Rapoport had emerged as a staunch supporter of Ukraine’s independence and criticized Putin’s annexation of Crimea.Update from Twitter: “Believe it is going to be the Dupont location of Brine, the oyster bar on H St.” Dan Rapoport/ East2west News In 2016, Rapoport sold this home he owned in the Kalorama section of DC to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. This is an undated photo of the businessman. A Russian journalist claimed she last saw Rapoport in the company of young women at a London bar in May. Rapoport, who was by then divorced, moved shortly after to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met his second wife, Alena, a virologist. In 2016, Rapoport sold the property to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who had decamped to the capital to join Donald Trump’s administration. The Rapoports settled in a stately, multimillion-dollar home in the high-end Kalorma section of DC. Rapoport left Russia in 2012 over his support of dissident Alexei Navalny - who is currently serving a lengthy sentence at a notorious maximum-security prison - and returned to the US with his first wife, a fashion model named Irina. Alena Rapoport (right), Dan’s widow, denied that her husband took his own life. In 1991, Rapoport graduated from the University of Houston, and after the fall of the Soviet Union, he moved to Russia to pursue a career as an investment banker. In 1980, his family emigrated to the US after being granted political asylum. Rapoport was born in Latvia when the Baltic state was still part of the Soviet Union. The news site also reported that in the months leading up to his death, Rapoport was allegedly locked in a feud with a Russian venture capital firm, which was trying to cheat him out of $10,000, he claimed in a message to a friend.
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Police recovered at the scene of the incident several personal items purportedly belonging to Rapoport, including more than $2,600 in cash, a broken cellphone and a cracked headphone, the Daily Mail reported. Two days before he died, Rapoport posted what would turn out to be his final Facebook status update: a haunting photo of Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now,” accompanied by the quote: “The horror, the horror.” “There were no suicide notes, no suicide, no trip to London, no breakup,” Alena stressed to the Russian news outlet RBC, adding that Rapoport’s death was being investigated by the authorities. However, Rapoport’s widow, Alena Rapoport, denied that her husband’s death was self-inflicted. Police official caught working at Whole Foods on department’s clock The Met’s embrace of hate, school aid soars as enrollment sinks and other commentary The National Archives apologizes to pro-life visitors for denying entry, offers personal tourĬongresswoman calls for crackdown on repeat offenders after she’s attacked in DC elevator Two days before his death, this post depicting Marlon Brando in “Apocalypse Now” appeared on Rapoport’s Facebook page. Pugacheva claimed that she last saw Rapoport, an investment banker and former co-owner of the popular Moscow nightclub Soho Rooms, back in May at the Connaught bar in London, where she said he was, “as always, in the company of young women,” after his wife had purportedly left him. News of his death was first reported by Yuniya Pugacheva, former editor of Russian Tatler, who claimed in a post on her Telegram channel that Rapoport died by suicide, and that his dog - a mixed-breed pup named Boy - was located in a nearby park, along with a suicide note and cash. Arellano, Juan Rapoport’s dog, Boy, was said to have been located in a nearby park, along with more than $2,600 in cash and a suicide note. apartment building in Washington, DC, on Sunday night.
No cause of death has been released, but police said, “At this time, we do not suspect foul play.” Rapoport was found dead outside the 2400 Main St. Police said they made the grim discovery after responding to a call about a “jumper.” apartments in the Georgetown neighborhood shortly before 9 p.m. A well-known businessman living in exile in the US after criticizing Russia’s Vladimir Putin was found dead outside his apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of Washington, DC, police said.ĭan Rapoport, 52, was discovered lying on the sidewalk outside 2400 Main St.
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