health. One day he forgot to take a drug that the doctor prescribed for him and ended up in a hospital bed. Then Vitalina took care of the artist into her own hands. After some time, Armen Borisovich returned to work in the theater and even appeared on stage in the premiere play “The Theater of the Times of Nero and Seneca.”

Attentive and...young

Vitalina said more than once in interviews that the romance between her and Dzhigarkhanyan did not begin immediately. There were too many obstacles on the way to family happiness: an impressive age difference, different social status. In addition, it was difficult for the famous actor to believe in the sincerity of the girl’s intentions. But Vitalina’s attention prevailed, and soon they became a real couple. The lovers were constantly together: at home, at work and at social events.

The more than 40-year age difference between Dzhigarkhanyan and his new passion, of course, gave rise to many rumors about the latter’s selfish plans. But one nuance cast doubt on the accusations of spiteful critics: Armen Borisovich was officially married to another woman, which means that if something happened, all his property would go to his legal wife. However, in 2016, the actor decided to put an end to his relationship with Tatyana Vlasova, which lasted almost fifty years, and marry Vitalina.

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There might not have been a wedding

Dzhigarkhanyan proposed marriage at the premiere of “A Christmas Story” at the Mariinsky Theater in January 2016, and the wedding took place in February. As Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya said in one of her interviews, she proposed setting a registration date for March, since it was in this month that the couple met. However, Armen Borisovich told her that he could not wait that long.

On the eve of the wedding, the actor was hospitalized. Vitalina was not completely sure that the wedding would take place. But on day X, the loving groom ran away from the doctors and finally came to the registry office. The ceremony was modest, without lavish feasts and festivities. Having become husband and wife, the newlyweds went to the theater.

After the stamp

It seemed that Armen Borisovich’s family life was a real idyll. However, in October 2017, news appeared in the press that Dzhigarkhanyan was hiding from his young wife in the hospital, accusing her of theft and flatly refusing to let Vitalina into his room.

Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya herself interprets this unpleasant story differently. The woman claims that her husband is very ill and was abducted, and she did not know about his whereabouts for several days, so she contacted the police.

Friend of Dzhigarkhanyan Arthur Soghomyan, who helped the artist go to the hospital, claims that serious disputes arose between the spouses not only on financial grounds, because the girl allegedly transferred all her husband’s property to herself, but also on creative grounds. In 2015, Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya took the position of general director of the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and began to implement productions on its stage that her husband did not like. And when the scandal broke out, she even issued an order according to which Armen Borisovich was forbidden to cross the threshold of his own theater.

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After Dzhigarkhanyan’s “escape”, the spouses do not communicate and, apparently, there is no point in talking about reconciliation of the parties, since Armen Borisovich announced his desire to divorce Vitalina and deprive her of her position. Alas, even the third marriage did not become truly happy for the actor.

Love has no boundaries. Sometimes, even a huge age difference does not stop people from taking such a serious step as marriage. In society, such couples are often treated with condemnation. Most often this concerns public people whose lives are in plain sight. Their relationship becomes the subject of heated discussions, mistrust and sincere feelings. But it seems that the lovers themselves are not interested in outside opinions.

1. Ivan Krasko and Natalya Shevel

Age difference - 60 years

24-year-old Natalya Shevel met her future husband at the St. Petersburg Institute of Humanitarian Education, where she was a student and her fiancé taught. But he turned out to be not a shy graduate student, but 84-year-old People's Artist of Russia Ivan Krasko! The age difference between the spouses has discouraged many, but the lovers themselves do not pay attention to the gossip and continue to assure gossipers that they are happy.

2.Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris

Age difference - 60 years

Five years ago, the 85-year-old Playboy founder announced his engagement to 25-year-old model Crystal Harris. The engagement lasted two years, during which the lovers even managed to quarrel and cancel the wedding, but later changed their minds and still went down the aisle.

3.Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya

Age difference - 45 years

About the affair of the 79-year-old actor with 34-year-old Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, musical director of the Moscow Drama Theater. Dzhigarkhanyan, has been known for a long time. Dzhigarkhanyan left his wife Tatyana Vlasova six years ago, but he decided to formalize the divorce only now, on the eve of his anniversary. The actor’s novel caused a lot of noise not only in the press, but also in his theater, where Dzhigarkhanyan was recently the director. After Armen Borisovich gave his position to Vitalina, many actors quit. However, the artist and his muse seem to care little about this. The lovers settled in an apartment near Moscow, where they enjoy each other's company.

