Roman Abramovich

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman, investor and politician. Abramovich is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC, and is best known outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea F.C., a Premier League football club.

• 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.