A court in Germany has sent former
Playboy mate of the Year, Swetlana Maslowskaya,real name, Meharit Kifle, 32, to
jail for two and a half years over 1 million Euro tax frauds. Swetlana was the
mistress of German brewery heir Bruno Schubert who died a few years ago leaving
behind for the then 29years old lady his entire wealth. However the court was
told that the now wealthy mistress refused to pay tax to her government,
prompting her arrangement in court.Both couples got married in 2009 while Bruno
was 64 years younger than Meharit.
The decision to jail Maslowskaya,
who was playmate of the year in 2002, came after it was discovered that she had
accepted at least $2.5 million gifts from her 90-year-old lover, the German
brewery heir Bruno Schubert.
This included cash sums but also
cars, jewelries, exotic holidays, shopping sprees and an apartment in Salzburg
which she later sold without paying tax.
Maslowskaya gave up her modeling
career when she became the girlfriend of Schubert. The Playmate met the married
beer tycoon in 2004.
The model reportedly said at the
time: 'He wanted to have me immediately.'
Schubert, who sold the family's
famous Henninger brewery in the 1980s, married Meharit Kifle, a woman of
Ethiopian origin 64 years his junior in August 2009. The wedding took place five months after the
death of Ingeborg, his first wife of 68 years.
The multimillionaire philanthropist
died aged 90 in October 2010, leading to a legal dispute among family after he
changed his will and left his fortune to Ms Kifle. The family accused Ms Kifle
of not taking care of the elderly tycoon properly in the lead up to this death.
Maslowskaya's lawyer Eckart Hild appealed
for a suspended sentence in court this week. The retired model told the
court in tears: 'I am really sorry for what I did. I will never accept any
gifts ever again.'
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