4. Andrei Konchalovsky and Yulia Vysotskaya

Age difference - 36 years

For 17 years now, Andrei Konchalovsky has been happy with his fourth wife, actress and cook Yulia Vysotskaya, who is younger than the eldest son of her husband, director Yegor Konchalovsky.

5. Ronnie Wood and Sally Humphreys

Age difference - 31 years

In 2008, Ronnie Wood, guitarist for The Rolling Stones, split from his wife Jo after 23 years of marriage for Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, but the relationship between the old rocker and the fickle Katya did not last long. Three years after his affair with Katya, Wood married for the third time. His new chosen one was 34-year-old Sally Humphreys, a theater producer.

6.Clint Eastwood and Christina Sandera

Age difference - 33 years

Immediately after his divorce from his wife Dina, who was 35 years younger than him, the actor and director found solace in the arms of a new girlfriend - and again much younger than himself. Now 85-year-old Eastwood lives with Christina Sandera, the administrator of the Mission Ranch hotel owned by the star.

7.Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn

Age difference - 35 years

Woody Allen lived in a civil marriage with actress Mia Farrow for 12 years. The couple had a common son, Ronan, and the couple also took two adopted children, Dylan and Moses. The reason for the breakup between Allen and Farrow was the director’s affair with the adopted daughter of actress Soon-Yi Previn, whom she had previously adopted along with her ex-husband. At that time, the girl was 22 years old, and Allen was 57 years old. In 1997, Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen got married and also adopted two girls. By the way, Soon-Yi Previn admits that she never treated Woody Allen as a father, and all the talk about her being his daughter makes her laugh. Mia Farrow does not agree with her, who, after breaking up with Allen, accused him of molesting her daughter and forbade him to communicate with the rest of the children.

8. Al Pacino and Lucila Sola

Age difference - 39 years

In March of this year, confirmed bachelor Al Pacino surprised fans with the announcement that he was going to marry his Argentine girlfriend, actress Lucila Sola. Pacino has been dating her for about five years and notes that a wedding is possible - because the actor never says “never.”

9.Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina

Age difference - 30 years

Tabakov met his future wife in 1986, when the young GITIS graduate was accepted into the troupe of Oleg Tabakov’s theater studio (the actor was 51 years old). After ten years of romance, the teacher and student got married, and then became the parents of two children: Pavel, who also began an acting career, and Maria, whom Zudina gave birth to at the age of 41.

10.Alexander Gradsky and Marina Kotashenko

Age difference - 32 years

The 65-year-old composer and 33-year-old actress have been together for 12 years, and last year the young wife gave birth to a son from Gradsky, named Alexander in honor of his father. True, the musician is in no hurry to marry his beauty.

11.Roberto Cavalli and Lina Nilsson

Age difference - 47 years

The young model Lina became a muse for the designer and the beginning of a second youth after his divorce from Eva Dühringer. He met the beautiful Cavalli when she was only 20 years old, and, despite the couturier’s age, young Lina lost her head over him.

12. Bari Alibasov and Victoria Maksimova

Age difference - 40 years

The producer met his sixth wife at work: 25-year-old Victoria was Alibasov’s assistant. Despite the fact that the legendary creator of the Na-Na group proposed live on NTV, the wedding was a secret.

13.Alexander Gordon and Nozanin Abdulvasieva

Age difference - 30 years

At the time of his acquaintance with 20-year-old VGIK student Nozanin Abdulvasieva, Gordon already had a reputation as a lover of young girls: the journalist had a divorce behind him from Nina Shchipilova, who was also 30 years younger than her husband, and from Katya Gordon, who was 15 years younger than Alexander . Nozanin became Gordon's fourth official wife and the mother of his third child.

Vitalina Viktorovna Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. Born on December 8, 1978 in Kyiv. Former general director of the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Ex-wife of actor Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya is the surname of her maternal great-grandmother.

Parents are engineers and worked in design institutes. Later, my father went into business.

From an early age she studied music. She graduated from a music school with a degree in piano.

After graduating from school, she studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. Laureate of the international competition in Paris.

From her youth, she said, she was in love with the actor.

