Jorrit Joost Faassen (born 24 February 1980) is a Dutch businessman. He was allegedly the husband of
Maria Vorontsova
Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (, Putina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Early life
Vorontsova was born ...
and the son-in-law of Russian president
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
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Biography
Faassen was born in
Leiderdorp
Leiderdorp () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland near the city of Leiden. It had a population of in .
The municipality covers an area of of which is water. Leiderdorp has now become a suburb ...
in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
, the elder of two sons born to Jozef Faassen and Felicitas van de Stadt. His father was a naval officer in
Willemstad
Willemstad ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was the cap ...
,
Curaçao
Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela.
Curaçao includ ...
until 1986, a colonel in the 1990s and then a head of department in the
Royal Netherlands Navy
The Royal Netherlands Navy (, ) is the Navy, maritime service branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. It traces its history to 8 January 1488, making it the List of navies, third-oldest navy in the world.
During the 17th and early 18th centurie ...
. Faassen is a nephew of the Dutch painter Casper Faassen.
He studied architecture at
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
The Hague University of Applied Sciences (abbreviated as: ''THUAS''; ) is a university of applied sciences with its campuses located in The Hague, Delft and Zoetermeer. The main campus in The Hague is located behind The Hague Hollands Spoor ra ...
and graduated in 2004.
In 2005, Faassen met
Maria Vorontsova
Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (, Putina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Early life
Vorontsova was born ...
at a costume party at ''De twee heeren'' ("Two gentlemen") in
Maastricht
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On 15 April 2006, he moved to Moscow where he had been a director at
Stroytransgaz
OAO Stroytransgaz () is a Russian engineering construction company in the field of oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1990. It was originally a subsidiary of Gazprom, but now controlled by Gennady Timchenko though his Volga Group SI ...
but left that post to take a top posting in 2007 at
Gazprombank
Gazprombank (), or GPB (JSC), is a private-owned Russian bank, the third largest bank in the country by assets. Since November 2014, Nikolai Shamalov#Yuri Shamalov, Yuri Shamalov's Gazfond is its largest shareholder. Gazprombank is one of the m ...
, where he no longer works. He was the deputy chairman of MEF Audit, a Russian consulting group, until mid 2015 when MEF Audit removed his name from their website.
Faassen married
Maria Vorontsova
Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (, Putina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Early life
Vorontsova was born ...
, the eldest daughter of Russian president
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
, in summer 2008 in
Wassenaar
Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a municipality and town located in the province of South Holland, on the western coast of the Netherlands.
An affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies north of that city on the N44/A44 highway near the Nort ...
in the Netherlands.
On 14 November 2010, along the Rublevskoye Highway () near
Moscow
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, Faassen was beaten by four bodyguards of the Russian banker Matvey Urin, the co-owner of Trado-Bank (), previously the head of Breeze Bank () and associated with four other Moscow banks, all six of which subsequently went bankrupt. Half an hour after this occurred, Urin was detained and later incarcerated at
Butyrka
Butyrskaya prison (), usually known simply as Butyrka ( rus, Бутырка, p=bʊˈtɨrkə), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. In Imperial Russia it served as the central transit prison.
During the Soviet Un ...
and subsequently lost his wealth and vast holdings. Urin received an 8.5 year sentence and was released in September 2018. After the beating, Faassen allegedly stated that he never wanted to set foot in such a gangster country again and both he and Masha took a vacation to
New Zealand
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Faassen and Vorontsova have a son, born in August 2012 in the Netherlands. In 2013, they were living in a penthouse atop the highest residential building in
Voorschoten
Voorschoten () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a smaller town in the Randstad, enclosed by the cities of Leiden, Wassenaar and Leidschendam-Voorburg. The municipality covers an area ...
; they lived in the
Crimea
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district () of Voorschoten with neighbors fearing for their safety following what had happened with Matvey Urin. In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country after
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk missile system, Bu ...
was shot down in Ukraine. In 2015, they were reported to be living in Moscow.
In 2022, it was reported that Faassen and Vorontsova are no longer married.