Maja Marinkovic: Asmin Is Opening Restaurant in Austria

Maja Marinkovic has revealed that her partner Asmin Durdzic is preparing to open a restaurant in Austria. The couple sat out this season’s reality show specifically because of that venture, and according to Maja, the money from reality TV will soon not be something they need at all.

She shared the news as a guest on the show Narod pita, where she sat alongside Stanija Dobrojevic. Maja said Asmin is negotiating a business space and that the concept has already been worked out in detail: a restaurant by day, and a party with live music on weekends.

Yes, Asmin is making preparations for that. It will be for family people, and there will be live music on weekends, while during the day it will be a normal restaurant where people come and eat something. He’s currently negotiating that, so we’ll be a bit in Belgrade and a bit in Austria.

That, she said, is also why the couple will soon be living between two addresses, part of the time in Belgrade, part in Austria, until the business gets on its feet. Maja did not disclose the exact location of the future restaurant, the size of the investment, or an opening date.

What gives the story extra weight is the company in which it was said. Stanija Dobrojevic was Asmin’s partner before he got together with Marinkovic, and it was reportedly during that earlier relationship that he first stepped into the restaurant business in Austria. Now, sitting next to her, he has announced he’s getting back into that business, this time with Maja.

Asmin already has restaurant experience in Austria

Running a restaurant business in Austria is nothing new for Durdzic. Before his relationship with Stanija Dobrojevic, he ran a nightclub there that hosted a good number of stars from the Serbian entertainment scene. It was later reported that Asmin ended up on a blacklist there, though he has never confirmed that claim.

His name has also been tied in recent months to accusations made public by Sita Ahmic. She claims Durdzic’s companies have been blocked over debts since 2022, and as proof she posted a screenshot from the official register of business debtors, which allegedly shows one of his companies owing another 43,303 euros. Ahmic went further, claiming Asmin’s photo also appears on a website that warns citizens about scammers, under the label “fraudster.” She also shared a message from a woman who, according to Ahmic, contacted her on Instagram and said she had hired Asmin and his brother for home renovation work, only to be defrauded out of 80,000 euros, a case that was also reported by an Austrian television station.

Durdzic has repeatedly denied these accusations, defending his business dealings publicly, and his responses to Ahmic’s claims were also reported by Blic. None of these claims has been confirmed in court so far, and they remain, for now, one side’s accusations. Maja did not address them on the show, keeping her comments strictly to the announcement of the new business.

What is known, and what isn’t

For now, what’s clear is that the business is in early negotiations, that it’s conceived as a family venue with weekend live music, and that the couple is reshaping their schedule around it. It isn’t known in which city or province of Austria the restaurant would open, or when it would welcome its first guests. Maja and Asmin have not confirmed or denied the earlier debt allegations, beyond what Durdzic has already said in his own defense.

Judging by the attention the Austria announcement alone has drawn, the couple remains firmly in the spotlight of Serbian entertainment news, even without a reality show to keep them there.