Janna Bullock would prefer if people didn’t connect her with her ex-husband, Alexey Kuznetsov, the former minister of finance for the Moscow region.
The oligarch spent four years behind bars in France while fighting extradition to Russia on charges of swindling $177 million before being released.
But the glamorous socialite, who made a bundle flipping houses on the Upper East Side and the Hamptons, didn’t rush to see her ex when he was released in April with an ankle monitor.
“They’ve been divorced for many years, and she hasn’t seen him in five years,” a friend of Bullock told me.
Their daughter, Eugenia, 21, a student in London, recently visited Kuznetsov in Paris and posted a photo on Instagram of their reunion at a cafe.
Kuznetsov, who fled Russia after a former business associate was murdered, was arrested in St-Tropez in 2013. He was released by an appeals court that found the Russian authorities had failed to make their case in a “reasonable timeframe.”
Bullock, who was also accused by the Kremlin of misdeeds, has always maintained her innocence.
“My name was covered in dirt,” she said in a 2012 interview. “Just because I did better than others, somebody had the appetite to take it all away from me?”