Millionaire Khubutia's Revelations on Alleged Attack Against Yulia Van

In 2025, model and businesswoman Yulia Van accused millionaire and former Moscow Oblast trade minister Mikhail Khubutia of attacking her with an axe. The court placed Mikhail Khubutia under eight months of house arrest, and in December gave him a suspended one-year sentence and ordered him to pay compensation for treatment. But the story did not end there. While Yulia says she continues to receive threats, Mikhail has had his say and made his confession.

«I cannot live with my wife in deception»

The millionaire met Yulia through a manager. He planned to spend only one night with her, for which he paid $10,000. However, fate brought them together again after a concert by mutual acquaintance, pianist Yuri Rozum.

Mikhail did not refuse such a pleasant acquaintance and went with Yulia to Suzdal. During the trip, Van came up with a profitable scheme for why Khubutia should continue seeing her, and not someone else.

— «I came up with a business package for you. You give me exactly one million rubles per month (approximately $10,000 at current rates), I give you a gold card. That includes 10 nights, 2 dances in different costumes, and 3 outings. It»s 100,000 rubles (approximately $1,000 at current rates) per night, consider it a gift, a stroke of luck since you«re buying in bulk,» Yulia says in a video provided by Khubutia.

The plan interested the millionaire, and their meetings continued. Yulia knew that Mikhail had a wife, whom he did not plan to divorce, and he was aware that he was not the only one the model spent time with. Mikhail showed a video where the girl openly spoke about another suitor and offered to pay her so that all attention would go only to Khubutia.

— «Men appeared for her very often, and she always told me about it. Why hide it? There are messages where I tell her: »Yul, when you arrange your life for the long term, then I«ll think about how to tell the whole truth. I cannot live with my wife in deception,»« Khubutia confesses on the »Malahov« show (16+).

Mikhail did not deny Yulia anything: rest, shopping — everything she wanted. After a while, the man himself is surprised by his generosity and suspects that black magic was involved and he might have been drugged.

— «She poured drinks and did not hide it. Her mother dealt with herbs, and in general — Morozovsk (a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia) is considered a place where there is witchcraft, and even people from Rostov go there,» Mikhail is sure.

«I very much doubt that this is my child»

Whatever methods Yulia used, she could not completely captivate Mikhail. Khubutia continued to hurry home to his wife Eka, with whom he has spent his entire life. Together in 2018, they experienced the death of their son and jointly came to the thought that they wanted to try to have another child. Eka suggested surrogacy, but for that, material needed to be collected. Khubutia turned to Yulia for help.

— «She was supposed to help me. But it didn»t work out. We parted ways on that, and in January she tells me: «Mish, I»m pregnant.« She did everything not to give up the material, but to keep it for herself and get pregnant. I am a believer and a decent person — you deceived me, but I won»t abandon you. Now I very much doubt that this is my child. I became convinced that she was simultaneously dating different people,« Mikhail stated.

The couple had a daughter, Nicole. Mikhail believed he should take care of the mother of his child and bought Yulia a house, a car, and a business. He also regularly brought groceries and paid for a nanny for the daughter. According to the millionaire, Yulia could not be called an equally diligent parent. After another time when he found out she had not spent the night at home, they had a conflict.

— «The nanny called me the day before and said that madam did not spend the night at home, and she promised the child she would be home. The child started crying in the morning, doesn»t want to go to kindergarten or anywhere. She has hysterics. I said I would come and talk, but only in your presence. She knew I was coming,« Mikhail says about the fateful night.

The millionaire does not deny it; he hit Yulia, but that was all. Mikhail calls the blood and cuts a thought-out plan by Van to discredit him. In confirmation of his words, Khubutia reminds that his daughter did not hear her mother«s screams, although she was in the next room.

— «Well, yes, I hit her, but she initiated it, and there are witnesses to that — the nanny, who was made a scapegoat,» Mikhail admits. — «It was all carefully prepared. She wouldn»t have had the brains to come up with this alone. She had a team with her boyfriend.«

Mikhail also showed what the axe he allegedly used to chop up Yulia really looked like. Khubutia carries such a «weapon» to collect small kindling for a samovar.

— «Yes, she is right. I had an axe, two of them,» he jokingly handed Malakhov tools smaller than a handle.

Mikhail learned about the attack and the video where the mother of his child is bleeding only the next morning, when he was called in for questioning. Khubutia adds that he wants this story to be left in the past as soon as possible. For him, his wife comes first now, from whom he begged forgiveness all the months of his arrest.

— «It was awful. I consider it a betrayal,» Eka spoke up. — «I wasn»t in Moscow. I flew in, talked to him. I felt very sorry for him, because he was worked on. It still hurts me a lot, and I think it will be like that for a long time. But such is fate.«

To start a new chapter in their family, at the end of the program Mikhail proposed to his wife again. She agreed.