Anna Malova ( Russian: Анна Малова) is a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was appointed as Miss Russia 1998 and competed at

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and placed Top 10.

Biography

As a child, Anna was engaged in artistic gymnastics. She finished school in

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. After high school, Anna was admitted to the Yaroslavl Medical Institute at the Medical Faculty in

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. She trained as a doctor in Russia but has not licensed to practice in the United States. The first major step for Malova as a model was the " Ford Supermodel of Russia 1993" contest which was held in Moscow in late November 1992. In 1993, she took part in the regional competition Miss Volga 1993 where she became 1st runner-up and was invited to the

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1993 pageant - where she came in second. Then she won the title of Miss Baltic Sea 1994 in Finland and competed in the

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pageant in Sun City where she didn't place. In 1995 she left Moscow, spent six weeks learning English in Florida, where she met

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, who at the time was still married to his second wife,

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. In 1996, Malova moved to

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into a condominium in

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. That October, Trump acquired three beauty pageants from ITT Corp.:

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, and

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. In 1998, she was appointed as "Miss Russia" to compete in the Miss Universe pageant and made it to the Top 10 of the

pageant in

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. But the very fact she had even entered the pageant was - as New York magazine noticed - an anomaly. After the pageant she became a popular socialite girl in New York, and was the face of some commercials and advertising such as

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and

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. Malova signed up with Karin Models, which had been founded by

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's friend Jean-Luc Brunel. Malova was once romantically linked to hedge-fund billionaire

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, as well as comedian

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. On 18 May 2010, Malova was accused of stealing prescription pads from doctors, and writing herself prescriptions for anti-

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drugs. Malova was later jailed for failing to attend a drug-treatment programme. In 2019 a federal judge in New York released flight logs that showed she flew on board Epstein's plane nicknamed the Lolita Express, with heiress

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and Prince Andrew,

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’s second son, from Epstein's private island in the

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Little St. James (a.k.a. Pedophile Island) back to Florida in February 1999.

References

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