The unidentified brunette who took pictures with Donald Trump on the Mar-a-Lago golf course and raised concerns about a security breach at the former president’s Palm Beach home has been referred to as everything from a Russian spy to a money launderer who pretended to be the heir to the illustrious Rothschild fortune.
However, 33-year-old Inna Yashchyshyn, a Ukrainian native, exclusively revealed to The Post that she is nothing like that. She said she was the target of a smear campaign that was reportedly carried out by a dumped boyfriend who hounded her, falsely accused her of being a spy for Vladimir Putin of Russia, and filed bogus lawsuits against her from Montreal to Miami in an absurd attempt to win her back.
“What boils my blood most is people even thinking I’m Russian or a Russian agent,” she said in a phone interview, refusing to disclose her current location for fear of reprisals. “Russian people don’t exist to me since they invaded my country and killed my family and took homes.”
A few days after hundreds of plainclothes FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago in search of classified data, Yashchyshyn, who claimed that her brother had been called up for military duty when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, gained international notice.
The images were taken in 2021 and made public by a Pittsburgh newspaper, which stated that Yashchyshyn had entered the compound undetected while assuming the identity of Anna de Rothschild in order to network and forge new business relationships. Now, Mark Warner (D-VA), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has announced he wants an investigation.
According to charges in court papers viewed by The Post, the accusations came from Valeriy Tarasenko, a Ukrainian-born entrepreneur with offices in Miami and Montreal who Yashchyshyn described as an aggressive former lover she met eight years ago.
Tarasenko identifies Yashchyshyn as “an active member of an international criminal organisation” in an affidavit he submitted to a Miami-Dade County court in February. He continued by outlining how she reportedly bought fake IDs using the surnames of some of the richest dynasties in the world. His declaration states that in addition to Rothschild, she also used the names Anna Kruger and Inessa Cavalli, which connected her to the Roberto Cavalli family and the Krugers of Canada, who built their money in paper and corrugated cardboard.
Yashchyshyn vehemently refuted Tarasenko’s claims that he worked for some of the most powerful and violent oligarchs in Russia as well as directly for Putin.
Tarasenko told The Post, “She is a fantastic con artist.” In his declaration, he included what he claimed to be a number of forged identification documents, stating that Yashchyshyn had bought them in order to “fraud US politicians and other influential individuals into believing that she is linked to the Rothschild dynasty.” According to court records, Yashchyshyn has a US passport with her picture and the name Anna de Rothschild, a Miami driver’s licence with the same pseudonym and the address of a colossal $18 million estate on Miami’s upscale San Marco Island, and several other documents.
In response to Tarasenko’s accusations, Yashchyshyn claimed that Tarasenko was the one who pressured her to form limited liability companies for him in Montreal and Miami, naming one of them Rothschild Media Label Inc. to aid in promoting his 18-year-old eldest daughter Sofiya’s budding music career.
“He felt that if Sofiya changed her last name to Rothschild, she would have a better chance of making it big in America,” Yashchyshyn told The Post, adding that Sofiya began referring to Yashchyshyn in public as “her aunt, Anna de Rothschild.”
