Otar Kushanashvili and wife: how many marriages there were and the heirs of the presenter, photo

Who did Otar Kushanashvili have a relationship with before marriage: his wives and children

Emotional, shocking, adventurous, unpredictable - epithets suitable to describe the stormy Caucasian nature of the journalist. Kushanashvili is loved for his sincerity and hated for his habit of bringing ugly facts to light. “Otarik from Kutaisi” does not leave anyone indifferent. But Georgian ardor and his own extravagance prevented the TV presenter from finding happiness in love.

Natalya and daughter Daria

Natalya Melnik worked for the newspaper Moskovskaya Pravda. The publication published Otar's articles, so the journalist regularly appeared in the editorial office.

The relationship between the young couple was not going well. When they didn’t work out at all, Otar left, but then returned. In an atmosphere of confusion and vacillation, daughter Daria was born. Kushanashvili became a father for the first time at the age of 26. The journalist never came to an understanding with his common-law wife. Otar finally left Natalya when his daughter was less than a year old. He returned only six years later to ask for forgiveness.

The separation went badly, as did their life together - they divided property in court. Communication with his daughter, or rather the lack thereof, is a sore subject for Otar. Daria has not become close to her notorious father and rather belongs to the category of people who are annoyed by him. Kushanashvili believes that his daughter is offended, but does not understand why. While visiting the show “The Fate of a Man,” the TV presenter urged her not to be picky and hug her old dad.

Olga and sons Georgy and Nicholas

Otar treats his large family with humor. The journalist joked that children appeared more often than he blinked.

For the second time, Kushanashvili became the father of twins. George and Nicholas were born to a girl from a wealthy family named Olga. A Georgian from Russian journalism almost became related to an influential Ukrainian deputy. He found out about this only a year after meeting Olga. The girl decided to test the feelings of her chosen one and did not talk about her high social status and wealth.

The truth was revealed at a shared family dinner. The TV presenter compared the situation to the movie “Cocktail,” when Tom Cruise’s poor hero found out that his girlfriend was from a rich family. Only there was no happy ending. The sons maintain contact with their outrageous father. They are separated by a distance of 900 kilometers and the state border. The twins live in Kyiv, but often call the TV presenter. The ex-wife runs a business.

Kushanashvili does not tell the details of his life with Olga, and calls the reason for the separation a lie. But he speaks enthusiastically about children. To please and please them, the journalist strived to achieve success and struggled with failure.

Otar extols his heirs and is confident that his children are the most beautiful and recognizable thanks to their father. It makes no sense to invite the Kushanashvili family to shows that confirm their relationship - they all have the same facial features or, as the journalist put it, the same “face.”

Elena and daughter Arina

The journalist's third lover is an ordinary woman. By chance, Elena met Otar in the late 90s, early 2000s. He worked as a correspondent for the “Sharks of the Pen” program, interviewed famous musicians and brilliantly arranged provocations for them on the instructions of the producers.

Kushanashvili broadcast on music and entertainment channels, as well as on radio Europe Plus. The journalist became recognizable thanks to his assertive manner of communication and humor. Despite the status of a media person, the presenter drew attention to a girl not associated with show business, television and journalism. Even after the separation, Elena did not declare herself and did not strive to achieve fame on the high-profile name of her former common-law husband, reporting scandalous details of her personal life.

About the relationship with Elena, only what Otar himself said was known. They weren't together for long. The couple had a daughter, Arina. She is now about twenty years old. The girl inherited her father's writing talent, but became a poetess.

Girl Alena and son Mamuk

The frivolous novel helped the journalist rethink his views on life. By the time of his epiphany, the relationship with Alena had ended. The girl gave birth to a boy, who was given a Caucasian name.

Due to adverse past experiences, financial problems and depression, Otar was unable to seriously love anyone. But another failure forced the TV presenter to look at himself in the mirror. Otar realized that it was time to rise from the bottom and again fight for the right to speak, write and be called a “shark of the pen.”

At that time, the journalist rented an apartment in a residential area of Moscow and was addicted to drugs with friends. His life turned into a den of hopelessness after a scandalous dismissal from television and the betrayal of a loved one. The girl Alena left a fleeting mark in Kushanashvili’s life. Her current whereabouts are unknown. The traces of Mamuk's son were also lost. His birth is attributed to other women of the TV presenter, and sometimes his real mother is not mentioned at all.

