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Since his shattering divorce from Katie Holmes in 2012, Tom Cruise didn't seem to find the right fit.
Except that the time of celibacy would indeed be over for the 61-year-old actor, who would have (finally) found love in the arms of the Russian Elsina Khayrova.
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Aged 36, “the lucky one” would be the daughter of a Russian MP close to Vladimir Putin, and ex-wife of the oligarch and diamond merchant Dmitry Tsvetkov, with whom she had two children, revealed the
Daily Mail
in December.
From what the very informed tabloid knows, the separation was recorded last year after more than ten years of marriage.
It would be Elsina Khayrova who would have asked her husband for divorce, triggering the start of a legal battle which was settled before the High Court in London, where the couple resided.
It must be said that the division of property is a headache, given the wealth that the Tsvetkov-Khayrovas had amassed.
Together, they shared a plethora of homes including a £22 million (more than €25 million) mansion in Surrey, five apartments in London worth a total of £18 million (€21 million), but also properties in Dubai and Cyprus estimated at 2 million pounds (2.34 million euros).
In addition to real estate, the couple owned collections of luxury cars, including Ferraris and Bentleys, jewelry and works of art, including some by Auguste Renoir and Marc Chagall, we learn in the
Times
.
A heritage that is enough to make you lose your senses, especially when it comes to parting with it.
Elsina Khayrova's divorce from Dmitry Tsvetkov made headlines in the press this summer, after the young woman was accused of having concealed significant assets from her ex-husband, notably by failing to mention its large handbag collection, made up of more than 150 bags worth almost a million pounds sterling (1.1 million euros).
“Inseparable”
Followed by nearly 20,000 subscribers on Instagram, the thirty-year-old divorcee - formerly a model - now seems to be playing the influence game, posing in each of her destinations, whether in Paris, Venice, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Qatar and even California.
But above all, Elsina Khayrova would have found love again with Tom Cruise.
In any case, the star recently almost made her affair with the thirty-year-old almost official in London.
Both would have, in fact, gone to a party organized in the Mayfair district on December 9.
“They were inseparable, they were clearly a couple,” said a witness in the columns of the English tabloid.
He seemed crazy about her.”
A few days later, on December 15, Tom Cruise went big by renting an entire floor of a restaurant in London, the Novikov, to be able to have a one-on-one dinner with his new conquest.
The Italian-Japanese establishment, one of the most expensive in the city, notably offers a menu for 500 pounds (around 600 euros) in the form of an iodized culinary experience, composed of a lobster dish and other seafood, followed by elaborate sushi.
“Tom seemed very in love and was drinking in Elsina’s words,” a source then confided to
the
Sun.
They seemed very close.”
Meeting in London
For its part,
Us Weekly
claimed that the couple were very much in love, with the actor being “extremely confident” about the sustainability of their relationship.
The American weekly, obviously well informed, added at the same time that the relationship between Tom Cruise and Elsina Khayrova had been going on for “some time”, although they had decided not to make it public until December.
“They spent time at Tom's favorite private club and regularly have tea or dinner at prestigious London restaurants,” a source said about the couple's daily life.
Thus, the star of
Top Gun
would have “become very popular within the high society of London, and what was a friendship quickly transformed into something more special”, added a witness.
Suggesting that the 36-year-old Russian, resident in the English capital, is part of this circle where she met Tom Cruise.
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For now, this “special” love does not seem to bother Isabella, 31, and Connor, 29, the actor’s eldest children: “[They] find Elsina great and are very happy to see their father in love again,”
an observer confirms to
Us Weekly .
And added: “Tom Cruise wanted to take his time and not rush for nothing.”
It just goes to show that everything comes in time to those who wait.