As Vitalina said, she first saw him in a play in 1994, when the Mayakovsky Theater was touring in Kyiv. Dzhigarkhanyan played in two productions: “The Last Victim” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” “Armen Borisovich made an indelible impression on me. I was about 16 years old, I was still in school. Then I tried to go to all the performances that Dzhigarkhanyan came to Kyiv with. Mostly these were enterprises. As a rule, Armen Borisovich always visited once a year in Ukraine,” she shared.

They met in 2000. Vitalina was 21 years old, she was just graduating from the National Academy of Music in Kyiv. They were brought together by a friend of Vitalina, who worked at the Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater as an administrator. Vitalina wrote a note to Dzhigarkhanyan, and her friend gave it to the actor. Dzhigarkhanyan called her back and offered to drive up to the theater.

It is not known whether Armen Dzhigarkhanyan had a hand in this, but since 2001, Vitalina ended up in Moscow, where she entered the Maimonides State Classical Academy.

By the way, soon after Vitalina, her parents moved closer to Moscow from Kyiv and settled in the near Moscow region.

It is known that in 2002, when the actor fell ill, his sister Marina Borisovna and Vitalina were next to him.

Next, Dzhigarkhanyan decided to stage a musical play and invited Vitalina to work in his theater - learning songs with the actors. And after some time, she already began to manage the musical part of the Moscow Theater under the direction of Dzhigarkhanyan.

Officially, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya has been serving at the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater since 2008. She worked as the head of the musical department, and from June 18, 2015 - director of the Moscow Drama Theater under Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

A number of actors who worked for a long time in the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater accused Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya of actually destroying the theater with her management methods, leaving a significant part of the artists surviving. For example, this was stated by someone who was kicked out of the theater after 14 years of work.

In October 2017, a scandal broke out. First, the actor left his wife with two friends in an unknown direction and stopped picking up the phone. “I haven’t seen him since then, but I spoke to him once. He said he would kill me. I don’t understand anything,” - .

Then she found her husband in one of the Moscow hospitals. However, the couple were never able to see each other. The police who helped pianist Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya find traces of her husband said that they could not do anything: “He just doesn’t want to see you.”

Then information appeared that .

The actor said: “The most difficult thing is that not very good processes happened in my life. I had a wife, like a normal person. Then this woman turned out - either she doesn’t like me, or she doesn’t. I’m talking about Vitalina... Although It seems like nothing was in danger. It’s sad, sad. Vitalina, I have a hard time pronouncing her last name, it brought me a lot of unfair pain. I’m always afraid when people close to me suddenly start coming close to me. Oh, I say, no, “Just a minute. Let me think for myself and make some decision.”... No, I’m not ready to forgive her. Now I’m saying this. Even thinking, I’m confidently saying no. She behaved vilely, she’s not a thief. man... Yes, I'm talking about Vitalin."

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan accused Vitalina Tsimbalyuk-Romanovskaya of theft. Live broadcast

According to Dzhigarkhanyan’s friend Arthur Soghomonyan, a few years ago Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya changed the theater’s charter documents in such a way that, according to the new charter, Armen Borisovich is the artistic director, but all decisions are made by the general director, that is, she.

According to Soghomonyan, Vitalina can even fire Armen Borisovich, but he cannot fire her. According to the artist’s friend, all of Dzhigarkhanyan’s accounts and apartments were also transferred by his wife Vitalina to herself.

After public accusations from Dzhigarkhanyan of theft. At the same time, her representative stated that she bought several apartments that Vitalina owns on her own, even before marriage, so after the divorce they will remain hers.

In January 2018, information appeared about - vice-president of the Academy of Russian Television, member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences EMMI (USA), vice-president of the Council of the Association of Communications Agencies of Russia (AKAR), president of the Transcontinental Media Company.

In the fall of 2018, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya announced an affair with. Many considered this novel a PR stunt. But Vitalina and Prokhor themselves assured that everything was serious with them. “In general, we want children first, and only then a wedding. I believe that you won’t surprise anyone with a wedding now. Vitalina and I are happy, and we’ve been mentally ready for a long time to fulfill parental responsibilities,” Prokhor told reporters.

Vitalina was blackmailed for a long time by publishing intimate photographs. In the end, myself. “I spent quite a long time trying to persuade this blackmailer not to post pictures on the Internet. Each time it was very unpleasant. The pressure seriously intensified after I became a famous public person,” she explained.

In November 2018, a court in Moscow sentenced Armen Dzhigarkhanyan’s ex-wife Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya to 200 hours of correctional labor. In addition, Dzhigarkhanyan’s ex-wife must pay a fine of 200 thousand rubles.

