Lawyer Dobrovinsky spoke about the background of the high-profile case: the French musician was accused of extortion with the help of pranksters Vovan and Lexus
An enchanting story: the French musician, leader of the Space group Didier Marouani, who accused Philip Kirkorov of plagiarism, along with lawyer Igor Trunov, were under investigation in Moscow - they seemed to be detained when the pop king accused them of extortion. Our special correspondent found out the details of the scandal.
Late Tuesday evening, in his office near Tsvetnoy Boulevard, lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky, representing the interests of Philip Kirkorov in the sensational "Maruani case", held a press conference, which was attended by so many journalists that the fan zone of the pop king would envy. Dobrovinsky tried to appear calm, but every now and then he gave vent to his emotions, showing how happy he was with everything that was happening.
He went out to reporters not alone, but with a colleague-lawyer, a spectacular lady, whom he introduced at first without a name, simply as his "student". The student was silent, looking at the mentor, the mentor spoke.
Mr. Dobrovinsky immediately stated that if Marouani had been smarter, he would not have extorted money from Kirkorov at all, since the singer is not the author of his songs, but a performer, which means that it is pointless to accuse him of any plagiarism. Then he explained in detail who, where and when he applied and what came of it.
It is absolutely not clear how to get out of this situation and what to do in general, - Dobrovinsky was perplexed. - Moreover, we already have an examination from Mr. Popkov, who is entrusted with making examinations, and which does not at all show that there (- "MK") there is some relation (to the melody of Marouani - "MK") and what -the rights can be violated, because these are two diametrically opposed songs.
It's all proven, and it's all fiction. When Mr. Trunov said a month ago that he would go to court, we were waiting for a lawsuit, but there was none. Trunov himself said publicly that he was going to the city court.
He really came to the city court, however, I don’t know why he had to go there and what to do there, because the city court should have nothing to do with the lawsuit, by definition. Maybe he stood there, but we didn't see the lawsuit. But fantasies about Kirkorov and a million copyright infringements sounded every day.
Then some time passed, and Mr. Trunov said: we are not going to the city court, but to the district court. But there is still no claim. We are covered with these slops. I'm sure they don't have expertise!
So, Trunov says that in two days the lawsuit will be in the district court. A week has passed, there is no lawsuit in the district court. That's how blackmailers worked in my memory.
Then there was information that a lawsuit (Maruani against Kirkorov - "MK") would appear in the United States. Trunov said that 75 million (rubles, the amount of the claim planned to be filed in Russia - "MK") is not money, so they go to the USA - "that's where we'll get it!"
Why USA? Where is the lawsuit in the US? Tomorrow there will be a lawsuit in the USA. There is not. I called my friends and colleagues there - there is no lawsuit there. time passes, Trunov appears in front of the cameras again and declares that the lawsuit that Kirkorov slammed everything will appear in Moscow. Why it has not appeared so far, no one can say, but this is an absolutely trivial system of forcing one person, in particular, Philip Kirkorov.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Dobrovinsky admitted that the whole story from beginning to end was the work of the most famous and successful telephone hooligans in Russia, the pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who this time not only called the unsuspecting Marouani, but also wrote letters to him:
However, nothing happens for the time being. And here the most important and funny begins. On the planet, everything strides together - both tragic and sympathetic. I have nothing to help poor Philip. And suddenly I get a call from two young people who say that they were engaged in jokes, but something serious turned out - a case similar to blackmail or extortion.
They explained that some time ago, as a joke, they called Didier Marouani on behalf of Kirkorov. These are Vovan and Lexus, well-known in our country, intelligent guys who record all conversations.
They began to actively talk with Didier on behalf of Philippe, they began a long correspondence, until it became clear to the guys that they had gotten into a story that was rising above the joke. This is a story about extortion and slander.
And when they got emails that clearly traced Section 163 to them about extortion, they called me. Until tonight, Kirkorov had never spoken to Marouani. Didn't send a single e-mail, didn't receive one from Didier. All this was done by pranksters in the form of a joke that went too far ...
