She moved to Paris when she was 17, becoming friends with Ukrainian-born model and actress Olga Kurylenko appearing in commercial campaigns together.
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Zubakova stated "I got back late one night about 11:30pm. I came to the door and it fell down on one side. It had been broken down with force. I walked in and everything was turned upside down. The computer was missing, the telephone. I thought I’d been robbed. But I looked at the shelf where my watches were – there were some expensive ones such as Rolex and Cartier – and they were still there."