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Jari Komulainen is a Finnish businessman. He became famous by being married to the Finnish President Mauno Koivisto’s daughter, Assi Koivisto.
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Personal life
Jari Komulainen married Assi Koivisto, the daughter of President Mauno Koivisto in a lavish wedding in the Presidential summer palace, Kultaranta, in 1982. The couple divorced in the 1990s and did not have any children, which was speculated to be the cause to the divorce. Komulainen’s second marriage to Minna Brygger produced one child but did not last long as he already married Anitra Ahtola in 1998. The couple got divorced in 2003. Anitra Ahtola is a Finnish model and the first runner up in 1996 Miss Finland competition. The couple has two children.
Business
Komulainen got into a Russian submarine business with Russian partners and purchased a Juliett-class Soviet submarine K-77 in 1993, which he later chartered to the Intermedia Film Equities Ltd as a movie set of the K-19 Widowmaker movie starring Liam Neeson and Harrison Ford. The submarine was also used as a restaurant and Komulainen even held his own beauty pageant, Miss Submarine, on top of his K-77 in Helsinki. He later married the winner of the competition, Anitra Ahtola. In 2002, after the film wrapped up, the submarine was purchased by the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, towed to Collier Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island, and opened to the public in August 2002. Komulainen’s company, Solo International ltd, used Sanil Europe ltd to import scooters and bicycles to the Finnish market. The company had a turnover of 4 million Euros a year, however Komulainen sold Solo International Ltd to Solifer Group during the summer 2006.