Kseniya Sobchak
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Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak (also Kseniya, Russian: Ксения Анатольевна Собчак, born November 5, 1981 in Leningrad, Russia) is the step-daughter of the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. Known as a glamourous presenter of the reality show "Home-2" on TNT Russian channel and for having some relationships with Putin and Prince Michael of Kent. Sometimes described as Russia's "It girl" Sobchak acted in the 2004 film "Thiefs and Prostitutes", the true story about her childhood.
As a child she attended the ballet school attached to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Hermitage Museum art school. Ksenia left the school attached to Herzen's University, in 1998 and entered the Saint-Petersburg State University of International Relations. In 2001 she moved to Moscow and entered the Faculty of International Relations of the Moscow State University of International Relations. In 2002 she enrolled into a masters program in the Faculty of politics of the same university.
She is also known as a clothes designer and promoter of rubber boots. In June 2006 she created her first collection of such boots.
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- The Guardian: She has a TV show and a Porsche. Now Moscow's Paris Hilton wants a party too
- Brief biography from the Dom2 show web site
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