Honored Artist of Russia Elena Stepanenko, after a high-profile divorce from People's Artist of the RSFSR Yevgeny Petrosyan, ended her career on the stage, and in February of this year she closed her legal entity.
After that, she disappeared from the media space for a long time, recently she appeared in public space for the first time in several years in the company of TV presenter Andrei Malakhov.
According to Stepanenko's friend, the performer of comic couplets Mikhail Vashukov, she left Russia, but periodically returns to Moscow.
"I do not know why she decided to start a secretive lifestyle. She has long left for the USA and sometimes comes to Moscow. That's all I can tell you about her today, unfortunately," the artist told the Paragraph portal.
Recall, Stepanenko and Petrosyan divorced in 2018 after 33 years of marriage. Only by the summer of 2021, the couple managed to reach an agreement on the division of property, which, according to media reports, is estimated at 1.5 billion rubles.

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