Three years later, Julia gave birth to their son Maximilien. Stern was estranged from his wife, Beatrice David-Weill, with whom he had three children. In 1997, she embarked on a passionate affair with one of Sir James’s billionaire friends, Edouard Stern, a confidant of the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and one of the richest men in France. I must have been 17 or 18 - I’d already moved to London - before I knew that same-sex relationships happened.’ĭuring her years in London, Julia stayed at the Chelsea home of socialite heiress Caroline St George and was a guest of Tory politician Lord Lambton at his Tuscany villa.īy the mid-1990s, she had moved to Paris to open her own spa and befriended financier Sir James Goldsmith for business advice. ‘I grew up in Russia and I didn’t know it existed,’ she added. Julia pictured with her Real Housewives of Miami castmates at the season five premiere The couple (pictured enjoying dinner with their dog) first met in 2000 at a gay bar in Paris Right: Julia working as a model after her Miss USSR win Left: Julia Lemigova pictured at the age of 18. Julia says she only realised what being gay was when she was an adult. The following year, she took third place in the Miss Universe contest and moved to London. In 1990, Julia – who was only 18 at the time – became the last woman to ever be crowned Miss USSR. However, Julia had dreams of living in the West and says she used to sell trinkets outside of hotels in Moscow to put towards plane tickets. There would always be trips to the theatre or to see the Bolshoi.’ Speaking to Daily Mail in 2015, the mother-of-two explained that her father also worked as a engineer in the aviation industry – which is how he met her mother.ĭescribing her comfortable, middle-class upbringing, she said: ‘I had a good education and my parents were quite cultured. Julia Lemigova pictured prepping for Miss Universe in 1991 after her Miss USSR win Martina Navratilova and Julia Lemigova pictured attending the Pre-GRAMMY Gala in 2017 Now a mother-of-two, she stars in the Real Housewives of Miami and has had a successful career as a model, becoming the final ever Miss USSR. Julia has often praised her wife, saying she ‘amazes her every day’ and that fighting cancer was like ‘playing singles against the nastiest double partners she ever faced in her life’.īut Julia, who was born in Soviet Russia in 1972, the daughter of a colonel in the USSR army, has battled her own personal tragedy, including overcoming the death of her baby son. In a new post this week to Julia’s Instagram account, the couple shared the emotional moment Navratilova had her hair cut short, saying the trip was ‘a reminder of how far we’ve come’. The 66-year-old, who yesterday cut her hair short in what she dubbed a ‘f**k cancer’ style, has been supported by her wife of seven years Julia Lemigova, 51, throughout her cancer battle. However, she is now celebrating a whole new kind of joy, after getting the all clear from breast and throat cancer. As one of the greatest tennis players of all time and with 18 Grand Slam titles to her name, Martina Navratilova is no stranger to success.
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