Paramount+ to Premiere Doc on Russian Oligarchs’ Wives

Secrets of the Oligarch Wives, produced by Blink Films and See It Now Studios, is slated to premiere on Paramount+ on June 28.

The partners of the billionaires who put Russian President Vladimir Putin in charge risk everything to tell the truth about a vengeful tyrant who sees treachery at every turn, forgives nothing and settles every score. They tell stories of corruption, betrayal and suspected murder.

Executive producers of the 90-minute documentary are Justine Kershaw, Laura Jones and David McNab for Blink Films and Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong for See It Now Studios. Lynsey Neale is head of production.

“Whenever you make a contract with the devil, there will be consequences,” Tatiana Fokina, whose partner Yevegny Chichvarkin was once worth over $1.5 billion, revealed in the documentary. “If you deal with the dark side, it will come to haunt you later.”

“Going to Russia now would be suicide for me,” Fokina added, saying that she knows what she’s said would get her thrown in jail.

“Putin would much prefer to have been an oligarch than to have been president,” said Alexandra Tolstoy, whose partner is oligarch Sergei Pugachev, once estimated to be worth $2 billion, and who was known as Putin’s “banker” until he fled into exile in London.