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Mel Gibson’s wife Robyn shocked Hollywood yesterday when she filed for divorce from the actor, whom she’s been married to for almost three decades. And today rumors are abound that Gibson was romantically linked to a Russian singer named Oksana Kolesnikova.

The "Lethal Weapon" actor was photographed last month in Costa Rica with a bikini-clad woman believed to be the Kolesnikova. However, celebrity website TMZ tracked down a spokesperson for Kolesnikova, who said there was no affair of the heart.

Sorry to hear about Mel Gibson’s divorce. Somehow Oksana is being linked to Mr. Gibson, but there are no emotional ties between the two that I am aware of. Oksana has in the past entertained Mr. Gibson with her piano music as he dined at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Yes, I definitely welcome the opportunity to set the record straight, our Oksana is not romantically involved with Mr. Gibson.

Court papers reveal that Mel and Robyn, 52, have been separated since August 26, 2006 — a month after Gibson was caught driving under the influence and made a string of anti-Semitic rants.

Oksana Kolesnikova is a Russian with a distinctly American story: an unknown artist striving to make it big in the music business. Of course, not many boast a repertoire in which Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Led Zeppelin go toe to toe with Bach, Mozart and Schumann. But they all share the same American dream, even if this one happens to have sprung from Russia and Rome.

"For those of you who would like to hear full versions, stop by my booth. I'll play you any of them, or any ones you request," she tells the listeners, her words tinged with the accent of a person born in Siberia and raised in Kazakhstan -- before settling with her family in St. Petersburg in 1993.

She was a little girl in Russia studying classical piano from the age of 5, winning her first competition at 9. But once a week, she loved to watch an overdubbed, mid '80s sitcom starring Yakov Smirnoff called What A Country.

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