However, she was found to have a broken spine and several broken limbs after she attended a ‘porta potty’ party in the UAE.
Now, Maria is wheelchair-bound and struggles to walk as a result of her health issues following the incident.
These infamous parties involve wealthy men offering large amounts of money and expensive items to young women, often with many social media followers, to abuse and degrade them.
Maria was in a coma after it was suggested through her injuries that she’d ‘fallen from a height.’
Now with multiple head wounds and a scarred face, her mother revealed that her hair was ‘shorn with a knife and scalped.’
New details have come out about the ‘abuse’ endured by the model, as she is being taken care of by her mother, Anna.
Speaking on Ukrainian TV during Hovoryt vsia kraina, Anna said that new medical images revealed the chilling knife scar that went from her forehead to the top of her skull.
Calling it a ‘shock’, the mum explained: “If you saw the stitches on the head, how the scalp [had to be] sewn back on.”
She claimed that it was done in an attack on her daughter, something that Maria has no recollection of, adding: “It looked as if it was done with a knife from the centre of the head all the way down to the eye, and the hair was cut off.”
Maria was invited to a party in a five star hotel in Dubai by the son of a businessman, which was attended by several other wealthy men.
Anna had no idea why her daughter’s hair was cut off, explaining that there was a ‘massive wound’ found on her head.
Maria was said to have had ‘three operations on one leg, three on the other, two on her spine, and one on her shoulder blade’ as a result.
She further detailed: “One leg has an open fracture with ten centimetres [4 inches] of bone missing.
“She currently has an implant from the hip down. That leg is now paralysed, with no sensation.”
It’s been revealed that two Russians, who were accused of their involvement in the events, have publicly denied the charges despite being at the three day party.
Police investigated the theory of Maria leaving the party to carry out a suicide attempt by jumping from eight floors at a nearby construction site, though a neurosurgeon said her wounds didn’t line up with this theory.
They suggested that Maria was beaten, hit by a car, or thrown out of one.
Her mother said that the ‘tearing under both armpits and a broken collarbone’ made it look like she’d ‘been dragged: “I believe they beat her and threw her from the car.”
The suicide case was closed by the prosecutor in Dubai, with no-one currently being held for causing the model’s severe injuries.
Recalling that her daughter’s passport, phone, and belongings were taken from her at the party, Anna claimed ‘they wanted to break her psychologically.’
While Maria’s medical bills were covered by Dubai police in exchange for an agreement not to bad mouth local authorities, it isn’t clear where the model went for five hours before being found at a construction site.
The mum claimed that they had gotten threats online for speaking about the events, saying: “I got a disappearing message on my phone.
“It read: ‘We’ll find you even in Norway.’”