The popular director, general director of the Mosfilm film studio Karen Shakhnazarov was married 3 times. With his first wife, he lived only six months, it was in his youth.
His second wife was Elena Setunskaya, better known as TV presenter Alena Zander. 2 years after the wedding, the couple’s daughter, Anna, was born. But their marriage fell apart.
Shakhnazarov could not cope with his popularity and the presence of a whole army of fans, so he began to cheat. Elena didn’t want to take it. She took Anna with her and went to the USA. There she met a Hollywood producer and became his wife. The director was able to see his daughter Anna again only after 20 years.
It is curious that Karen still wonders why Elena left him and took her daughter, they say, “it was still fine.” Having met with Anna, he realized that she was already quite an adult, and such a stranger. He got to know his daughter again. The girl was raised as an American.
By the way, once Anna began to own an 86-meter apartment in the very center of Moscow, on the Patriarch’s Ponds. And now it turned out that Shakhnazarov started a lawsuit in order to take possession of at least half of this housing. Like, he always paid taxes and utility bills for housing while it was empty.
