Has former Miss Moscow Oksana Voevodina married Malaysia’s king Sultan Muhammad V?

Dec 3 , 2018

Social media in Malaysia is abuzz with speculation that Oksana Voevodina (above), a former Miss Moscow and Russian model, has married the nation’s king, Sultan Muhammad V. Photo: Instagram @apegeo

Social media and newspaper reports – still not officially confirmed – suggest the king, 49, has married the former model, 25, in a concert hall in Moscow

Malaysian social media is still abuzz with speculation about the supposed marriage between the Asian nation’s king, Sultan Muhammad V and the Russian model Oksana Voevodina.

So far there has been no official confirmation from either the Istana Negara, the king’s Kuala Lumpur residence, or Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

One Malaysian newspaper report suggested that the king, 49, also known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, married the former Miss Moscow, 25, in a concert hall in Moscow on November 22.

Photographs, said to be of their wedding, have been widely circulated on social media.

A Malaysian tabloid reported that the wedding supposedly served halal food and was alcohol-free.

Voevodina is said to have met the king 18 months ago when she was modelling luxury watches and she subsequently converted to Islam.

She has adopted a Muslim name and will be known as Rihana Oxana Gorbatenko – the Gorbatenko her father’s surname, one report said.

Gorbatenko, who is a doctor, appeared in a photograph beside Voevodina taken at the Miss Moscow pageant.

Voevodina is believed to be a business graduate from the elite Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

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