The court found Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya guilty of installing a hidden camera in her husband’s theater office. Later, the recording from this camera was shown on the federal channel. Thus, the secret of Dzhigarkhanyan’s personal life was violated.

If at the end of last year everyone was discussing the divorce of the famous TV presenter Olga Buzova and the promising Lokomotiv football player Dmitry Tarasov, then this year People’s Artist Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and his young ex-wife Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya are not leaving the television screens.

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It seems that almost everyone knows their love story. Vitalina saw Dzhigarkhanyan for the first time when she was only 16 years old and he was almost 60, and fell in love with him. Then the young Ukrainian pianist, having moved to Moscow, began to look for reasons to meet with the People's Artist. She went to his concerts, not forgetting to run into his dressing room for a cup of tea before that... Their friendship became stronger in 2002, when Dzhigarkhanyan had a mini-stroke, and it was Vitalina who was nearby, who selflessly took care of him. They formalized their relationship only in 2016. For 36-year-old Vitalina, this was the first marriage, and for 80-year-old Dzhigarkhanyan, it was the third, and the 44-year age difference did not bother them at all. They were considered one of the exemplary celebrity couples until today.

Now Dzhigarkhanyan, left without money and without housing after a divorce, accuses his now ex-wife of wanting to poison him and is trying to sue her for his apartments. And the enviable bride Vitalina lives in grand style - she goes to elite beauty salons and basks in the rays of her unexpected popularity.

NEWS-R remembered the most famous celebrity couples who, despite the large age difference, are still together and happy.

1. Ivan Krasko and Natalya Shevel (age difference 60 years)

Ivan Krasko met Natalya Shevel at the St. Petersburg Institute of Humanitarian Education, where he lectured to students. Natalya Shevel was his student and literally immediately charmed the people's artist. They got married in 2015. He was 85 years old, she was 25. For Krasko this was already the fourth marriage, and for his student it was the second.

Despite such an impressive age difference, the People's Artist and his young wife are seriously thinking about procreation and have even come up with a name for their future children. If this does happen, the People's Artist will become a father for the sixth time.

The young wife of the People's Artist is periodically accused of leaving for convenience. Although, judging by the latest news, the Krasko couple are barely making ends meet and even refused to celebrate their wedding anniversary due to lack of money. In addition, the actor said that he is not going to promote Natalia into show business. Most likely, Ivan Krasko keeps his word, because Natalya has so far become famous only as “the young wife of the People’s Artist” and nothing else.

2. Composer Vladimir Shainsky and Svetlana Shainskaya (age difference 41 years)

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In second place is the famous children's composer Viktor Shainsky, who recently celebrated his 92nd birthday. With his second wife Svetlana, they have a difference of 41 years.

They met at the Composers' Union, where the girl worked as an accountant. The famous musician - author of songs about Cheburashka, Shapoklyak, Little Raccoon, was 58 years old, and she was not even 18. The tall, beautiful blonde did not immediately pay attention to the composer, who, by the way, was a head shorter than her. But Viktor Shainsky did not back down and over time managed to conquer the girl with his optimism, jokes and rejection of a quiet life. But the decisive thing was a meeting with a gypsy, who predicted for Sveta a happy marriage with a man much older than her and with a name starting with the letter “B”. After that, the girl no longer doubted her choice.

The fortune teller's predictions came true. They have been happily married for more than 30 years, they have two children (a son is 30 years old and a daughter is 26 years old).

Viktor Shainsky himself does not feel older than his wife:

The only thing that gives me away is my wrinkles and baldness,” says the famous composer, laughing.

3. Andrei Konchalovsky and Yulia Vysotskaya (age difference 36 years)

A prominent representative of the Mikhalkov clan, famous film director Andrei Konchalovsky, met the young ambitious actress Yulia Vysotskaya at the Kinotavr festival in 1996. Seeing the 23-year-old girl in the hotel elevator, the 59-year-old director was so fascinated by her that he immediately invited her to dinner. And two days later they flew to Istanbul on vacation together.

Despite the fact that Konchalovsky was still married to his fourth wife, their romance developed very quickly, as did the career of an aspiring actress. Yulia Vysotskaya starred in many films directed by her husband.

She once complained that other directors didn’t even offer her to star in their films, because they knew that she was “Andrei Konchalovsky’s actress,” period.

