Goca Bozinovska Reveals Club Owner's Money for Sex Offer

Serbian singer Goca Bozinovska has spoken openly about prostitution in the pop music scene. In comments carried by Kurir, she said that a club owner once approached her directly during a performance and offered her money for sex afterward.

Bozinovska says the topic is neither new nor unfamiliar in her world. According to her, colleagues have known for years among themselves who was involved in it, even as the subject stayed off the record in public.

“It was always there, we colleagues knew among ourselves what was going on and who was into it. I’d go do a gig and some owner would show up and ask how much to give you, how much you cost. I’d think he means the pay for the gig, but no, he means how much you cost after the gig. Get lost, I told him, and that’s why I’ve lost so many gigs in my life. It used to be kept quiet, but we always knew among ourselves who was into it. What good is that dirty money to them, you go off into some two by two room and that’s that,” Bozinovska said candidly.

Did Turning Him Down Cost Her the Gig?

By her own account, she reacted sharply to the club owner’s offer and never performed there again. She says refusing propositions like that one did not come without a cost to her career, and that taking the stand she did cost her a large number of bookings.

Bozinovska does not name the club or the owner in question, nor does she say exactly when the incident took place. She presents it as an example of what she describes as having long been an everyday reality on the gig circuit across the Serbian pop scene.

The Drama With Zoran Sijan

Besides her account of life on the scene, the singer also spoke about a painful chapter of her private life. Her late husband Zoran Sijan left her in 1996 for a neighbor. Bozinovska and that woman, Gorana, were at the time next door neighbors and friends. Sijan left Bozinovska and their two children, daughter Zorana and son Miroslav, known to everyone as Mirko, for Gorana.

Asked about that period and about her relationship today with the woman she says destroyed her family, Bozinovska said:

“That woman destroyed my family, my whole life. It was hard, but I’m not going back to the past. I decided I wouldn’t waste any more time and nerves on things that don’t matter. I’ve lost so many dear people I loved and miss, so some things aren’t nearly as painful as that. I can only say that she and I aren’t at odds and that everything between us is fine. What happened, happened. You should be glad, not mourn and keep replaying the past in your head. I’ve always been tolerant and forgiving, and I forgave her too. I forgave, but I haven’t forgotten. One thing is certain, my Zoran stood by me until the end.”

So while she has forgiven Gorana, Bozinovska makes clear she has not forgotten what happened, and stresses that there is no conflict between her and her former neighbor today.

Her Son and Family

Bozinovska also brought up the period following Sijan’s death. She says that during that time, amid grief and worry for her family, she asked the son of Zlata Petrovic to look after her son Mirko. She cites that detail as proof of how difficult things were for her then and how much she leaned on people around her to help her family get through it.

Today, she says, she looks forward. She says she wants to enjoy life and has no intention of revisiting the past, whether the story of her husband and her former neighbor or the gigs she once lost for turning down an indecent offer.

Bozinovska’s comments were made in an interview picked up by several outlets. Alongside the story, Mondo noted that the singer had drawn attention a few months earlier with photos from a yacht vacation, while Informer had previously carried comments from her sister Jelica about the relationship between Goca and Zoran Sijan.