At this moment, one of the cameramen standing in the hall did not like that the bulky black bag of the lawyer's companion was too clearly included in the frame. During a short pause, the journalist quietly and politely asked the girl to remove her handbag if possible.
- It's a headstone! - threw the lady. Indeed, the bag turned out to be made of stone (later it turned out that the “decoration” of the hall was mistaken for the bag - an installation by the artist Aksenov, who “buried” luxury brands in this way).
One more question and it will be yours! Dobrovinsky added in a serious tone. The hall immediately became quiet, and the lawyer continued:
The authorities checked everything clearly - I take my hat off to them. And they would never have gone to detain these two people if they had not seen the corpus delicti ...
Philip called me and said that he did not agree on anything with anyone. For the first time he hears about Marouani, who offers him either an agreement for a million euros, or goes to court with Trunov and makes clay out of him.
Kirkorov did what any citizen should have done - he turned to the authorities. Didier came to meet a charming girl to get money. There were no papers, no signing of a settlement agreement.
Trunov was late for 40 minutes and said something about papers, but it is absolutely impossible to believe him. He told Lexus and Vovan that it would be absolutely confidential information, no one would know about anything, everyone would be silent, and Philip would give him a million euros.
But Trunov was in correspondence. For him, the main thing is PR, and he immediately leaked it to the press. Everyone got excited: Kirkorov and Marouani sign (a settlement agreement - "MK"), Kirkorov pays colossal money ...
But if Kirkorov didn’t go to meet him with this money and if he didn’t have it, you see, everything would have remained just another joke of the pranksters.
When Didier Marouani realized that this was a prankster scam, did he not ask for forgiveness? I asked. How did he know it was a scam? He still thinks to this day that he talked with Kirkorov. You didn't tell him?
Can pranksters refuse to be witnesses or not take part in investigative actions? Or will they be attracted to the process? I clarified.
They will attract, they did not hide, and all their correspondence is recorded, - the lawyer answered. - They got scared when they began to extort a million from them, they realized that their joke had gone the wrong way.
Kirkorov was at the bank. He was exhausted by this situation: he did not write songs, he never violated copyright in his life.
Why couldn't he just explain it?
He explained this many times, but Trunov and Marouani were interested in money. Real money - one million euros. come and pick up.
- Kirkorov positions himself as a kind and believing person, a Christian ...
Why is positioning? Dobrovinsky interrupted me. - He is a kind and faithful person.
- Especially. As a believer, can Kirkorov forgive and stop the case?
You are asking a person of a different religion. I don’t talk about religion with him,” the lawyer snapped.
Other journalists were interested in the musical component of the case.
Very serious experts proved that these are different melodies, - Dobrovinsky rejected the doubt that plagiarism may have taken place. - I was looking forward to the trial. This was the only way to get rid of the stream of lies that rushed to Kirkorov, who is not the author (of the song he performed - "MK") and has nothing to do with writing music ...
After the main part of Dobrovinsky's press conference, I managed to ask him a few questions separately.
Tell me, how to prove that it was not Kirkorov who entered into a criminal conspiracy with the pranksters in order to frame Marouani?
Nobody has to prove it. This is clear and so on the correspondence between me and the pranksters.
- Why did Marouani call you?
Because the pranksters told him that they knew that Kirkorov had one lawyer.
But after all, Marouani can say at the investigative actions that it was a joke, that he knew everything that they were pranksters.
If he knew, why did he come for the money?
- And why did Kirkorov take the money to the bank, and did not stop all this?
As any citizen, Kirkorov can be protected by law enforcement agencies. He came to the authorities and said: they are withdrawing a million from me, I am not guilty of anything and I will not pay. What should I do? They answer him: go, give them a million.
But he could call...
Wait, you read article 163 of the Criminal Code and you will understand everything. The crime has already been committed. The fact of the transfer of money only emphasizes the fact of the crime.
