Russian tycoon Sergey Grishin, tells of his Ex-lover terrifying threats

The Russian banking tycoon who sold Harry and Meghan their Californian dream home left his girlfriend fearing for her life following a series of terrifying threats, she claims.

So-called 'Scarface Oligarch' Sergey Grishin, 54, who the Royal couple paid $14,650,000 for his luxury mansion in June, is accused of issuing a series of chilling threats to his former lover Ekaterina Loginova, 30, when she left him, which included getting her jailed, making her child an 'orphan'.

'To flee is not a solution…because I will be looking [for you] always and everywhere,' he is said to have told the glamour model in a terrifying video.

And in other messages she received said: 'You will be literally ripped into pieces' and in another message sent 30 minutes later she was warned her then eight-month-old son Mark would 'end up in an orphanage'.

Speaking exclusively to Ms Loginova wondered how much the Duke and Duchess of Sussex knew about the former owner of the Chateau of Riven Rock in Santa Barbara before the sale.

'I like Meghan and Harry - they do not deserve any such problems,' said the model.

'I was just shocked they did not check the seller before the transaction.'

Grishin is a Russian-American billionaire entrepreneur who was president and chairman of the RosEvro Group.

Nicknamed the 'Scarface oligarch' due to his earlier purchase of the 'Scarface' estate - where Tony Montana got blown to bits and Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein also stayed - he made several videos on his private Gulfstream jet which purported to confess to involvement to financial machinations in the Reds-to-Riches 1990s in Russia.

Grishin co-owned the Rosevrobank and claimed that he committed 'the largest bank fraud scheme ever', orchestrating a $60 billion heist from the Russian Central Bank.

He said he wanted to explain how 'a single person like me can cause the collapse of the Russian banking system', apparently as a come-on to the US authorities.

In one video filmed on his jet, he claimed he made Russian bankers use a Polish-designed pen to write cheques for $2million.

The special ink could then be made to vanish, allowing him to rewrite the cheque for $250million, he claimed.

This scam was earlier blamed on the Chechen mafia, he claimed.

The larger alleged robbery involved financial manipulations via Estonia at the time when the Soviet Union was collapsing into chaos, he said.

'Many people think that Chechens came up with a scheme with an advice. This is not true. I invented it. I stole a lot in Estonia and Russia. It was the largest fraud scheme, because no one knew exactly how much money was stolen,' he added.

Grishin has praised Trump and his slogan about making America great again, but made clear he wanted a US passport because: 'I want to be safe.

'I am kind of under fire right now by the criminal world of Russia…by the top government officials of Russia, too. '

Grishin spent ten years living in the house situated in the exclusive enclave in Santa Barbara.

He sold the seven-acre site, complete with pool, tennis court, guest quarters and stunning main house, to the Sussexes for a heavy discount, having previously asked £26million three years earlier.

Ekaterina briefly became chatelaine of Riven Rock in 2018, moving in with her mother and son for weekends and holidays after beginning a relationship with billionaire Grishin.