Marina Kotashenko. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 19The marriage of the musician and singer Alexander Gradsky with Marina Kotashenko was invalid, his cousin Natalya Gradskaya said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. A relative of the late artist calls the situation with the robbery of his widow a «setup.» «You forced a sick person to marry you. And in general, what kind of love moved if Sasha (Alexander Gradsky. — Approx. ed.) died? What kind of love, where was she? He was dying alone in the apartment. This is all nonsense, I don’t believe it. Even disgusting!» — Gradskaya said. The woman believes that Kotashenko acted on the instructions of the «mentors» out of selfish interests.
"On the thief and the hat is on fire. A young girl, not yet inherited, still in mourning. <…> For me, this situation is just a disgrace. They robbed her of a hundred million, straight, of course!" she concluded.
The fact that one hundred million rubles were stolen from the wife of Gradsky, who died at the end of November, became known on the evening of January 16. According to the police, this happened in the Naro-Fominsk urban district: the robbers provoked an accident, got into Kotashenko's car and demanded to get to her house, and there they took a large amount of money. After that, the woman drove them to the Aprelevka station, where the criminals got into a white Mercedes and disappeared. attackers are installed. The police opened a robbery case. According to the media, the robbery could have been committed on a tip and one of the servants was involved in it. Gradsky died on November 28 at the age of 73. The cause of death was given as a cerebral infarction. The singer's health deteriorated after suffering COVID-19 in September. According to media reports, the musician married Kotashenko a few weeks before his death. The widow did not comment on the robbery incident.