- But before that, Kirkorov could call Didier Marouani and say: what are you doing?
And why didn't Didier call and say: I'm sorry, Philippe, I was joking and I have no complaints against you?
Kirkorov gave a person the opportunity to carry out illegal, in his opinion, actions further, but he could have stopped him.
Nothing like this. How could he stop? If one person killed another, and then he is going to kill another one, I will be silent: don't you kill him very much there? Well stop...
After the press conference, the journalists asked Dobrovinsky to show at least one letter or SMS from Marouani's correspondence with the pranksters. The lawyer at first denied, and then said that he would now leave and bring something. However, a few minutes later his assistant announced that Mr. Dobrovinsky would not return to the press, but would show the correspondence when he saw fit.
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Philip Kirkorov, Didier Marouani
Proceedings between Philip Kirkorov and the leader of the French band Space Didier Marouani over the song "Cruel Love" continue. Today Marouani wrote a statement about a false denunciation against the Russian singer.
The scandal erupted on November 1, when French musician Didier Marouani filed a lawsuit alleging that Kirkorov's song "Cruel Love" was a plagiarism of Marouani's Symphonic Space Dream. The Moscow City Court returned the claim for copyright protection to the Space group, but this did not stop Maruani - he seriously intended to achieve justice.
To this end, the Frenchman came to Moscow, where he said that Kirkorov, in a personal conversation, admitted the fact of plagiarism and agreed to pay compensation. However, Kirkorov's lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky refuted Marouani's words and noted that Kirkorov had not communicated with Marouani all this time and had not agreed on anything with him.
With whom, then, did the Frenchman speak? It turned out that with the pranksters who, on behalf of Kirkorov, called Marouani and offered to resolve the matter peacefully, promising compensation of one million euros. Soon Kirkorov turned to the police: the pop king said that he had written a statement about slander, extortion and damage to reputation from Marouani.
On November 29, Maruani and his lawyer Trunov were detained at the branch of Sberbank in Moscow, where they arrived to sign a settlement agreement with Kirkorov. Soon the police released the detainees and even, according to Trunov's lawyer, apologized to them.
On November 30, the case continued: the investigative group seized two bundles of money from Philip Kirkorov in the amount of 100 thousand euros. The Russian singer personally handed over the counted banknotes to Marouani at the Sberbank branch. Allegedly, during the meeting, Kirkorov put money on the table, after which the Frenchman tried to take it. At that moment, Marouani was detained by police officers who were watching the operation. For pre-investigation measures, the money was seized as material evidence. After 100 thousand euros should be returned to the owner - Kirkorov.
And again, the case did not end in anything: the Frenchman wrote a counter-application with a request to open a case about a knowingly false denunciation. Marouani's lawyer said that, together with her client, they spent more than five hours in the investigation department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs:
We were questioned in detail about the whole situation, we gave detailed explanations. They asked how he met Kirkorov, when he wrote the controversial song, how the negotiations took place. About everything,
- said Lyudmila Aivar.
The lawyer stressed that the French musician was interviewed solely as an eyewitness to the events - he is not a suspect.
There is also no criminal case on extortion,
Ivar said.
Marouani himself said that now, after the false denunciation and the subsequent detention, there could be no reconciliation between him and Kirkorov.
On December 2, Marouani plans to leave Russia, but he intends to continue seeking justice.
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November 29, 2016, 20:20 ; updated November 30 at 21:34Didier Marouani, the leader of the French musical group Space, and Igor Trunov, a lawyer representing him, have been detained in a branch of Sberbank in central Moscow, they are suspected of extorting a million euros from Russian singer Philip Kirkorov. This was reported by Kirkorov's lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky and Trunov's lawyer Lyudmila Aivar.
Earlier, Marouani accused Kirkorov of plagiarizing his song Symphonic Space Dream and sued him in a Russian court. Claims were caused by Kirkorov's song "Cruel Love". The Frenchman demanded compensation for damages from copyright infringement, as well as compensation for non-pecuniary damage, recovering more than 75 million rubles from the defendants. The defendants in this case, in addition to Kirkorov himself, are the songwriter Oleg Popkov, Philip Kirkorov Production LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, the Ronees group of companies, and VGTRK.
