Barbara stcherbatcheff biography
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EXCLUSIVEBestselling author turned fugitive Barbara Stcherbatcheff's double life on the lam in the Bahamas REVEALED
She is best known for her bestselling memoir about life as a ballsy female investment banker in the cutthroat world of finance.
But the arrest of writer Barbara Stcherbatcheff, 43, in the Bahamas on international child kidnapping charges was a plot twist that none of her readers saw coming.
The author of Confessions of a City Girl triggered a global manhunt in February 2023 when she allegedly snatched her eight-year-old son Valentin from his father’s home in Switzerland and went on the run.
The Illinois native was eventually traced to the Bahamian island of New Providence where last month she was taken into custody and the little boy, now 10 years old, was found unharmed.
Now, as Stcherbatcheff languishes in jail awaiting extradition, DailyMail.com can reveal the full, stranger-than-fiction story of the peroxide-blonde socialite’s near two-year stint as a fugitive in paradise.
Far from laying low in her sun-drenched bolt hole, sources tell us the divorcee quickly became a fixture on Nassau’s lively social scene after arriving on the island in the spring of 2023 with a murky backstory.
Presenting herself as a chic, mysterious expat, Stcherbatcheff set ton
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EXCLUSIVEBestselling author Barbara Stcherbatcheff is arrested in Bahamas for 'kidnapping son' 'sexposé' author, 42,for two years
A bestselling 'sexposé' author has been arrested in the Bahamas for allegedly kidnapping her son and going on the run across the globe for nearly two years, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Barbara Stcherbatcheff, an American expat, investment banker, and former newspaper columnist, who wrote a book she subtitled 'The Devil Wears Pinstripes' vanished in February 2023 along with her eight-year-old boy Valentin Stankowski.
The blonde divorcee, 42, picked the youngster up from her ex-husband's home in Zurich, Switzerland, but failed to return him at the end of a week-long scheduled visit, according to authorities.
Interpol issued a 'yellow notice' missing person alert listing multiple countries – the UK, Ireland, Croatia, the US, Mexico, Belize, and Costa Rica - as possible places the fugitive mom could have taken Valentin.
But DailyMail.com can reveal the tug-of-love mystery was finally solved Tuesday when Bahamian cops swooped in on an exclusive gated community on the island of New Providence and located the pair.
Stcherbatcheff was staying 5,000 miles from her Zurich home with a local man described as her new boyfriend, a police source