Meet Putin's flame-haired femme fatale spy named among Maxim mag's sexiest 100 women

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James Bond villain but she was actually a real life spy dispatched by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin to infiltrate America - before becoming a sultry Maxim magazine covergirl.The super-glamourous, flame-haired femme fatale from Russia posed as an American in the US to feed information back to her homeland.And she showed just how she was able to charm her way to hearts of her targets when dressed in Agent Provocateur lingerie on the front cover of a leading men's magazine and named one of Russia's 100 most sexiest women.These days, Anna is a TV host and celebrity with an army of followers on social media, but she first came to attention when her cover was blown as a Kremlin spy in America.It certainly sounds like the stuff of TV fiction, but Chapman, from Volgograd, was part of a secretive program tasked with conducting operations inside the United States.She was born Anna Kushchenko and gained an economics degree from Moscow University before she met her future husband Alex Chapman in London in 2001.After the couple married Chapman gained a British passport and worked at a bank before moving to New York, but the marriage was not to last and in 2006 the pair divorced.In 2018 it was reported that Alex had died two years previously with his family not wishing to share the details of his death but insisting it was nothing suspicious.Chapman’s secretive work in the US was dubbed The Illegals Program by the Department of Justice and its discovery was one of the biggest spy rings found on American soil.It was alleged that while she was active she attempted to seduce a cabinet member of the Obama administration and came very close to fulfilling her task.Had it been successful, Chapman could have gained access to highly sensitive.