Aleksandra Melnichenko
Aleksandra Melnichenko (; ; born 21 April 1977) is a former Serbian singer and model, and the wife of Russian billionaire entrepreneur Andrey Melnichenko. Early life. Aleksandra "Sandra" Nikolić was born in Belgrade, Serbia to a Serb father and a Croat mother, Sandra was educated at the 11th Belgrade Gymnasium, prior to enrolling in the Faculty of International Management in Belgrade. Her father was an architect and her mother was an artist. Career. At the age of 15, Aleksandra was encouraged to become a fashion model. She travelled with her parents to Milan, Paris and London where she modelled for  a number of fashion houses. She worked for , Traffic, and other modeling agencies. Aged 17 she was a founding member of Models, a Serbian 1990s pop group. Over the following five years, Models released several albums including their first album "Made in Belgrade" and "Pusti nas u disko". She has appeared in several music videos, including "Sutra je novi dan" Funky G, "Da li si ikada mene voljela" Nenad Knežević Knez, "Grlica“ Željko Samardžić, and "Noć mi te duguje" Zdravko Čolić. In 1998, Aleksandra returned to modelling work and by 1999 was signed by model agencies that included Riccardo Gay  and Traffic. She spent the next four years working out of Milan and Barcelona on a number of advertising campaigns in the print media and on television. Personal life. Aleksandra met Andrey Melnichenko in the South of France in 2003. They married in September 2005 on the Cote D’Azur. Whitney Houston and Christina Aguilera were reported to perform at the event. Jennifer Lopez reportedly performed at her 30th birthday party. She has two children. Aleksandra and her husband Andrey Melnichenko own two works from Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series and a number of pieces of 18th century furniture. Aleksandra  and Andrey Melnichenko own two superyachts designed by Philip Starck: Sailing Yacht A and Motor Yacht A which reportedly cost $500 million and $350 million to build respectively, and are considered to be "one of the most advanced superyachts on the water" with "environmentally-friendly innovations." The yacht was seized by Italian authorities on 12 March 2022.