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Wednesday, 30.03.2011
Ex-spy in a new role: Charity is fashionable
St. Petersburg. Anna Chapman, the beautiful ex-spy puts her efforts into a new venture: In St. Petersburg, she participated at an auction for blind and visually impaired children for whom she has set up a charity fund.
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It is astounding, the kind of jobs, that this beautiful woman with the nickname of "Bond girl" or "Agent 006", has already been working in: a banker, a leader and driving force for the Kremlin's youth and a television star.
Now she wants to present herself as a patron. She displayed the first sample of her new skills at a charity auction in the Yusupov Palace.
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Mrs Chapman, who, together with a group of Russian agents had lived in the US, was uncovered as a spy and deported to Russia in the summer of 2010, has established the relief fund "The right to a smile" for partially sighted and blind children. The evening raised 785 000 rubles.
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The auction was dedicated to the new watch collection "Lady in Red" by designer Ulysee Nardin. It was no coincidence that Mrs Chapman attended this event, as it was her, who, according to company directors Rolf Schneider, has inspired this collection.
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Only the "provocative and bold, charming and sophisticated, colourful and endlessly elegant Chapman" could present the new range of watches, it is stated in the press release of the evening.
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If course, Anna wore red to this festive event. Among the invited celebrities were figure skating star Yevgeny Plyushchenko and the pop singer and Eurovision winner Dima Bilan.
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Mrs Chapman embarrassed herself by asking a museum guide who the glamerous Yusupov Palace on the Moikahad had belonged to. "Well, Prince Yusupov," repied the visibly chastened woman .
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When asked about her funds, she only responded with the trivial remark: "Do you know how bad it is to be blind? Blindfold yourself and try to cross the street, then you will know! "
Original german text is here >>>
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