Potanina has prepared subpoenas for Altpoint’s portfolio that includes prominent U.S. companies owned by Potanin, including Ford Models, the agency that earlier represented Christie Brinkley, Bar Refaeli, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan.
The subpoenas require Altpoint Chief Financial Officer Eric Chan and Managing Director Yuki Narula to testify in a deposition and hand over 13 categories of documents, including emails regarding the location of Potanin’s assets and income he has made in recent years.
According to Natalia Potanina, “My husband has told me that unless I voluntarily accept his oral promises regarding support, he will make sure that I receive nothing,” she said in a sworn declaration filed in U.S. court. “I consider his terms grossly unfair.”
Potanina and her lawyers say Russian law entitles her to half of the couple’s “marital property,” including “significant assets” inside the United States. A hearing on the divorce is set for Feb. 25 in Moscow.
U.S. law says “any interested person” — even someone overseas — can seek relevant testimony and documents from someone inside the United States for a proceeding outside the country.
Potanina is currently living in the United States, after undergoing surgery at a U.S. medical facility. It is unclear where the couple’s three children, 2 adults and 1 teenager, are living.
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Source: Divorce of One of World’s Richest Men Entangles American Execs, Mike Levine, ABC News, February 10, 2014
