Isabelle vital biography

Ieva Lešinska always knew her father had an unusual job.

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He was constantly abroad, always sending gifts. He worked as an agent for the KGB, her mother told her.He was also a high-ranking official in the Communist Party in Latvia, then part of the USSR. He was well liked. He was successful.

Then one day in 1978, when Lešinska was 18, her father invited her to visit New York, where he was staying with her stepmother.

After being granted official permission by Moscow, she left for the West.

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It was the first time she had ever left the Soviet Union and once she arrived, she was a bit disappointed.

“New York was full of potholes at that time,” she laughs. “It was known as being quite a scary place back then.”

Lešinska was surprised to be staying in a luxurious hotel with her father and stepmother, which cost $300 (£260) a night, a hugely extravagant amount at the time.

She didn’t understand how her father c