lavish lifestyle wildly out of sync with his reported salary. clarissa ward has more. reporter: as heavy fighting continues in ukraine, one well-known russian socialite is still traveling regularly to france and causing quite an uproar to the point where a small protest took place in paris yesterday with people demanding that france do something to stop this because of where this woman s money allegedly comes from. svetlana maniovich is a woman of expensive taste. diamonds and couture, extravagant parties and european vacations. just last month, she was seen shopping and dancing in the elite french ski resort. but maniovich is no ordinary russian socialite, she is the other half of deputy minister of
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and has racked up more than 6 million views on youtube. it claims that on march 25th, 2022, as dozens of missiles rained down on the ukrainian city of kharkiv, maniovich spent more than $100,000 in a top paris jewelry store. how is it possible that she can continue to do this? it s a very simple trick that they ve played. svetlana has an israeli passport with her first husband. second of all, six months into the war they have filed for divorce. they haven t split any assets. nothing has changed in terms of daily life. whatever they owned, they keep owning together. but technically they re not legally married anymore. reporter: equally shocking are the opulent lifestyle and lavish spending that the leaked emails document.
defensived d received no reply. in france, though, the pressure may be mounting. sunday afternoon, the anti-corruption foundation organized a small protest outside the paris apartment it claims maniovich still rents demanding to know how she s allowed to spend the profits of russia s war in the heart of france. a question so far without any satisfactory answer. cnn has reached out to the french foreign minister who responded saying we don t comment on individual situations. france with its eu partners has ended visa facilitation for russian citizens and has also adopted targeted individual sanctions against 1499 russian officials and their supporters. we also attempted of course to reach out to svetlana maniovich sending her an email, but as of yet we have not received a