[2] The first major step for Malova as a model was the "Ford Supermodel of Russia 1993"[3] contest which was held in Moscow in late November 1992.
In 1995 she left Moscow, spent six weeks learning English in Florida, where she met Donald Trump, who at the time was still married to his second wife, Marla Maples.
[7] After the pageant she became a popular socialite girl in New York, and was the face of some commercials and advertising such as Chopard and Home Shopping Network.
Malova signed up with Karin Models, which had been founded by Jeffrey Epstein's friend Jean-Luc Brunel.
[10][11] In 2019 a federal judge in New York released flight logs that showed she flew on board Epstein's plane nicknamed the Lolita Express, with heiress Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son, from Epstein's private island in the Virgin Islands Little St. James (a.k.a.