Milena Kacavenda: I Think Some Dinars Are Missing

Vanja Zivic handed Milena Kacavenda an envelope of cash in the middle of the Narod pita broadcast on Pink TV, in the episode aired on August 13, and host Ana Radulovic counted the banknotes on camera. Kacavenda said right afterward that the amount was not complete.

The two former friends have spent months trading accusations through the media and reality shows, arguments that until now had been limited to words. This time there was actual cash in the studio. Alongside them, Marko Janjusevic Janjus was also a guest on the same episode.

As soon as Radulovic finished counting, Kacavenda said the account was not settled.

“I think some dinars are missing. I lent her 5,000 euros and 200,000 dinars,” Milena Kacavenda said on the show.

How much money is in dispute?

Kacavenda points to two separate amounts that, by her account, are not the same thing. The first is a loan of 5,000 euros, the second is 200,000 dinars that she says she paid for a boutique. Also disputed is who the money was supposed to pass through.

“I gave you 5,000 euros and paid 200,000 for the boutique, remember the 200,000?” Kacavenda asked.

Zivic denied both claims, and rejected most sharply the suggestion that the money had been delivered through a go-between.

“This is Alzheimer’s at this point. Lazar never brought me a single dinar,” Vanja Zivic replied.

After the counting, several things remained unresolved on air:

• whether, on top of the amount handed over, there was also a debt of 200,000 dinars
• who physically delivered that money, and when
• whether the boutique payment was a loan or a gift

Neither woman produced a receipt, a contract or messages during the broadcast. Only the contents of the envelope were actually counted, everything else stayed one claim against another.

The phone call that changed the subject

The argument moved from money to private relationships when a viewer called into the show. She did not ask about euros or dinars, she addressed Vanja Zivic directly.

“Where is that most basic thing, respect your elders and don’t touch what isn’t yours? You took something that belonged to Milena,” the viewer said.

Zivic asked to be told exactly who that referred to. When a name came through the phone line, it raised the question of whether Janjus and Kacavenda had once been a couple.

“They ended that a long time ago,” Zivic said.

A few moments later she said a sentence that stopped the studio for a second.

I’m a mistress and I stole a boyfriend from a friend. That’s my fetish. I love stealing guys from my girlfriends.

Kacavenda answered with a single comment on the whole situation: “This is a recycling bin.”

Who else got pulled into the story

As the show went on, other reality cast members’ names entered the argument. Zivic brought up Janjus and Bobanac, claiming that what bothered Kacavenda was that the two of them had taken her side. She also mentioned Zana Omnia, who used to be close with Vanja Zivic and is now on good terms with Kacavenda.

Zivic also spoke about a conversation she says she had with their mutual friend Tanja, and said she was ready to take a polygraph test over it. That claim was not confirmed by the other side during the broadcast.

What this means ahead of the new season

Milena Kacavenda had mostly been in the news over her contract for Elita 10, after she said she may have already signed it. Now, a few weeks before the new season starts, she has an open dispute that has moved out of private messages and into live television, with a host counting someone else’s money.

Neither side has said the dispute will be settled off camera. The envelope has been handed over, the money has been counted, and the amount they disagree on still has not been proven by anyone.