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Model heard four chilling words before being ‘thrown off roof’ after Dubai ‘porta potty party’
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Published 11:14 16 Sep 2025 GMT+1

Model heard four chilling words before being ‘thrown off roof’ after Dubai ‘porta potty party’

Maria Kovalchuk was abused and degraded while attending one of the infamous parties

Joshua Nair

Joshua Nair

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Warning: This article contains allegations which some readers may find distressing.

A model heard four words before being 'thrown off' a roof in Dubai after one of the city's infamous 'porta potty' parties.

Maria Kovalchuk said she was only in Dubai on that fateful March night after she missed her flight to Thailand.

The Ukrainian model would go missing for over a week, with loved ones fearing she had been sold into 'sexual slavery', but she would be found on a roadside, scalped and bloodied.

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Kovalchuk would be rushed to hospital with serious injuries, including a broken spine and numerous limbs.

A BBC documentary, Death in Dubai: #Dubaiportapotty, recently delved into the dangers around 'porta potty parties' and how women were tricked and trafficked into the industry after being promised a career in the Middle Eastern city.

Known as a 'porta potty party', these involve models with large social media followings being enticed by rich men to perform degrading and humiliating acts for them in exchange for money, gifts or free stays in lavish hotels.

Maria Kovalchuk is one of many victims of Dubai's 'porta potty' parties (Instagram/marielouna__)
Maria Kovalchuk is one of many victims of Dubai's 'porta potty' parties (Instagram/marielouna__)

Two women, Monic Karungi and Kayla Birungi, fell to their deaths from high-rise buildings after travelling to the city, with filmmaker Runako Celina determined to get to the bottom of the true story in the documentary.

Both deaths were ruled as suicides.

Kovalchuk was lucky enough to escape death, though, and she spoke to a Russian news outlet about the incident in the summer, revealing she is in a wheelchair and cannot walk without assistance.

After being invited to a party by a young Russian man in a hotel lobby, she said that she would soon be teased for not drinking, before being shoved and 'intimidated' with broken glass by other businessmen who demanded she carry out sexual acts with them.

When she tried to escape, she remembered them taking her personal belongings and saying 'you belong to us', which she tried to 'take as a joke' at first, but they refused to let her leave, physically 'dragging her back in'.

The model says she was told 'you belong to us' (Instagram/marielouna__)
The model says she was told 'you belong to us' (Instagram/marielouna__)

After being found by the 'rich Russian kids' on a construction site, they 'beat her' in a sequence of events which Kovalchuk doesn't remember exactly, though her injuries were consistent with a fall from height.

She said: "I think that maybe I was thrown. Or it was a beating. One of two options, the injuries looked like either a beating or a fall.

"Most likely, there was a blow to the head, I suppose. The next scene [that] I remember is me asking for help from a passing car, which had already stopped and called an ambulance and the police."

She also alleged that CCTV footage of the attack was wiped, leaving 'no evidence'.

A report said that police detained the men accused for a day, with no apparent charges made against them, as they'd claimed they tried to find Kovalchuk to help her.

While local authorities paid 'millions' for her medical bills, her mother, Anna, claims they'd reportedly 'asked not to say anything that would cast the Emirates authorities in a negative light'.

Featured Image Credit: Instagram/marielouna__

Topics: Dubai, OnlyFans, World News, Crime

Joshua Nair
Joshua Nair

Joshua Nair is a journalist at LADbible. Born in Malaysia and raised in Dubai, he has always been interested in writing about a range of subjects, from sports to trending pop culture news. After graduating from Oxford Brookes University with a BA in Media, Journalism and Publishing, he got a job freelance writing for SPORTbible while working in marketing before landing a full-time role at LADbible. Unfortunately, he's unhealthily obsessed with Manchester United, which takes its toll on his mental and physical health. Daily.

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