In addition, Yulia Vysotskaya became famous as an exemplary wife and housewife who teaches all women in the country how to cook deliciously at home - she is the host of culinary shows, as well as the author of numerous books about borscht and pies.

Despite the 36-year age difference, the couple have been happily married for almost 20 years, raising two children and traveling a lot. By the way, fans note that over time, Andrei Konchalovsky and Yulia Vysotskaya became very similar in appearance to each other, and sometimes look like father and daughter.

4. Bari Alibasov and Lena Lenina (age difference 32 years)

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In fourth place are 70-year-old Russian producer Bari Alibasov and his new lover, 38-year-old writer and businesswoman Lena Lenina, to whom he has already proposed marriage. She will become the showman's seventh wife.

The intentions to connect his life with the famous writer are so serious that the producer of the Na-Na group has already transferred his eight-room apartment in Moscow to his new lover.

By the way, the musician’s previous wife was 40 years younger than him. The producer got married to a charming blonde, actress and his PR director Victoria Maksimova in the summer of 2013. A year later, the couple had a son, who turned out to be completely different from Bari Alibasov. He immediately suspected his young wife of cheating and left her. Victoria did not deny and admitted to her husband that her son was indeed not his child.

5. Alexander Gradsky and Marina Kotashenko (age difference 32 years)

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To the question: “Is there love at first sight?” Alexander Gradsky will answer “yes” with confidence. He met his chosen one on the street in 2004. The musician was driving a car and saw a tall, striking blonde with long hair walking along the sidewalk. She so struck him with her beauty that the composer stopped and turned to the stranger with an offer to “touch history.”

The 20-year-old model did not recognize the artist; she did not even know who Gradsky was. But she still took his phone number and called back two weeks later. They have been living happily together for more than ten years, but have still not officially registered their relationship.

In 2014, their son Alexander was born. For the actor, married four times, this was the third child. Marina Kotashenko plunged headlong into motherhood; the wife of the famous musician stopped appearing on the podium and acting in films and is now creating home comfort in their mansion in the Moscow region.

6. Dmitry Dibrov and Polina Nagradova (age difference 31 years)

The famous TV presenter Dmitry Dibrov, known for his love of love, was officially married three times until he met the girl of his dreams - Polina. They met in the showman's hometown of Rostov-on-Don at a beauty contest. The 48-year-old TV presenter was one of the jury members, and 17-year-old Polina was a participant in the competition, which, by the way, she won. Dmitry Dibrov recalls that it was love at first sight.

“I saw in her the mother of my unborn child,” says Dibrov.

After the competition, the famous TV presenter and the young model exchanged phone numbers. After several years of courtship, Dmitry Dibrov proposed to the girl. The happy couple are raising two sons. While Dmitry Dibrov is raffling off three million rubles among show business stars, his young wife is not wasting any time. Polina opened the School of Young Ladies and Gentlemen (a school of aesthetic education) in Moscow, and recently became the winner of the Mrs. Russia 2017 contest, and her husband had absolutely nothing to do with it.

7. Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina (age difference 30 years)

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The famous actor and theater and film director Oleg Tabakov fell madly in love with his 16-year-old GITIS student Marina Zudina as soon as he saw her at the entrance exam. The aspiring actress also fell in love with her 46-year-old teacher, but most likely as a talented actor and director. However, soon she herself did not notice how she began to perceive Oleg Tabakov as a man. There were many trials on their way - they whispered behind their backs, the People's Artist did not want to leave his family because of his children... But their love survived everything. And ten years after the start of their romance, Oleg Tabakov finally divorced his wife and proposed to the young actress. The couple are raising a son and daughter and, despite the large age difference, are happy together.

8. Alexander Gordon and Nozanin Abdulvasieva (age difference 30 years)

Famous actor and TV presenter Alexander Gordon has finally found his happiness. His fourth wife (if you count official unions) was the young actress and aspiring director Nozanin (Noza for short) Abdulvasieva. They met three years ago on the set of the film “The Smart Guy,” in which Alexander got the main role; VGIK student Noza came to the film studio to interview him.

Before this, 53-year-old Alexander Gordon was officially married three times. His first wife was Maria Verdnikova, who gave birth to Alexander’s daughter. After divorcing her, the TV presenter lived for several years in a civil marriage with actress Nana Kiknadze. For the second time, he officially married a TV star, and now a successful lawyer for show business stars, Katya Gordon. His third wife was 18-year-old student Nina Trigorina. However, their marriage broke up after the scandalous news about the birth of the TV presenter’s illegitimate daughter, whose mother was Krasnodar journalist Elena Pashkova.

