This is the bizarre ‘sex guru’ rocking the Kremlin after one of his female acolytes allegedly seduced a prominent pro-Vladimir Putin oligarch on his yacht.
Alex Lesley, 36, a mathematician turned ‘expert in seduction and orgasm techniques’, claims to have played a part in the events which led to social media giants YouTube and Instagram being threatened with a nationwide ban in Russia.
His ‘student’ Nastya Rybka boasted that she slept with metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska on his yacht, but far more politically explosive was her evidence that Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko – was on board at the same time.
Spider in the net: Self-proclaimed ‘sex guru’ Alex Lesley, real name Alexandr Kirillov, pictured with his ‘student’; escort Nastya Rybka
Interesting career: Mr Lesley claims to be a ‘sex guru’ and runs an ‘academy’ for women, teaching them how to land a wealthy man and how to manipulate partners
Kept the receipts: Mr Lesley claims to have told Miss Rybka to film her encounters with oligarch Oleg Deripaska, which later ended up on YouTube and Instagram
Miss Rybka – real name Anastasia Vashukevich – claimed she and other models were hired to spend time on the yacht off Norway two years ago.
Lesley encourages his ‘students’ to film their conquests ‘so he can advice them on where they are going right or wrong’, which Miss Rybka did.
She posted several videos on Instagram in August 2016 showing Deripaska on his yacht talking with Deputy Prime minister Prikhodko.
In one snippet, Deripaska is heard speaking to Miss Rybka, who is seen holding the oligarch’s hand, why relations between Russia and the United States are bad.
After the video’s appeared in an ‘investigation’ into Deripaska’s Kremlin connections by a Russian opposition politician, he has tried to have them removed from the internet.
Last week, Deripaska won an order from a Russian district court which found that Miss Ruybka’s Instagram posts and YouTube videos ‘breach his right to privacy’ and must be taken down.
Billionaire Oleg Deripaska (in blue) and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko (glasses) were reportedly filmed by Rybka on Deripaska’s private yacht in 2016
The videos and photos of Deripaska and Prikhodko on the yacht first emerged on the social media accounts of Miss Rybka (pictured on the yacht on the day in question with Deripaska)
Thorn in Kremlin’s side: Miss Rybka is open about her profession on her social media channels
As it is not possible for internet providers to block specific pages on Instagram and YouTube, Russian authorities threatened to ban both social media giants in Russia.
The potential block of YouTube and Instagram over videos of a private Russian citizen made the story global news – an extraordinary success for the eccentric Mr Lesley, real name Alexandr Kirillov.
Mr Lesley has claimed that he had influence over the videos filmed by Miss Rybka on the yacht, and has even listed her as a ‘coach’ in his ‘sex academy’.
At one point during her time on the yacht with Deripaska, Mr Lesley reportedly sent her text messages reading: ‘Nastya, your written report was perfect, but I must have audio to understand intonations and … what exactly you are doing there… ‘Start taping everything!
‘Why are you scared of him [Deripaska]? He’s just an ordinary man on a yacht!’
Lesley’s runs a ‘sex academy’ which offers the chance to turn them into a ‘new generation’ of man-hunters.
His social media is full of pictures showing him with a harem of ex-students and highlighting his near-naked physique.
Business model: Former mathematician Mr Lesley, seen with Miss Rybka to his left, runs a ‘sex academy’
‘Sex academy’: Mr Lesley charges 8,000 roubles or £102 for ‘base training’ over two days, and 23,000 roubles, or £292 for a week-long ‘advanced training’
Mr Lesley encourages his ‘students’ to film their conquests ‘so he can advice them on where they are going right or wrong’,
He tells would-be recruits, who are charged 8,000 roubles or £102 for ‘base training’ over two days: ‘Let’s hunt for the best males of Moscow and snare the best one – but better several!’
More advance training – lasting one week – is priced at 23,000 roubles, or £292.
He offers ‘new mind-blowing techniques for making (men) fall in love…tricks and manipulations for hunters of the world’s famous men….
‘Join the team and you will become the same — brave, confident and feminine.
‘A girl able to make anyone to fall in love with you!’
Women are told they will learn to ‘make an impressive acquaintance with a man of any level’, ‘techniques and practical tricks to make men fall in love’, ‘using jealousy’, and ‘positioning yourself for men from different social strata’.
Separately, he has likened coaching his students in his sex skills to training dogs.
‘We use the principles which are in the basis of dog training,’ he said.
The 36-year-old claims to be able to teach his students how to ‘make an impressive acquaintance with a man of any level’
Self-promotion: The ‘sex guru’ often posts nude or semi-naked images of himself and his students on social media
Mr Lesley has likened coaching his students in his sex skills to training dogs.
‘The main principle of training is praise and punishment. You praise emotionally and actively. Punishment – cold and not emotional.
‘It works, I checked this on hundreds of my students.’
Mr Lesley is a graduate of a graduate of Mechanical and Mathematical Faculty of Moscow State University, and claims to be general director of a scientific research centre at Russia’s top techno hub, Skolkovo.
He calls himself ‘an expert and professional in the field of male and female seduction, non-standard relationships, sex, BDSM, Shibari, orgasm techniques, along with shaping feelings and emotions.’
Mr Lesley and Miss Rybka have reportedly been threatened with indicidual lawsuits byDeripaska is a controversial figure who has been linked to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Manafort offered to provide briefings on the US Presidential race to Deripaska, according to a Washington Post report from September, although there is no evidence such briefings ever took place. In 2014, Deripaska accused Manafort of owing him nearly $19 million in a Cayman Islands court.
In 2008, Deripaska was at the centre of a British political scandal, when it emerged that then-Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, Lord Peter Mandelson and banking heir Nat Rothschild had all spent an evening on his yacht Queen K in Corfu in August.
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Oleg Deripaska, who is said to be a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is considered one of Russia ‘s wealthiest men.
Born in 1968 in the city of Dzerzhinsk, some 250 miles east of Moscow, Deripaska attended the School of Physics at Moscow State University before graduating from Moscow’s School of Economics at Plekhanov Academy of Economics.
He went on to establish himself in the domestic metals industry and in 2008, Forbes magazine listed Deripaska as the ninth-richest man in the world, worth about $28 billion.
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But when the financial crisis hit he almost went bankrupt before bouncing back – with the help of the Kremlin, according to some reports.
In 2016, Forbes ranked Deripaska as Russia’s 41st wealthiest man.
He hit the headlines in 2017 when he was found to have ties with Paul Manfort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman.
A report claimed $26million was transferred from Oguster Management Ltd – a company owned by Deripaska – to Yiakora Ventures Ltd – entities linked to Manafort.
Manafort denied that any business he did with Deripaska a decade ago was related to helping the Russian government.
British peer Lord Mandelson is also an intimate friend of Deripaska, having in 2005 famously joined him in a ‘Banya’ — a traditional sauna in which they were thrashed with bunches of birch twigs by a 25-year-old man, before jumping into freezing water.
Deripaska also hosted Lord Mandelson on his super-yacht, where the pair holidayed alongside Nat Rothschild, then shadow chancellor George Osborne and Tory fund-raiser Andrew Feldman in Corfu in 2008.