Divorce proceedings reveal that this long-time Russian newspaper chief editor is allegedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars

Pavel Gusev, the long-time chief editor of the newspaper Moskovsky Komomolets, is getting divorced, and the legal dispute over the assets he’s acquired during his marriage has revealed that the man is apparently worth a whopping 30 billion rubles ($441.2 million). According to Mskagency.ru, his soon-to-be ex-wife wants to split the lion’s share of that wealth (approximately 27 billion rubles, says journalist Alexander Plushev).

A source told the news outlet that roughly 1.5 billion rubles of Gusev’s money is invested in real estate in and around Moscow. The rest is found in corporate shares, including stock in the publishing houses that own and manage Moskovsky Komomolets.

In May 2018, Gusev, who also serves as the head of the Moscow Journalists’ Union, condemned the media boycott against State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky, following sexual harassment allegations from multiple women journalists. After the women came forward, Gusev accused them of “degrading journalism” by staying silent for years.