“I am in the process of detaining Maruani and Trunov on suspicion of extorting one million euros from my client Philip Kirkorov. We are currently in Sberbank,” Kirkorov’s lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told RIA Novosti. - As far as I understand, a criminal case has been initiated, since people have been detained. Operations are underway now. They will check and count the money."
Filipp Kirkorov's representative Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky, in a conversation with Mediazona, declined to comment, saying that "only Alexander Dobrovinsky gives all comments on this story." Kirkorov himself has not yet commented on what is happening.
November 29, 20:24 Kirkorov's comment to "Life": "I was silent all this time, it was so absurd for me, all these claims, accusations, so many lies directed at me by this composer. It's just that my cup of patience was overflowing when it went beyond allowed and legal. Someday this should have come to an end. Today it happened. The situation was resolved exactly as it should have been resolved by law. All this forced me to turn to law enforcement agencies and ask for protection from the state, so that I would be protected from such insinuations which happened today. I can’t say anything more yet, as investigative actions are underway.”
November 30, 09:37 On the evening of November 29, Maruani and Trunov were detained and brought to the Basmanny police station. They spent the whole night there, in the morning the police released them and apologized. They did not initiate a criminal case on extortion against Marouani and Trunov.
"The police released Trunov and Maruani, at five in the morning they returned home. The police apologized to them," Trunova's lawyer Lyudmila Aivar told Interfax on Wednesday. She also said that law enforcement agencies did not initiate a criminal case on Kirkorov's extortion claim. Meanwhile, according to her, Trunov has not yet returned the phone and documents.The day before, a lawyer and a musician were detained at a bank in Moscow, where, according to Trunov, they came to sign a settlement agreement with Kirkorov, who allegedly agreed to pay 1 million euros to Marouani for the misuse of his music.
However, as Kirkorov's lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told Interfax, no amicable agreement was reached. "Kirkorov wrote to the police a statement about extortion by Marouani. We participated in the investigative experiment," he said.
French musician Didier Marouani is stuffed into a police car. He resists. Detained at the request of Philip Kirkorov. Fiction pic.twitter.com/2AUtb05qjP
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) November 29, 2016
November 30, 21:34 During a press conference in Moscow, Marouani said that he would sue Kirkorov for slander. Trunov added that he had already written a statement to the prosecutor's office about a false denunciation against the Russian singer and his lawyer Dobrovinsky, Interfax reports. Trunov also promised to file a complaint with the ECHR against those who allowed, in his opinion, illegal detention.According to the lawyer, he and Marouani voluntarily went to the police, where they spent 8 hours. In the department, says Trunov, they took the dossier on Kirkorov from them and still have not given it back. Most likely, we are talking about the papers of the French composer, which contain information that Kirkorov allegedly stole more than 30 songs from other performers, including the "song for Eurovision".
In addition, according to Marouani, his friend, a certain composer, also wants to sue Kirkorov. "My friend wrote a song for Dalida, and Kirkorov sang it without permission," said Marouani, specifying that it was about the song "The Most, Most".
The French musician was indignant that the "60 policemen" who detained him and Trunov behaved "unkindly, like in a bad detective movie."
Marouani also denied the version of pranksters who allegedly called him on behalf of Kirkorov. "I have an excellent ear for music, I can distinguish the voice of Philip Kirkorov, I spoke with him," he said. Trunov noted that the pranksters' pranks are a single action, and Marouani spoke with Kirkorov several times, RIA Novosti reports. In addition, despite Dobrovinsky’s statements about the pranksters’ initial initiative in this matter, Marouani, even before the calls, corresponded with Kirkorov by e-mail, the address of which was given to him personally by the Russian singer’s assistant, Trunov emphasized.
