9 Russian celebrities who turned out to be bad businessmen: Mikhail Galustyan, Olga Buzova, etc

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Some celebrities take the expression "a talented person is talented in everything" too literally, and, deciding that a big name is enough to make a profit, rush to open a business. However, not all of them take into account the fact that any business can be promoted only by hard work, and money itself will not fall from the sky. Of course, there are those among celebrities who were able to achieve success, but among them there are much more of those who have gone bankrupt. We remember the loudest failures.

Alexander Petrov

Alexander Petrov is one of the most sought-after modern actors: almost every domestic film with his participation becomes a hit. Many viewers and even colleagues of the artist are unsuccessfully trying to unravel the secret of his popularity, therefore, apparently, the star decided to tell everything herself: last year the young man announced the opening of his own acting courses.

There were many who wanted to learn from Petrov himself, but the business project was never launched. It turned out that Alexander had problems with documents. However, the tax office nevertheless decided to visit the address where the institution was registered. But in the indicated place there was no school. As a result, the actor was excluded from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Petrov himself did not give any comments, but fans believe that the courses could not be opened due to the strong employment of the celebrity.

Mikhail Galustyan

It seems that the pandemic, which has been going on for several months, has hit the pockets of not only ordinary entrepreneurs. The affairs of famous people did not survive the stagnation. So, recently it became known that two enterprises of Mikhail Galustyan went bankrupt at once.

In July, the Top Film Comedy company was forced to close, 15% of the shares of which belonged to the famous comedian. Following this news came another one: the company "Weiserlife" also filed for bankruptcy. It is known that the business project was supposed to release applications for smartphones, but in fact the idea remained unrealized, and Galustyan, who is the only founder, was deprived of the right to take actions without a power of attorney.

Garik Kharlamov

Galustyan's colleague Garik Kharlamov also suffered losses. Recently, the popular comedian has so many problems: a divorce from Christina Asmus, which seems to be complicated by the division of jointly acquired property. And then the difficulties in business arrived in time: “The creative agency“Bulldog”, engaged in advertising, announced its closure. Kharlamov was the co-owner of the company. Due to the fact that the company had not made deductions for a long time, the tax officials arrived at the legal address. But, as it turned out, there is no company there. Later it turned out that the company had moved to a new location. In what, it was not possible to find out

Garik also planned to open the Buldog moda website, but the idea remained unrealized, and the comedian was forced to sell the remnants of the collection of clothes with very large discounts.

Olga Buzova

The omnipresence of Olga Buzova can only be envied: she is the host, the actress, the singer, the writer, the designer, and the businesswoman. We will not now talk about how the girl manages to keep up with everything, and whether she does it well, but let us dwell on the last point.

In 2018, Buzova pompously and solemnly opened the Buzfood restaurant chain. The scale of the event could be judged by the fact that traffic on Tsvetnoy Boulevard was almost completely paralyzed, and several thousand of Olga's young fans staged a real crush, wanting to get a free salad from the star. However, almost immediately rumors spread that the celebrity herself had hired extras. … Whether it is true or not, it is not known, but after a year and a half, all the star's restaurants closed. It turned out that they were not in demand at all.

However, Buzova, as usual, did not comment on the next business failure in any way, and there were many of them. At one time, she intended to launch her own cryptocurrency, but the venture failed at the initial stage. The presenter did not succeed in becoming a writer: readers did not want to buy her books about the difficult path to success even for a penny.

Timati

You cannot call Timati a bad businessman, remember only the Black Star label, at the origins of which he stood, but recently left, and the fast food chain. However, not all of the musician's business projects were successful, and the first attempts to open his own business can be called failure at all.

It all started back in 2004, when the rapper got the idea to organize his own B-club. Two years later, he opened a restaurant "Black October", and a little later - "Black Star" right on the roof of the shopping center. It cannot be said that these places were unpopular, but still they could only last a couple of seasons. And then Timati simply closed them and returned to the issue of building catering establishments only ten years later, having opened a chain of burger shops.

Sergey Lazarev

The popular singer also did not want to stay away from successful colleagues and planned to organize his own business. True, he approached the question in an original way, opening, together with a friend, a confectionery for … dogs and cats "Poodle-Strudel". The opening of the cafe for pets took place in a solemn atmosphere in the presence of numerous star friends of Lazarev and journalists.

However, Sergey went out of business a year ago. Although it was previously said that the company brings in monthly income of 2 million rubles, in fact it turned out that it was suffering large losses. As a result, the pastry shop was closed, and its employees were left without salaries.

Alexander Revva

In 2001, the singer and showman announced that he was planning to open a chain of restaurants of Italian cuisine and for a start he launched the Spaghetteria project. But Alexander's large-scale plans were not destined to come true, and the only brainchild was closed after a couple of years, unable to withstand the competition.

But Revva still did not give up trying to organize his own food outlet, and in 2017 announced the opening of "Chicha Bar", but this time making a choice in favor of Peruvian cuisine. But this restaurant did not last long either.

Tarzan

Several months ago, Sergey Glushko (the artist's real name) received a flurry of criticism because of his words that he endures difficult times and does not receive help from the state. The striptease star did not achieve pity, but she received a lot of advice on where to find a part-time job, from taxi to agriculture. Jokes are jokes, but the man really lost his business.

As it turned out, due to quarantine, Tarzan was forced to close the fitness center and beauty salons. According to his wife, singer Natasha Koroleva, they do not plan to open them again. However, by her own admission, nothing globally terrible has happened, and she hopes that the hard times will soon end.

Stas Kostyushkin

It seems like celebrities think the restaurant business is a goldmine. However, most of them, believing that a well-known name is enough for a profitable business, fail. So Stas Kostyushkin at one time could not get himself started and become a successful entrepreneur.

And at first everything was quite optimistic: the singer was fired up with the idea of opening a cafe right in the Sheremetyevo Aeroexpress. The brainchild of the artist differed from other institutions in that it was possible to smoke there. The visitors liked the idea. However, six months after the opening, a law banning smoking in public places came into force, and Kostyushkin had to close the outlet. But it would be okay to just liquidate the institution, but Stas also incurred losses in the amount of 4 million rubles.

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