| Nicol Raidman | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Birth Name: | Nicol Raidman |
| Birth Date: | 11 June 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Instrument: | Saxophone |
| Years Active: | 2011–present |
| Occupation: | Singer, Businesswoman, Model |
Nicol Raidman (he|ניקול ראידמן, uk|Ніколь Райдман; 11 June 1986)[1] is a USSR-born Israeli figure, businesswoman and philanthropist's wife. She participated in two seasons of the Israeli reality show Me'usharot, Israel's answer to The Real Housewives franchise.[2]
Born in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, Raidman is an only child. Her father is a businessman, and her mother is a musician who ran the Conservatory in Ukraine and the "Tower of Light (theatre)", a Yiddish musical theater in Odesa. Nicol herself learned to play the saxophone in her youth.
In 1996, ten-year-old Raidman and her family emigrated to Israel. She worked as a salesperson in a toy shop. At the end of high school, she enrolled in communications and international relations at the Open University while working as a makeup artist and a production assistant.
In 2011 she opened a luxury clothing store, "Madame de Pompadour", in Tel Aviv. In April 2013, she launched a perfume bearing the name of the store and sold exclusively duty-free.In 2018, the store was closed.[3]
In 2019 she launched her singing career.[4] Aki Avni appears as her love interest in two music videos.[5] [6]
In September 2013, she filed a lawsuit against the "Clean Core Technologies" company that carried out fire damage repair work at her home in Herzliya. The lawsuit was for NIS 3.6 million..[7]
Raidman was married to the entrepreneur, Michael Cherney.[4] They have two children together, Michelle and Richard. They parted in mid 2019.
She is close friends with Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli politician, Benjamin Netanyahu.[4]
In 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, she donated NIS 300,000 to immediately buy protective vests for combat Israeli soldiers,[8] and another NIS 200,000 to buy food and clothing for soldiers.[9]