In an open letter to the Academy, the Ukrainian World Congress expressed its “serious concerns over Russia’s influence on the Hollywood film industry.”
— nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture — has a dark secret.
In 2008, during the economic recession, Rybolovlev, via a trust, paid $95 million for Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion. At the time, Trump was cash-strapped and radioactive to US banks. penthouse owned by Joan Weill. While the first “Top Gun” film mentions Russia as the enemy, “Top Gun: Maverick” makes no mention of Russia, even though the US pilots are bombing a snowy country’s nukes, according to Diane Francis, an anti-kleptocracy expert at the Atlantic Council, who reported on Rybolovlev’s “Top Gun”“It’s appalling,” Francis told The Post. “Hollywood actors go to Ukraine for photo ops, but do nothing about Russian influence in their own backyard.
Dmitry Rybolovlev looks on prior to the start of the French Ligue 1 football match between AS Monaco and Brest at the Louis II stadium in Monaco.In its letter, UWC president Paul Grod said that Rybolovlev is one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs and a close friend and business partner of Yury Trutnev, deputy prime minister of Russia.
In its open letter to the Academy, the Ukrainian World Congress called on the Academy to reject films with “direct or indirect investments by Russian oligarchs or other enablers of Russia’s genocidal war on Ukraine,” to review the eligibility of “Top Gun: Maverick” from participating in the Academy Awards, and to issue a strong statement condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine and any attempts “to influence Hollywood and American society.
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