Name
Roman Abramovich
Roman Abramovich
Moscow, Russia
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Moscow State Law Academy
Russia
steel, investments, Self Made
$13,100,000,000
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#107 Billionaires 2019
Roman Abramovich owns stakes in steel giant Evraz, Norilsk Nickel and the U.K.'s Chelsea soccer team.He owns the world's second-largest yacht, 533-foot Eclipse, bought for nearly $400 million in 2010.He sold a 73% stake in Sibneft to state-owned gas titan Gazprom for $13 billion in 2005.Abramovich spent $2.5 billion in the Chukotka region where he worked as governor and chairman of the local Duma from 2001 to 2013.Abramovich transferred more than $90 million worth of New York property to third wife Dasha Zhukov, from whom he is separated.His British investor visa expired in April 2018. When he couldn't get a new one, he got Israeli citizenship instead.
Abramovich was orphaned as a child and dropped out of college.Once Russia's richest man, Abramovich's net worth peaked at $23.5 billion in 2008.
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