Oksana Grigorieva

Oksana Grigorieva (born Oksana Chernukha) is a Russian-American pianist, singer and songwriter.
Pretty girl was born on February 23, 1970 in Saransk into a family of professors of music. She has a younger sister, Natalia. At the age of three Oksana began playing the piano. Then she studied at the local music school and graduated from the Kazan Conservatory. After graduating from the Conservatory at the age of 20 Grigorieva moved to London, where she continued her education at the Royal College of Music.
While working as a model, the beautiful girl was noticed by photographer Patrick Hansen, Cousin of Prince Charles and the official photographer of the royal family. After that, her photos began to appear in many fashion magazines. At first, she worked under the name Chernukha, but later changed it to her mother’s name – Grigorieva.
Later Oksana moved to the U.S., where she lived in New York and Los Angeles. Amazing girl worked as a music teacher.

By the way, in 2006, Grigorieva wrote the song Un Dia Llegara, which was included in Josh Groban’s album Awake.
In addition, in 2009, Oksana in collaboration with Charlie Midnight released the album Beautiful Heartache. Mel Gibson was an executive producer of the album. Interesting album contains 11 tracks, including the Russian song Black Eyes. Grigorieva wrote the whole album herself, except of the song Say My Name, which was co-written with Gibson. The song Angel was dedicated to her with Timothy Dalton son Alexander, who was born in 1997.
As well, Oksana is involved in charitable activities and supports Chernobyl Foundation for Children.

Personal life
Outstanding Oksana married lawyer Igor Baranov in 1989, but their relationship ended after three months.
Three years later, in 1992, she married British artist Nicholas Rowland, who was 19 years older. Their marriage was annulled in 1994, but it allowed Oksana to stay in the UK.
Working as an interpreter for Nikita Mikhalkov at the Film Festival in London, Oksana met Timothy Dalton in 1995. So in 1996 she starred in the low-budget film A to Zen, as a Russian girl Katya. After a while the two got married. On August 7, 1997 their son Alexander was born. The reason for their separation, according to rumors, was her affair with Swedish businessman Peter Blomquist.
In the late 2000s Grigorieva had a romantic relationship with actor Mel Gibson. On October 30, 2009 their daughter Lucia was born. Couple broke up in April 2010. Gibson was identified as a possible suspect in a domestic violence investigation initiated after detectives spoke in Malibu to Grigorieva.
Recently, she is often seen in the company of an old friend, sound engineer Jimmy Hoyson. They were seen in restaurants and cinema.
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Oksana Grigorieva