In Moscow, the larger-than-life Rapoport also opened the iconic Soho Rooms nightclub. And married his first wife, a Russian fashion model.
Rapoport was forced to leave Russia in 2012. His support of dissident Alexei Navalny over Putin put his life at risk.
The Latvian American investment banker was back in the US living in exile from 2012 to 2016. The Rapoport’s moved to a multimillion-dollar home in a high-end part of DC.
Rapoport and his wife were divorced by 2016. And after the election of President Donald Trump their house was sold to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Then the continent-hopping businessman moved to Kyiv, Ukraine. And met and married his second wife, Alena, a virologist.
It wasn’t long before Putin’s fiercest critic got involved in local Ukrainian politics. And in 2018, Bellingcat, the open-source investigation website reported that Rapoport was also known as ‘David Jewberg’, a source for media in the US, Ukraine, and Russia. He was billed as a ‘Pentagon analyst’ and Russian expert.