And so, when Alexander Gordon saw the oriental beauty Noza, he realized that he fell in love at first sight. They married without any fuss in 2014, soon the couple had a son, Alexander, and recently the young wife gave the TV presenter a second heir, Fedor.

9. Maxim Galkin and Alla Pugacheva (age difference 27 years)

The most famous and most exemplary couple in Russian show business. Everyone knows about their relationship, well, or almost everyone...

Their romance began in the early 2000s, at the same time as the young comedian’s rapid career. The aspiring TV presenter was 25 years old, and Alla Pugacheva was 52 years old. Behind her were four marriages and an adult daughter - singer Kristina Orbakaite, by the way, 5 years older than Maxim Galkin.

When their whirlwind romance began, the Diva was still officially married to Philip Kirkorov (the King of Pop, by the way, was 18 years younger than her). Ironically, it was he who introduced Pugacheva and Galkin.

New feelings overwhelmed Alla Pugacheva so much that after almost ten years of marriage she divorced Kirkorov and moved to live with Maxim Galkin. It is worth saying that no one believed in the sincerity of their feelings, not even the singer’s own daughter. Despite all the rumors and gossip that filled the yellow press, in 2011 the star couple played a modest wedding by the standards of Russian show business in a small Moscow restaurant, which cost them about 250 thousand rubles.

In 2013, with the help of a surrogate mother, the couple gave birth to twins - Harry and Lisa, and the son is a copy of little Galkin, and the daughter is like two peas in a pod like her star mother.

Despite the 27-year age difference, Galkin and Pugacheva live in perfect harmony. Recently they even got married, which again caused anger and condemnation among fans, because Pugacheva had already married Kirkorov. But, according to the singer herself, previous marriages were a mistake, and “Masik” (as she calls Maxim Galkin) is her true love.

10. Vladimir Kuzmin and Ekaterina Trofimova (age difference 27 years)

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The famous rock musician Vladimir Kuzmin found his happiness only in his third marriage. The singer’s third wife was his fan, 27 years younger than him. They met in Anapa in 1999. The artist and his group were relaxing in a cafe on the embankment, and 18-year-old student Katya Trofimova came up to take his autograph. The beauty and grace of the tall blonde so struck the 45-year-old rock star that he stared after her for a long time. It was love at first sight. Then there were constant phone calls, meetings from the university (the artist’s future wife studied as an economist in Moscow), dates under the moon and declarations of love. And one day a girl came out of her house and saw a giant inscription on the fence: “Katya, marry me!”

No one believed in their love, not even the parents of the musician’s chosen one. Nevertheless, Vladimir Kuzmin and Ekaterina Trofimova have been married for more than 15 years and are happy with each other.

Over his long, more than eighty-year life, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was married three times. All his wives were different from one another, and the fate of each of them developed differently.

The artist's double tragedy

The first wife of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was the actress of the Yerevan Russian Theater. Stanislavsky, Alla Vannovskaya. Dzhigarkhonyan was also enrolled in the same theater. He was struck by the extraordinary beauty of the young woman, and Anna reciprocated his feelings.

The couple lived for six years, but they did not bring much joy to Dzhigarkhanyan. Alla was explosive, hysterical and painfully jealous. They say that in a fit of jealousy she rushed into a fight.

In 1964, Alla Vannovskaya gave birth to a daughter, Elena. Childbirth complicated Alla’s already precarious health, and doctors diagnosed her with a mental illness - chorea(Dance of St. Vitus). Unable to bear it, Dzhigarkhonyan took his one-year-old daughter and filed for divorce.

They say that when Dzhigarkhanyan moved to Moscow, Alla Vannovskaya committed suicide. According to another version, she died in a psychiatric hospital.

Later, the artist’s mother helped raise Elena, and then, when he got back on his feet in Moscow, the actor took her in with him. Elena wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps, and rehearsed the play “Sunset” with her father. Shortly before the premiere, Elena was found asleep in a car with her boyfriend. What was it - an accident or a double suicide! This question remains unanswered.

It is only known that Elena had a relationship with a young man, and the famous dad was against his daughter’s choice. Only once in an interview did Dzhigarkhanyan say, “ It's my fault».

