{"id":35809,"date":"2013-03-21T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=35809"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:56:12","slug":"anastasi-volochkova-claimssex-drugs-bolshoi-ballet-company-giant-brothel-showbiz-news-35809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/anastasi-volochkova-claimssex-drugs-bolshoi-ballet-company-giant-brothel-showbiz-news-35809\/","title":{"rendered":"Anastasia Volochkova Claims:Sex, Drugs and Bolshoi ballet company is a giant brothel \/ Showbiz News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Volochkova has claimed the beleaguered theatre of forcing female dancers to sleep with rich Russian oligarchs. \/ Showbiz News<\/h1>\n

Anastasia Volochkova, fired from the Bolshoi in 2003 for being too bulky, made the accusations against the scandal-mired Bolshoi in a television talk show on Sunday and repeated them in a radio interview.<\/p>\n

This time a former top dancer claims the ballet is a giant brothel.<\/p>\n

“It mainly happened with the corps du ballet but also with the soloists. Unfortunately, the Bolshoi general director has turned the Bolshoi theatre into a giant brothel,” Volochkova claimed to Russian News Service radio station.<\/p>\n

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“Ten years ago when I was dancing at the theatre, I repeatedly received such propositions to share the beds of oligarchs,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The girls were forced to go along to grand dinners and given advance warning that afterwards they would be expected to go to bed and have sex,” Volochkova alleged.<\/p>\n

“When the girls asked: ‘What happens if we refuse?’, they were told that they would not go on tour or even perform at the Bolshoi theatre. Can you imagine?”<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on the allegations on Tuesday at a news conference at the theatre, Iksanov said curtly: “I don’t comment on dirt and ravings.”<\/p>\n

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The sleazy claims came as the theatre is battling an unprecedented scandal with one of its top dancers, Pavel Dmitrichenko, who is facing trial for ordering a devastasting acid attack on the ballet’s artistic director Sergei Filin.<\/p>\n

The controversy comes at a time of huge turmoil for Russia’s leading dance company following the acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin on 17 January.<\/p>\n

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More than 300 staff at the theatre last week signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin saying that they believed Dmitrichenko was not capable of ordering such a crime and suggesting he had been pressured into making a confession.<\/p>\n

Volochkova is a maverick figure who has dabbled in television talent shows and opposition politics, while her solo dancing career has left critics cold.<\/p>\n

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Iksanov fired her from the Bolshoi in 2003 saying that she was too tall and heavy for male partners to lift.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 15)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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