By JENNIFER SMITH
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The anti-Putin, Latvian-American businessman found dead in Washington DC this week fell to his death from a luxury apartment building with $2,600 cash on him, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Dan Rapoport, 52, was found outside 2400 M Apartments on August 14th shortly before 6pm. His body was discovered in the street along with his cracked cellphone, $2,620 cash, a keyring with a lanyard and a cracked white headphone.
Rapoport, a businessman who ran the iconic Soho Rooms nightclub in Moscow, lived in DC from 2012 until 2016 with his first wife, Irina.
Until this year, he had been living in Kyiv with his second wife, Ukrainian virologist Alena, and their young daughter. When was broke out in February, he sent them to Denmark and he returned to the US, planning to bring them over.
In recent months however, he’d been spotted in London ‘surrounded by girls’ in The Connaught Hotel, and he’d been telling international friends about being stiffed out of a $10,000 payment by a Russian VC firm.
It was initially reported by former Russian Tatler editor Yuniya Pugacheva this week, citing sources close to him, that he killed himself after setting his dog, Boy, free carrying a suicide note and cash.
DC Metropolitan police tell DailyMail.com an investigation is ongoing but they do not suspect any foul play. They area waiting a medical examiner’s report.