'If I stayed, he would kill me': Former Miss Ukraine who went missing from her Milan home before she was found in New York says she feared her billionaire husband would have murdered her if she hadn't fled
- Anna Zaiachkivska left her husband Gianluca Cervara and fled to New York
- He reported her missing after saying she just vanished from Milan home
- Billionaire later found she was in New York due to pictures on Instagram
- She now claims she was forced to leave the marriage as he was abusive
A Ukrainian beauty queen who left her Italian billionaire husband and was reported missing before turning up in New York has claimed he would have killed her if she hadn't fled.
Italian businessman Gianluca Cervara contacted police in Milan after his new wife Anna Zaiachkivska - winner of the 2013 Miss Ukraine beauty contest - vanished in July after telling him she was going outside to get some fresh air.
However, pictures then emerged on Instagram of Ms Zaiachkivska in the US with another man - prompting police to drop their investigation.
Speaking to the New York Post last night, she said: 'If I stayed, he would kill me - if not physically, then my spirit.
'I stopped modeling because I thought he would respect me. I was his rag doll.'
Anna Zaiachkivska with her husband Gianluca Cervara, who is suing her after finding out on social media that she had fled to the US after he had reported her missing to police. She claims she left the relationship, which had turned abusive
The 24-year-old model claims she left because her husband had been violent towards her, while Mr Cervara is now suing her for non-compliance with their marriage contract, stating that she had violated their pre-nup agreement.
But now she claims that when she left Milan, she had written to her husband telling him that she wanted to leave the relationship and that he knew exactly where she was going.
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Ms Zaiachkivska told the Post: 'He knew where I was. He’s trying to blacken my name because I left him. Freedom is more important than anything.
'I am at peace (in New York). I breathe freely when I walk down the street.'
Ms Zaiachkivska met her husband, 45, at a friend's birthday dinner last summer after moving to Milan to further her modelling career.
She had already walked in runway shows for the likes of Armani and landed campaigns with Ralph Lauren and Tods.
Ms Zaiachkivska, who won the Miss Ukraine beauty contest in 2013, disappeared from her home in Milan after saying she was going for some fresh air. She later turned up in New York
The model claimed she had been the victim of domestic violence, saying she was fed up of 'living in a golden cage'
Just months later they wed in a registry office but had been planning a formal church wedding due to be held this month.
However, Ms Zaiachkivska says not long after they got married she fled to her native Ukraine after the relationship became violent.
Police interest in the case cooled after pictures emerged on Instagram of Ms Zaiachkivska with another man in New York
She told Ukrainian website tochka.net: 'He raised his hands against me.
'The first time when he did it I ran away to my parents' house in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk.
'I did not tell them what the matter was. He came to get me, and I gave him a second chance, but during an argument he spat in my face, and I simply could not take it.
'I said I am going to leave him, but I changed my mind again.
'I had headaches for a week but Gianluca did not care about it. Finally I decided I needed to make changes as I was fed up of living in a golden cage and I ran away.'
After finally deciding to leave, she claims she left her jewelry and paintings in Milan and a note telling her husband she was moving out.
She says she took a train to Rome but once she got there, she decided she wanted to go to New York and found a friend to live with.
But despite leaving all her possessions behind as well as a life where she lived in a Milan penthouse and holidayed in Monte Carlo, she has no regrets.
However, Mr Cervara hit back and denied the abuse claims saying: 'Judging by her photos she is in New York and is working as a model there.
'She has lots of pretty photos taken in five-star hotels, she is posing with other men. She does not look unhappy at all.
'All I can say is she is not the person she is pretending to be.'
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