Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories It all started, like so many things connected to Donald Trump, with a display of glitzy, low-brow entertainment. On a music video production set in Los Angeles, Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov shimmies down dark alleys shining a flashlight as he pursues a beautiful woman into an abandoned warehouse. He gyrates past a black Chevy muscle car and, inexplicably, a black stallion before finally locking on the gaze of the woman he was looking for: Olivia Culpo, the 2012 Miss Universe. The four-minute music video, shot in the course of a single day in the spring of 2013, marked the start of what would become a critical — and now, problematic — relationship between Donald Trump and a Russian family at the center of allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 election. Culpo was part of the Trump entertainment empire through her contract with the Miss Universe pageant, which Trump owned and produced. So Agalarov’s desire to have the international symbol of beauty perform with him in his video led him to the doorstep of the Miss Universe Organization, a block away from Trump Tower. The video would in short order lead to a deal to produce the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, at an Agalarov-owned theater. The deals heralded a deeper relationship between Trump and the Agalarovs, a family with a fortune built on real estate and entertainment that ... Link to the full article to read more