
OnlyFans model left for dead after ‘Dubai Porta Potty' party breaks silence… and reveals horror aftermath of ordeal
Maria Kovalchuk, 20, vanished for over a week in March before being discovered unconscious with horrific injuries, including a shattered spine and broken limbs.
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OnlyFans model Maria Kovalchuk, pictured in Norway with her mother Anna
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A large scar is visible across her forehead during an interview with Russian media
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The 20-year-old was found seriously wounded in Dubai after going missing for more than a week
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She had reportedly "fallen from a height" and was found inches from death after fleeing what some feared was a 'Porta Potty' party — a
Maria is now recovering in Norway, where her mother lives, and has told her side of the story for the first time.
She also revealed a prominent scar on her forehead after undergoing multiple surgeries.
Speaking to Russian news outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti, the model said: 'I mostly use a wheelchair and crutches.
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'I still have a leg fracture that's healing.
'I'm learning to walk with crutches again, but for now, the wheelchair is my main means of moving around.'
There were initial claims Maria had been kidnapped into a sex trafficking ring linked to the notorious 'Porta Potty' scene — disturbing events reportedly involving high-paying UAE clients who degrade women, often influencers, for large sums.
But Maria has now denied any involvement of Emirati citizens in her brutal ordeal.
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She instead accusing the privileged children of wealthy Russian and Ukrainian businessmen of abusing her after a wild party in a Dubai hotel.
Dark side of Dubai where Brit influencers are preyed upon for sex & women are brutalised at 'porta potty' parties
What are Porta Potty parties?
PORTA potty parties are events, usually in the United Arab Emirates, where women are paid large amounts of money to sexually gratify wealthy men - in often highly degrading ways.
It's thought that the women are sometimes duped into participating on false pretences - such as the promise of a modelling contract.
At the events, men exploit the opportunity to commit depraved acts on the women.
The name supposedly comes from the fact that the deeply disturbing acts can include men treating women as human toilets.
Women, often from ex-Soviet countries, are lured in by the promise of a glamorous lifestyle and highly paid careers in the oil-rich states.
An expert
Recruiters often target attractive women with online presences, or even TV stars.
Radha Stirling
, f
ounder and CEO of Detained in
Dubai, told The Sun: "It's exploitation disguised as glamour or opportunity. Women, in particular, are offered all sorts of opportunities in Dubai.
"They might be offered to come and model, to come and play music, or to expand their career in some way or another.
"But what they don't realise is that when they get there, they are essentially at the beck and call of whoever has brought them there.
"They're under their complete control and they put themselves in such a risky position where they could end up gang raped, they could end up drugged, they could end up dead."
According to Maria, she had missed her flight to Thailand while staying at the luxury Five Jumeirah Village hotel and was offered a place to stay by a 19-year-old man she had recently met at a karaoke bar.
He claimed his father could fly her out on a private jet.
What began as a seemingly harmless offer allegedly spiraled into a nightmare.
'They started teasing me, why I wasn't drinking,' she said.
'Then some aggressive pushes like pushing in the shoulders began.
'After that, they started making fun of me like 'you belong to us, we will do whatever we want'.'
She described how the group began smashing bottles and glass on the floor, making it impossible to move barefoot, and said they took her passport and belongings.
One of the girls allegedly left the hotel wearing Maria's clothes, ignoring her pleas.
She claims the men 'hinted' they wanted sex — and when she refused, things escalated.
'I did not reciprocate, and this aggression was also heating them up,' she said.
Maria says she tried to escape and hid at a nearby construction site — but was tracked down, beaten, and thrown from a ledge.
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Maria said she is recovering and on the road to being able to walk again
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Maria pictured after the attack in a hospital in Dubai
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The model accused 'Russian citizens' of beating her, throwing her from ledge and leaving her for dead
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'They practically tore the skin off her scalp, then threw her off a ledge onto the road,' the report states.
'I ran away… I ran to the nearest building, just scared, and ran in, hid there. It was just an unfinished building, open,' Maria recalled.
She was eventually found in a hotel bathrobe by a passing driver who called an ambulance.
She fell into a coma and remained unconscious for days.
CCTV footage that could have shown what happened was allegedly erased after three months, Maria claims, leaving no video evidence.
'The police waited until the cameras were automatically wiped… So now there's no evidence,' she said.
Dubai police are said to have detained the accused young men — briefly — but released them the following day, with the case reportedly closed.
'They now claim in their testimonies that they tried to find and help Maria and that she had asked to come to the party herself,' said her mother, Anna.
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It was initially thought she had attended a porta potty party with local UAE men
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She suffered a broken spine and multiple fractures to her limbs
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She slammed the official version of events as 'falsified' — including a police claim that Maria had tried to end her life.
'The [Dubai] police investigation indicated that Maria said that she was running away from sexual violence and then went to protect her honour, her dignity, decided to commit suicide,' Anna said.
'This statement was falsified.'
She also rejected reports that her daughter had been intoxicated, insisting medical tests showed no alcohol in her system.
Maria's mother revealed that her daughter's high-cost medical treatment in Dubai — running into the millions — was paid for by local authorities.
'I don't know how much they paid — the sum was colossal, millions,' she said.
Ostorozhno, Novosti reported that in exchange, she was asked not to say "anything that would cast the Emirate's authorities in a negative light".
The shocking case comes after months of speculation and media frenzy
Initial reports suggested she had been lured into a disturbing sex trap, with some linking her disappearance to the dark world of elite 'Porta Potty' parties in the UAE.
A source close to Maria previously said she had been abused not by Emirati men, but by 'Russian citizens who tortured Maria'.
'She was found with a broken spine, arms and legs — and unable to speak,' the insider said.
One fellow model described such elite parties as involving 'rape, beatings, and mistreatment,' often under the false promise of money and fame.
Before her disappearance, Maria had appeared at a Dubai event supporting jailed Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, who has been sentenced to five years for allegedly justifying terrorism.
His daughter, Ksenia, previously said: 'She will be able to walk… This is all very good news. But the details will come later, when she leaves the country.'
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It doesn't discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society – from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers.
It's the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes.
And men are three times more likely to take their own life than women.
Yet it's rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now.
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