“I know Grechin, he has a fetish related to photos, he loves to take millions of photos,” he said. His birthday was in January, and he said Grechin had invited him to last week’s event – but he did not go. They were at my birthday party in Dubai.” “I know some of the girls, not all who were there, but some of them,” he admitted to TSN. Meanwhile, an associate of Grechin’s, French millionaire Stephane Clavel, 44, has denied being present in Dubai for the shoot. Separately a report said that a number of the group of models in Dubai had refused to undress for the naked shoot.Ī picture shows Grechin playing the piano in the Dubai apartment surrounded by 21 naked women in the apartment where the offending pictures and footage were made. One said: “I was told not to show my face for a while, or it will be worse. Picture: InstagramĪ Russian IT company boss Alexey Kontsov, 33, allegedly involved in the balcony picture, also remains in detention in Dubai.Īnother eight Ukrainian women were allowed to fly home but have not spoken about the video and photographs which sparked an international incident. His friend Kontsov, 33, returned to Russia last week as did participant Anastasia Fursova, 25.The women are apparently still in custody more than a week on. Grechin said the legal and jail systems in Dubai were ‘borderline barbaric’. But there was no ill intent.”Īmong the group with him in Dubai was Vogue model Evgenia Taran, 21, who said: ‘I made a lot of conclusions, realised my mistakes, and to some extent (I am) grateful for what happened.’Īnother, trained lawyer Yana Graboshchuk, 27, complained they had been treated like ‘animals’ in jail. Vitaliy adds: “The girls showed a lack of responsibility. But prosecutors instead deported the women, banning them from Dubai for five years. Vitaliy and Kontsov were held on suspicion of being involved in prostitution and pornography.Ī dozen of the women were detained the next day. The following day, half the party, including photographer Ten, flew back to Eastern Europe. Vitaliy adds: “They were private photos of a private group of friends. These photos went viral too, provoking the ire of the Dubai authorities. The images were shared on the party’s private WhatsApp group before an unknown person leaked them to social media. He reveals: “I was playing Beethoven and Mozart, classical piano. Inside the flat, the now-famous image of the Butt Squad’s bare bottoms was taken and another of the women as Vitaliy played piano. They’re the ones producing the pornography and distributing it, not us.” He says: “We have no idea who filmed it or why. Vitaliy says an unknown neighbour in a block overlooking Kontsov’s flat then filmed the women and uploaded the images to social media. “It wasn’t intended to be a publicity stunt. I organised the trip but not the shoot because there was no shoot. “It wasn’t planned or premeditated,” he insists. The group spent that day at a swimming pool and a restaurant before going to Russian IT boss Alexei Kontsov’s penthouse in the upmarket Marina district.Īfter stripping off their swimwear, Vitaliy says, some of the women went on to the balcony to take a photo with the dramatic view. He says he throws similar trips to exotic destinations each month. Vitaliy paid for the women and Russian photographer Alexander Ten to go on the Dubai jaunt. The now-famous pictures were posted on social media late on April 3 in Conservative Dubai where an estimated 30,000 call girls and escorts ply their trade. He admits sleeping with two of the Butt Squad, explaining: “I’ve had sexual relations with two of these girls. If we had other guys coming over, if these girls were prostituting, it would all show up.” But we are talking about a bunch of very young, excited, open-minded, regular girls who have nothing to do with escorting, modelling or anything else. The father of one told The Sun: “What the girls did is wrong, based on the laws of Dubai. Vitaliy insists his Butt Squad are just “friends” and not involved in prostitution - nor was the balcony pose a publicity stunt or promotion of any sort. Saddled with a six-figure legal bill to sort out the mess, he says of the isolation facility: “It’s not a prison but I can’t leave the room and everything I do is monitored.” Speaking to The Sun correspondent via mobile phone, he reveals he tested positive for Covid while being held for around 20 days behind bars, before he too was released without charge.Īlthough showing no symptoms, he says he is locked away in a ten-day enforced quarantine before hopefully leaving Dubai next week. Today Vitaliy languishes in Dubai - long after his female associates were deported. He says: “I’m much more than a few naked girls on a balcony.” Adding further intrigue, he claims he met Obama at the White House, served with US Army Intelligence and donated to the Democratic Party.
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