Elena Zhukova

Elena was married to Alexander Zhukova for three years around the early 1980s. Their daughter, Dasha Zhukova, is the ex-wife of oil billionaire and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, frequently described as a politically connected Russian oligarch. The New York Times, which described Zhukova as a former molecular biologist who had worked at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her marital history is less well documented. She met her first husband, Mr. Zhukov, now a British citizen, when both were students in the Soviet Union. Their marriage, during which they had a daughter, the entrepreneur and socialite Dasha Zhukova, lasted three years.