During the press conference, Didier Marouani made many sensational statements, in particular, he said that during telephone conversations, Philip Kirkorov hinted at Oleg Popkov's connections with the mafiaIgor Trunov spoke about how the day before, at the initiative of Philip Kirkorov, he and Marouani were supposed to meet in Sberbank and how the singer unexpectedly offered to move the meeting to a nearby bar. According to the lawyer, in this bar, the Frenchman and his Russian representatives were waited by security officers dressed as waiters. But the composer refused this offer, and then an operation was carried out, during which about 60 people in uniform blocked him, along with Russian representatives in the bank, and then escorted him to the police.
At the same time, Marouani renounced his claims to the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, RIA Novosti reports. TV channel "Russia" was declared a co-defendant in the lawsuit, because for the first time "Cruel Love" sounded on its air. Why it was decided to abandon the claims is not specified. The singer will continue to sue Popkov, Kirkorov as the performer of this composition, as well as with record companies, Trunov said.
Kirkorov, meanwhile, said that he would recommend Oleg Popkov to sue Marouani. According to the singer, "Cruel Love" appeared three years earlier than the song of the Marouani group. "15 years after the song" Cruel Love sounded on the air, the "real author" of this song woke up. Where he was all these 15 years - no one knows where. Why did he suddenly wake up on the eve of some of his affairs in Russia, why did this suddenly happen now, and in general why are there claims against me, a performer who is not the author of the song "Cruel Love" at all? This song has its own author, his name is Oleg Popkov, he is also the author of music, he is also the author of words, "-
While the scandal involving the accusation of Philip Kirkorov of plagiarism and the statement that he wrote to the Russian police against the French musician Didier Marouani, accusing the latter of blackmail, is gaining momentum, let's recall other ugly stories, the main person involved in which was the performer who calls himself "the king of pop and "radiant". Writes about it
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No. 1. Like "plywood" over Paris
The first high-profile scandal associated with the name of Kirkorov broke out in January 2003 - after Yuri Shevchuk accused the singer and several other representatives of show business of singing to "plywood". Shevchuk supported the bill "On the phonogram", the meaning of which was as follows: a performer using a phonogram during his performances must warn the audience about this in advance, and best of all, write on the poster. At the same time, Shevchuk posted on one of the Internet sites recordings of stars who, in a breaking voice, gasping for breath, tried to sing along to their own soundtrack. In addition to Kirkorov, there were many performers, but only he took criticism to heart. And - I decided to sort things out with Shevchuk. He chose a method, frankly, not the most noble - he hired journalists who began to collect dirt on the rocker: they called Shevchuk's friends and even classmates, trying to find something unseemly in his past. The overarching task of the public opinion poll was to find facts pointing to Shevchuk's non-traditional sexual orientation. When nothing incriminating the rocker could be found, Kirkorov made a scandal with a fight in the lobby bar of one of the hotels in St. Petersburg, and, having succumbed to the onslaught of the rocker, set his bodyguards on him, who allegedly even knocked out Shevchuk's tooth. True, the musician himself denied this, but the sediment, as they say in such cases, remained. The story was discussed for a long time in the media, and is still sometimes remembered - as an example of the ugly behavior of the "radiant".
No. 2. Passion for a pink blouse
The next scandal involving Kirkorov has an exact date - May 20, 2004. On that day, at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don, the singer literally soared when he heard a question from a local journalist, Irina Aroyan, about the large number of remakes in his repertoire. Goggling his eyes, Kirkorov attacked the girl with curses, the most harmless of which was the phrase that he did not like her pink blouse. And to Aroyan's remark, "Aren't you ashamed to behave like that, you're a star!" reacted with an unpretentious, but insulting rhyme for a journalist, after which he left - extremely pleased with himself. At that time, for the first time, Kirkorov had to face public condemnation - numerous media outlets spoke out against him, however, mainly regional, not metropolitan ones - Moscow journalists remained silent. Aroyan filed a lawsuit against the "radiant" one, which he lost: according to the verdict, Kirkorov apologized to her, first personally, and then publicly - at the Golden Gramophone music award ceremony. The result of the scandal was the nickname "king of remakes", tightly attached to Kirkorov.
