Jorrit Joost Faassen (born 24 February 1980) is a Dutch businessman. He was allegedly the husband of
Maria Vorontsova
Maria Vorontsova ( rus, Мария Воронцова, Mariya Vladimirovna Putina, Мария Владимировна Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eld ...
Faassen was born in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands, the elder of two sons born to Jozef Faassen and Felicitas van de Stadt. His father was a naval officer in Willemstad,
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
until 1986, a colonel in the 1990s and then a head of department in the
Royal Netherlands Navy
The Royal Netherlands Navy ( nl, Koninklijke Marine, links=no) is the naval force of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
During the 17th century, the navy of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world an ...
. Faassen is a nephew of the Dutch painter Casper Faassen.
He studied architecture at the Hague University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2004.
On 15 April 2006, he moved to Moscow where he had been a director at
Stroytransgaz
OAO Stroytransgaz (russian: Стройтрансгаз) is a Russian engineering construction company in the field of oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1990. It was originally a subsidiary of Gazprom, but now controlled by Gennady T ...
but left that post to take a top posting in 2007 at
Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐzˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. As of 2019, with sales over $120 billion, it was ranked as the larges ...
, where he no longer works. He was the deputy chairman of MEF Audit, a Russian consulting group, until mid 2015 when MEF Audit removed his name from their website.
Faassen married
Maria Vorontsova
Maria Vorontsova ( rus, Мария Воронцова, Mariya Vladimirovna Putina, Мария Владимировна Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eld ...
, the eldest daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, in summer 2008 in Wassenaar in the Netherlands.
On 14 November 2010, along the Rublevskoye Highway (russian: Рублёвское шоссе) near Moscow, Faassen was beaten by four bodyguards of the Russian banker Matvey Urin, the co-owner of Trado-Bank (russian: АКБ «Традо-Банка» (ЗАО)), previously the head of Breeze Bank (russian: «Бриз-Банка») and associated with four other Moscow banks, all six of which subsequently went bankrupt. A half hour after this occurred, Urin was detained and later incarcerated at
Butyrka
Butyrskaya prison ( rus, Бутырская тюрьма, r= Butýrskaya tyurmá), usually known simply as Butyrka ( rus, Бутырка, p=bʊˈtɨrkə), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. In Imperial Russia i ...
and subsequently lost his wealth and vast holdings. Urin received a 8.5 year sentence and was released in September 2018.
Faassen and Vorontsova have a son, born in August 2012. In 2013, they were living in a
penthouse
Penthouse most often refers to:
*Penthouse apartment, a special apartment on the top floor of a building
*Penthouse (magazine), ''Penthouse'' (magazine), a British-founded men's magazine
*Mechanical penthouse, a floor, typically located directly u ...
atop the highest residential building in Voorschoten; they lived in the Crimea district ( nl, De Krim) of Voorschoten with neighbors fearing for their safety following what had happened to Matvey Urin. In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukraine. In 2015, they were reported to be living in Moscow.
In 2022, it was reported that Faassen and Vorontsova are no longer married.