Marriage of forty years

Dzhigarkhanyan lived with his second wife Tatyana Vlasova for more than forty years. He met her at the same Yerevan Russian Theater, where she went to serve as head of the literary department. She stood on the porch of the theater, thin, in black stockings, and smoked a long cigarette with a cigarette holder. Seeing her, the actor realized that this was his woman.

She was married to the director of the theater in which Dzhigarkhanyan served. Tatyana gave birth to a son, Stepan, in marriage with her husband, but the couple no longer lived together. Nevertheless, Dzhigarkhanyan did not dare to court, he simply admired from afar. One day a girl complained that nothing made her happy. " There is a proven way - you need to fall in love", advised the artist. Tatyana told the actor some time later that she followed this advice. So she confessed her love for the artist.

The young couple signed in a hurry, without even having time to buy rings. The actor put his grandmother's wedding ring on the bride's finger.

Soon Lenkom actress Olga Yakovleva came to their theater. Impressed by working with Dzhigarkhanyan in the play “104 Pages about Love,” she invited Armen to move to Moscow. To play at Lenkom, with Efros himself - who could resist such an offer? Tatyana also had a desire to move to the capital.

Interesting notes:

They lived in a small room in the basement of the theater without amenities, but were so passionate about each other that they did not notice the difficulties.

Dzhigarkhanyan’s relationship with Tatyana’s son Stepan did not work out. They remained strangers. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, but did not work in his specialty. Dzhigarkhanyan did everything possible for his stepson- bought an apartment, set up his own theater, which he organized in 1996. Stepan also did not stay long at his stepfather’s theater; he was fired for gross violation of labor discipline.

And suddenly, in the nineties, the artist’s wife expressed a desire to move to the USA. By that time, Dzhigarkhanyan had received American citizenship. Dzhigarkhanyan himself did not want to move overseas. He stayed in Russia, where his work, language, his theater are.

For fifteen years the couple lived on opposite sides of the ocean, Dzhigarkhanyan spent only two months a year in America. He complained that Tatyana was not at all interested in his life, health, or affairs. He fully supported his wife, paying all his bills and needs. A void formed next to the artist himself, and, as you know, a holy place is never empty. A third woman appeared in his life.

I was just nearby

Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya was born in the late 70s in Kyiv, where she graduated from the Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. In 2001, she moved to Moscow, where she continued her education at the Maimonides State Classical Academy.

The girl was a longtime fan of Armen Dzhigarkhonyan, back in her youth, in Kyiv, she attended a performance with his participation and received an autograph from the star’s hands. Since then, she dreamed of meeting the actor, looked for meetings, looked for phone numbers.

She managed to meet her idol in person. They met sometimes and had lunch together. Vitalina was then teaching at the Jewish Academy, and Dzhigarkhanyan invited her to work in his theater. The woman first worked there as an accompanist, then headed the musical department.

In 2001, Dzhigarkhonyan suffered a mini-stroke, and a devoted fan was next to the actor's sister. Meanwhile, his legal wife lived quietly in the United States, and supposedly did not even know about his illness. According to one version, Armen himself did not tell her, because he forbade calling his wife from America, but always called himself. Vitalina supported the middle-aged man in every possible way and looked after him.

Photo by Armen Dzhigarkhonyan and Vitalina

There are very contradictory rumors about Vitalina, that with her arrival intrigues appeared in the theater, that she influences the distribution of roles and is guilty of the dismissal of a number of leading actors and other theater workers. Since 2015, the girl took the position of theater director, and she is also blamed for the departure of the previous director.

Dzhigarkhanyan divorced Tatyana Vlasova, and in 2016 married Vitalina. He cannot answer the direct question of why she hooked him. " If you know the answers to all the questions, then you are from KVN", he says.

In the fall of 2017, a scandal began around the marriage of Armen and Vitalina. The couple divorced, and their divorce proceedings and all its ensuing consequences were discussed in detail in the episodes of Let Them Talk and Live. After the divorce, all of the actor’s real estate went to his ex-wife.

A video appeared on the Internet where Armen calls Vitalina “cheap” and swears at the girl, demanding to pour him more whiskey. On the show, Vitalina did not tell the reason for the scandal. Dzhigarkhanyan’s ex-wife said that she felt unnecessary in this relationship.

The episodes also discussed Vitalina’s possible pregnancy and her involvement in the embezzlement case at the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater. During all the proceedings, Olga Martynova supported Vitalina.