No. 3. Exactly - in Yablokovo
This scandalous story happened on the set of the Golden Gramophone in December 2010, when Kirkorov quarreled with the second director of the show, Marina Yablokova. The singer demanded to turn off the spotlight that shone in his face, and when the girl asked him to wait a bit, he began to call her names, and then, running up and grabbing her by the hair, shouting "I'll kill you!" and beat - first hit in the face, then - with his foot. According to Yablokova's lawyer, she was diagnosed with a concussion and numerous hematomas. When the general public became aware of the incident, the singer got scared and fled to Israel, where he hid in a neurosis clinic - ostensibly in order to be treated for a nervous shock. In confirmation of this version, the singer blamed the incident on ... the demons that had inhabited him a week before, when he was playing Dracula. Then the Russian show business was divided into two parts - some condemned Kirkorov and refused to perform on the same stage with him, others remained silent, which seemed to many approving and encouraging. Yablokova sued, but she failed to prove Kirkorov's guilt, nevertheless he invited her to sign a settlement agreement and publicly apologized to her.
No. 4. "I am Philip Kirkorov!"
Another outburst of unmotivated rage happened to the "radiant" in September 2011 in Yalta - at the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Crimea Music Fest. Kirkorov was dissatisfied with the fact that by the time he appeared on the stage, the backup dancers had not been ready and the scenery had not been installed. The singer rolled his eyes, stamped his feet and shouted that against the background of "stupid boats and stupid seagulls" some Igor Nikolaev could sing (the fact that he was sitting in the hall at that time added piquancy to the situation), and not such a star as Philip Kirkorov, and generously sprinkled his words with selected obscenities. Only the general director of the festival and the production director were able to bring the "pop king" to his senses, he categorically refused to communicate with persons of a lower rank.
No. 5. Excommunication
In April 2012, during the baptism of his daughter Alla-Victoria, Kirkorov apparently decided that he was, if not the Lord God, although this, given the strange behavior of the "radiant", cannot be denied, then certainly a spiritual shepherd - for sure. How else can one explain the fact that he addressed those present with a speech from the church pulpit? The next day, the clergy condemned this trick, reminding Kirkorov that his children were born thanks to surrogate mothers, which the church does not approve of, so the singer may well be excommunicated.
If you are desperate and no longer know how to behave in a crisis, what to buy, what to refuse and what to stock up on, then Channel One in the person of Philip Kirkorov gives hope to all who suffer. Tomorrow, as part of Maxim Galkin's new entertainment show "MaximMaxim", his author's column "Surviving the Crisis with Philip Kirkorov" will start.
In it, the singer will generously share tips on how to keep the house clean and at the same time save money. Filming of the first issues has already taken place, some of them, by the way, took place in the artist's luxurious apartments. In the first program, Philip, for example, plans to teach viewers how to clean windows with newspaper and ammonia in order to save on rags and a special tool that can sometimes be too expensive.
Further - more: how to clean the carpet with cabbage, bleach the sheets with the help of improvised means ... Kirkorov performs these manipulations with a completely deadpan look, dressed in the best suits from DG or Philipp Plain from his wardrobe.
“Channel One offered me the idea of my own column,” Philip shared with StarHit. I liked her, I agreed. I like to laugh - including at myself, I like to surprise. I think I can do it. Of course, everything that happens on the set, in fact, is a big joke, even banter. But it is possible that my advice will be useful to someone. I am ready for criticism - but I hope that viewers will correctly understand the message of the rubric.
Maxim Galkin was also able to discover something new during the filming. “In the course of work on the project, I received a record number of people in the castle, got behind the wheel for the first time, captured several Ostankino studios in the absence of their owners, and with whom I didn’t sing,” the TV presenter said. In addition, in the first issue of the program will appear and
