Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin kept secret harem of barely legal women and believes

Russia warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin kept a secret harem of barely legal women in St Petersburg before his armed mutiny against Vladimir Putin, a report has claimed.

‘The mercenary boss likes his girls on the younger side but he also has an eccentric obsession with exchanging bodily fluids with virgins,’ according to independent Russian news and investigative outlet The Insider.

A woman who ‘sold her virginity to billionaire Prigozhin when she was 18’ – and now regrets the decision – said the Wagner private army boss ‘believes having sex with first-time partners prolongs his youth’.

The revelations come one month after the Wagner chief led a band of mercenaries in an uprising against Russia’s defence ministry that saw them seize the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and bear down on Moscow before calling off the mutiny. 

Wagner fighters have since entered Belarus and are helping to train Belarusian military units while Prigozhin, 62, appears to have temporarily secured his safety amid a deal with the Russian president.  

The allegations against the Wagner supremo, who some believe had ambitions to be Russian president, are stark and detailed.

‘Before his downfall and exile to Belarus, Prigozhin used to keep a rotating harem of very young (a little over 18) girls in rented rooms at the Solo Sokos Hotel in St. Petersburg,’ alleged The Insider.

A ‘sex workers’ union representative told the media outlet that ‘he had sex without a condom’ because ‘he believed that this is how he exchanges energy, fluids’.

‘It’s as if he receives a charge of vitality from them,’ they said.

A woman named only as Masha said she lost her virginity to the Wagner chief in 2019 when she was 18 and living in his home city St Petersburg.

‘I was deeply depressed and had to go to the hospital,’ she said.

‘At that time, I met another girl, around my age, and she had been kicked out of her home and she really needed money.

‘She asked me if I would like to sell my virginity for 40,000 rubles.’

The amount was at the time the equivalent of $623 or £482.

‘I was like, ”OK, let’s”, although I didn’t need the money that much myself.’

Masha was introduced to Prigozhin’s pimp, another woman in her 30s with long, dark hair, at a cafe on Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg’s main avenue, said The Insider.

‘She said I had to go to the clinic to have my virginity checked. I was sent to the Sogaz clinic, right there on the other side of Nevsky Prospekt.’

The ownership of this clinic has been linked to Putin’s elder daughter Maria Vorontsova, 38, and known to treat VIPs including Prigozhin.

‘At the reception desk, you had to say a password – ”women’s sports”,’ said Masha.

This indicated it was a hymen inspection ordered for Prigozhin.

‘After Masha’s virginity was confirmed, she was sent to the Solo Sokos Hotel on Vasilyevsky Island on the western side of the city,’ said the report.

‘It seems like there were always rooms reserved for him and the girls and there were always people who supervised them,’ the woman told the publication.

‘There were girls, not virgins, whom he paid 5,000 rubles [$78] for sex. They were the ones who told me that it was Prigozhin. They hadn’t seen him for several days.’

She claimed to have known at the time about Prigozhin and his private army, as well as his troll farms spouting pro-Putin propaganda on the internet.

‘In complete shock, I went to the hotel room and waited for him,’ she said. ‘He started knocking on the wrong door and thought that I was not opening it. He got angry.’

When he finally arrived, she ‘sat motionless on the bed’. ‘Everything was very fast,’ she said. ‘He just left the money in a pile on a chair.’

He also told her to ‘be nicer’ complaining of a ‘dour expression’ on her face as he took her virginity.

‘Even with my insane personality, selling my virginity to Prigozhin was a bit over the top,’ she said.

‘I felt really down. I remember that day I was thinking about not being late for a doctor’s appointment at the psychiatric hospital.’

The Insider alleged: ‘Masha was one of countless women Prigozhin has visited at the Solo Sokos, where his underlings kept a ready supply of them.

‘The virgins, Masha learned, he dubbed ”shampoo”, after the disposable bottles found in hotel bathrooms.

‘You open them and then toss them away.’

Prigozhin was nicknamed Putin’s chef after coming to prominence staging Kremlin banquets and winning lucrative Russian government catering contracts.

A Soviet-era prisoner convicted of robbery, he branched out into troll farms and built his mercenary army, which amid the war in Ukraine recruited tens of thousands of jail inmates, offering them a pardon if they stayed alive at the front line for six months.

An earlier leak on Prigozhin since his armed mutiny saw how he kept a cupboard full of wigs at his mansion.

He used the wigs and fake beards for disguises in Africa and the Middle East as he furthered Putin’s interests and deployed Wagner forces.

One disguise showed him as an Employee of the Ministry of Defence in Sudan, another as an assistant diplomat from Abu Dhabi.

In a third he was mocked up as a Senior Lieutenant from Benghazi in Libya.

The versatile Prigozhin – whose Wagner forces have been used in many countries – also posed as a colonel from Tripoli, a ‘merchant from Syria’, and a field commander named Mohammed.