New generation: Dariko Kushanashvili

Today, the heroine of our “ New Generation ” column is the eldest daughter of the famous music journalist and showman Otar Kushanashvili (45). Dariko decided to put an end to countless questions from journalists about why she doesn’t communicate with her father, and gave us a frank interview where she talked about herself and her family. Sincere and very strong Dariko Kushanashvili (20) truly inspires new achievements and motivates to remain human, no matter what!

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I’m 20 years old, I earn my own living, because I don’t communicate with my dad now, and I try not to take money from my mom . Of course, she always wants to help me, but I believe that my mother already invested a lot in my upbringing and gave me everything I needed. It was only thanks to her that I had a truly happy childhood, although times were different for our family... But I always got what I wanted, and all this thanks to my mother. That’s why I want to give her the whole world myself!

My mother’s name is Natalya, and not as they say on Wikipedia and other sites. She has already been named both Olga and Marina... She is very mobile and never sits still. But I always want to leave her at home to rest and do all the work for her. Mom is a very wise woman, and it seems to me that this is noticeable even in her appearance. It is bright both outside and inside. A real angel who will not say offensive words to anyone.

I inherited almost all of my character traits from my dad. I'm trying to somehow fight the most negative of them, but it's almost impossible. As soon as I am dissatisfied with something, I immediately start growling at people and then I myself suffer from this. Even at school, I had one unpleasant trait - I could seriously hit someone. ( Laughs

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In a state of calm, I am an absolutely normal, soft and kind girl. But as soon as this daddy’s beast wakes up in me, I’m literally ready to kill everyone around me, and I absolutely don’t care what people think . Although with age this, of course, becomes less noticeable. After 18 years I began to behave calmer.

Because I earn money myself, I feel much calmer. I work in the fashion industry and feel comfortable there. When I had to start earning money myself, I went to work in a restaurant and thought I would stay there because I liked doing it. But I am a rather hot-tempered person, and over time I had some difficulties in communicating with visitors who considered themselves entitled to be rude to the staff. Therefore, I decided to change my field of activity.

Wherever I go to work, I always try to start from the bottom. I believe that this is the only way to gain experience. The theory is very easy to learn, but you can only gain experience and become a professional by starting from scratch.

When my mother became pregnant with me, she and my father separated. This was a mutual decision, because my mother believed that she would be uncomfortable with such a hot-tempered person. Not because he is bad, but because they are very different. Mom is calm, and dad is a young and hot Georgian. It was simply impossible, and I understand her perfectly. ( Laughs.

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My mother and I rarely discuss this topic. All the same, for a woman, the person from whom she gave birth to a child becomes the man of her life. Therefore, I do not want to touch on this story again.

Neighbors in the house where my parents once lived say that my father sang incredible serenades to my mother under the window. Of course, the courtship of Caucasian men cannot be compared with any other in the world.

When my mother and I watched TV or read magazines, she showed me Otar Kushanashvili and asked: “Who is that in our magazine?” And I answered: “I don’t know.” Then she told me that he was my dad, but I still didn’t fully realize it. And only then, when I was six years old, I saw my dad for the first time with my own eyes.

It always seems to me that I am daddy’s only daughter, but there are already seven of us. And, as it turned out, it will soon be eight (Dariko found out that Otar Kushanashvili was expecting her eighth child after reading the news on the PEOPLETALK . - Ed.

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Even now, at 20 years old, I don’t know all of my brothers and sisters. This is all very strange and difficult, because almost all the children are scattered across different cities.

In the seventh grade, I broke my leg and went to the hospital for six months because the doctors could not determine what happened to me. These doctors just needed to be told how to do x-rays! ( Laughs

.) My knee was the size of my head!
And during the time I spent in the hospital, dad didn’t even call me and never came to visit me. Then I took his photograph from home and put it on my bedside table, and rumors spread around the hospital that they had Kushanashvili’s daughter in their department. After that, my mother just lost her temper and started chasing the doctors so that they would treat me faster.
Dad is a very sentimental person, he has a real hurricane inside him. From time to time he was very worried, and I could see it. This hurricane is trying to break out, but he is a strong man and believes that it is unacceptable to show his daughter his weakness. In any case, I know that he worries and loves me very much...

