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Irish Independent
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Ksenia Samotiy: Rebel leader or sexual fantasy in a gold bikini? What Star Wars tells us about women being sidelined in their own story
Pop culture has long treated female interest in 'Star Wars' as either accidental or secondary – and the films themselves don't always help 'Things I never thought would happen No. 42: Ksenia sending me Star Wars-related memes' texted my boyfriend a couple of days ago, as he bravely battled through the backlog of Instagram reels I'd sent him. He's not wrong. Until a few days ago, the likelihood of me understanding a Star Wars meme was lower than the chance of something sensible coming out of Donald Trump's mouth. What's equally remarkable is how I finally saw the light (saber). It's not that I didn't know anything about Star Wars, more that I'd never watched the source material. I mostly knew of it from other things, such as the fact that for Ross from Friends, his ultimate sexual fantasy was Leia in a golden bikini. Most of all, though, I knew about Star Wars from my religious dedication to The Big Bang Theory. Not that I'm comparing myself with Penny, of course, but like her (at least in the earlier seasons), I have expressed bemusement when nerdy guys try to indoctrinate me about Star-related franchises, confident that I most definitely have better things to do with my time.
Irish Independent
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Ksenia Samotiy: I'm late to the 'Star Wars' party but it makes all the difference when a woman shows you the ways of the Force
Pop culture has long treated female interest in 'Star Wars' as either accidental or secondary – and the films themselves don't always help 'Things I never thought would happen No. 42: Ksenia sending me Star Wars-related memes' texted my boyfriend a couple of days ago, as he bravely battled through the backlog of Instagram reels I'd sent him. He's not wrong. Until a few days ago, the likelihood of me understanding a Star Wars meme was lower than the chance of something sensible coming out of Donald Trump's mouth. What's equally remarkable is how I finally saw the light (saber). It's not that I didn't know anything about Star Wars, more that I'd never watched the source material. I mostly knew of it from other things, such as the fact that for Ross from Friends, his ultimate sexual fantasy was Leia in a golden bikini. Most of all, though, I knew about Star Wars from my religious dedication to The Big Bang Theory. Not that I'm comparing myself with Penny, of course, but like her (at least in the earlier seasons), I have expressed bemusement when nerdy guys try to indoctrinate me about Star-related franchises, confident that I most definitely have better things to do with my time.
Daily Mirror
12-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Model found dumped on road with broken spine was 'tortured by Russians'
A 20-year-old OnlyFans model from Ukraine was found on the roadside in Dubai after suffering horrific injuries and it was initially thought she had attended a notorious "Porta Potty" event An OnlyFans model who was feared to have been kidnapped into sexual slavery and later found badly injured had been 'tortured by Russians'. The 20-year-old from Ukraine was discovered on a roadside in Dubai with a broken spine and limbs. She had been in a coma after she was found close to death having 'fallen from a height'. Initial reports alleged the model had attended a so-called Porta Potty event at which female social influencers and models can be paid huge sums to be subjected to extreme and degrading abuse. But now a source close to the Ukrainian model has insisted that she was abused by unidentified Russians in the UAE - and not local citizens - before she was discovered in March. The source also denied multiple reports that the model had left Dubai and was convalescing in Ukraine. 'We are in Dubai,' said the source. 'And it was Russian citizens who tortured (the model). UAE citizens have nothing to do with it. That's all I can say for now.' The Onlyfans model is 'getting better' but remains under treatment for her horrific ordeal. 'She is getting better, thank you,' said the source, who said they 'hoped' local police were investigating the 'Russians' who 'tortured' her, and also condemned 'false' reporting about her case. Dubai police are known to be investigating the woman's horror ordeal, and a Ukrainian criminal case was opened into 'human trafficking'. The new account comes after multiple Ukrainian and Russian reports said she had been abused after attending a party in Dubai. Ukrainian news outlet 24TV said another model who had 'managed to escape from the fateful party' claimed it was a 'trap'. 'Before the party and the trip to the villa, women were forced to sign a contract, according to the terms of which they had to simply accompany wealthy men,' stated the report. 'However, in reality, women were raped, beaten and mistreated.' The source, named as Ksenia, said: 'Loud screams were constantly heard from closed rooms.' A report by Obozrevatel - another Ukrainian news outlet - cited another Ukrainian OnlyFans model, Dubai-based Alyona Omovich, 29, saying: 'Let's call things by their name. 'You can tell from her appearance that she was involved in something horrific. And that horror, apparently, is what led to her being so badly broken.' She revealed a circuit of degrading 'elite parties' when foreign models and influencers are 'promised large sums —tens of thousands of dollars — in exchange for actions that border on violence, humiliation, and even physical mutilation'. Before vanishing, the model had earlier participated in an event in Dubai in support of a Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, jailed in his own country. Kagarlitsky had described a Ukrainian October 2022 explosion on the £3 billion Crimean Bridge as understandable 'from a military point of view' and was imprisoned for five years for 'justifying terrorism'. Kagarlitsky's daughter Ksenia said that the woman was 'conscious' and that 'she will be able to walk' despite the injuries she sustained. 'This is all very good news. But the details will come later, when she leaves the country,' she stated, and added that the attack had been 'psychologically very difficult'.