Perhaps, if my father had been present in my life more often, I would not have broken up with a man due to his lack of attention to me. Due to the lack of fatherly love, my demands on men became much higher.

Two years ago, I broke up with my boyfriend and went to Cambodia, planning to stay there for a year. I wanted to lie by the sea and hear absolutely no one. I needed this rest.

At one time, I cried a lot because of quarrels with my dad. She constantly came home in tears and came up with some stupid excuses to answer her mother’s questions. But at some point, a year and a half ago, this cup simply overflowed, and I decided that this should not continue. This continued until my last birthday, when I did not receive congratulations from him. For me it was just a nightmare. Two months later, I received a message from his wife that dad wanted to meet me. But things never came to a meeting.

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I am the eldest daughter, my dad’s second daughter was Arina , then two boys: Georgiy and Nikolos , whom I have never seen. Their mother was the only woman with whom their father had two children. The next child was my brother Fedya , then my daughter Elina , whom I also never saw, and Danya - my favorite brother. I would simply give my soul for him!

Now I don’t communicate with my dad and his wife, but I’m waiting for Danya, their son, to grow up so that I can spend time with him, regardless of whether I communicate with his parents or not. He and I have a great mutual affection. True, for now he calls me “ Dasha ”, because it’s easier for him. ( Laughs

I have a grandmother figure: regardless of weight, there are feminine curves. It's cool because even if I type too much like I do now ( laughs)

, I don’t look as bad as I could!

I received secondary specialized education: advertising in the field of politics and business. And I stopped there for now, as I was leaving for another country. It seemed to me that this was 100% mine. Moreover, I always had an irresistible desire to do what my dad does. But, unfortunately or fortunately, this didn’t work out for me. I think if I followed in my father’s footsteps, I would always have a biased attitude towards myself. What would be demanded of me is the same as of him. Even more! Now I have a lot of plans and things to do. For example, I will soon start learning Spanish, driving school is ahead, and I try to work as much as possible, I get tremendous pleasure from it. Of course, I think about higher education, I choose, but I’m not in a hurry, I always have time. In the meantime, I’m just living for my own pleasure and developing in the direction that interests me.

PEOPLETALK is the first publication that I agreed to give an interview to in a long time. I would like to wish readers to never give up. Independence is a huge strength. I have had very good times and very bad ones, so I, like no one else, know that even if you have the opportunity to live off your parents, you need to try to achieve everything on your own. It cost me a lot, but that is why I became a strong person.

The TV presenter's first wife is Maria

Otar married out of love on his part and idolized his wife. But Kushanashvili’s career began to stagnate. Lack of work plunged the TV presenter into depression. The journalist recalls with bitterness a difficult period in his life. Alcohol and cocaine turned out to be friends in a hopeless situation, but not his beloved wife.

Taught by bitter experience, Otar is in no hurry to walk down the aisle. He is afraid to imagine what awaits him in fleeting love after betrayal in true love.

Biography and appearance

Facts about the first legal wife of Maria Kushanashvili:

maiden name - Gorokhova;
lawyer by training;
she was not married before her marriage to Otar;
After a divorce from the TV presenter, she married a second time.

Maria categorically refused to communicate with Kushanashvili. Their divorce case was being heard by the court. The ex-wife applied for alimony and the TV presenter’s apartment. Currently, the media mentions her under the name Maria Yakimova.

An old black and white photo of the couple has been preserved online. A radiantly smiling Otar hugs the shoulders of a fair-haired girl with a child in her arms.

Dating history and wedding

Otar was a sought-after publicist and TV presenter when he met the love of his life. He hosted the music program “Oboz”, worked on the radio, and published in major Moscow newspapers. The name Kushanashvili was well known and had already acquired a scandalous flair. At the time of meeting Maria, Russian pop stars were intimidated by the name of the journalist. Otar by that time had already made a triumphant leap into the crowd at a concert in Lithuania and realized that he was not yet such a star person that he would be enthusiastically caught. One could form an opinion about Kushanashvili as an extraordinary person with his own opinion. But Maria was not embarrassed by the scandalous fame of the groom, or perhaps she was attracted by his fame. The girl agreed to become Otar's wife.

Birth of a child

In his marriage to Maria, the journalist had only one child. The boy was named Fedor. Otar's official wife was initially considered the mother of twins and eldest daughter Daria. But later the details of Kushanashvili’s personal life became clear, and it turned out that half of his children were the fruits of extramarital love. The TV presenter is kind to all his offspring. Otar could turn his irrepressible energy into fatherly feelings and settle down thanks to his son from his beloved wife. But, instead of family happiness, a test of strength awaited him.

Reasons for divorce

In 2002, Otar Kushanashvili got into a serious scandal, which deprived him of work on television for a long time. At the beginning of the 2000s, censorship was seriously monitored. But at an exciting moment, censorship and Otar Kushanashvili are incompatible. The journalist was invited to discuss the broadcast of the Eurovision contest at the ORT studio. The obscene words that came out embarrassed not only Andrei Malakhov and the audience, but also the channel’s management.

Intemperance cost Otaru his job. He was not accepted anywhere. Maria did not support her husband at a difficult moment and filed for divorce. Out of despair, Kushanashvili began to drink. The reason for the divorce still remains a mystery to the presenter. At one point he lost his livelihood and family.

Maria sued her ex-husband for real estate and deprived her of communication with her son. She remarried and changed Fedor’s last name. Otar only recently learned that his son bears the surname Yakimov, and was very upset by this news. After the divorce, the journalist never saw Fedor or heard from him.

Otar Kushanashvili: biography, personal life

Otar once said that he would not be able to repeat the feat of his parents and raise nine children. But, despite this, the journalist already has 8 of them. His first wife, Maria Gorokhova, gave him three children: daughter Daria (Dariko), sons Georgy and Nicholas. All now live with their mother in Kyiv. According to Otar Kushanashvili, children are his pride. Especially Daria is beautiful and smart, her plans are a successful career on television. When the couple divorced, Maria sued Otar for all the property.

After breaking up with Maria, Otar met his new love in the person of Irina Kiseleva. She had nothing to do with show business and worked as a banking lawyer. Their family had two children: daughter Elina and son Fedor.

Second wife - Irina Kiseleva

After a divorce and loss of trust in the television environment, Otar abandoned Moscow life and moved to Rostov. The journalist is unrestrained both at the peak of fame and at its foot. In the provinces, he drank, used drugs and tranquilizers. At the stage of active moral decay, Kushanashvili began an affair with a bank employee, Irina.

The famous TV presenter left unpleasant impressions about himself in everyday life. He was in a drug and alcohol stupor, which could have been fatal. Conversations and scandals did not bring Otar back to consciousness. One day, reproaches almost ended in assault for Irina. The woman showed the drug addict to the door.

The journalist returned to Moscow, again began writing columns and writing articles for Komsomolskaya Pravda, Evening Moscow, and glossy magazines. He missed the printed word, “writing and adverbial phrases.”

Otar Kushanashvili and Irina Kiseleva swore off ever dating. But their common daughter Elina is not against communicating with her father. The girl lives in Moscow. The TV presenter helps his daughter with finances.

Passion for journalism in school years

The future journalist was born in 1970 in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR. His parents had nothing to do with creative professions. His father and mother were raising four more children, his sisters and brothers. Even in his childhood, Otar grew up to be a sociable and emotional boy who not only wanted to know a lot, but could also boldly speak out on any occasion.

During his school years, he loved to read, first it was books, and then printed publications, such as the Literary Newspaper. Then the young man began to write his first articles, which he sent to the local newspaper Kutaisskaya Pravda. After graduating from school, he was not faced with the question of choosing a future profession, since he had long ago decided to connect his life with journalism. Soon Kushanashvili left for Tbilisi, where he became a university student, but he never graduated. After serving two years in the army, he left for Moscow.

Common-law wife Olga Kurochkina and son Daniil

At the age of forty, Otar still spoke out openly on sensitive social and political topics, and had not lost his grip on criticizing celebrities. But the journalist’s personal life has stabilized. He gained extra pounds, which is not surprising. After all, Kushanashvili’s new chosen one is the author of a culinary blog.

Olga is from Voronezh. The girl was organizing events with the participation of a TV presenter. The couple has a son. Otar sings endless praises to ten-year-old Daniel. According to the journalist, the boy combined Caucasian fatality and Russian grief. The youngest son sees his father's daily struggle for survival and prosperity and learns not to be afraid of life. Daniil studies music, plays in an ensemble and began a career as a film actor. The boy starred in several episodes of Jumble.