Abramovich struggling to pay his £570k-a-week staff bill
But when you’re a Russian oligarch with billions in the bank such petty obstacles are easily overcome.
But that is just what has happened to the embattled owner of Chelsea FC following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Because, of course, one of the downsides of owning a portfolio of homes around the world, a five-strong fleet of superyachts and at least three private jets is the massive cost of maintaining them.
Aven, 67, a director of Russia’s biggest private bank who made his £4.5 billion fortune from oil investments, never learned to drive and is now being forced to contemplate life without a chauffeur. A few miles away in Surrey’s Virginia Water, Aven — who was raised in a communal apartment in Moscow with a kitchen and bathroom shared by eight families — has an even more salubrious property, a neo-Palladian mansion set in 8.5 acres of green lawns. In the grounds, ‘Reclining Figure’, an 8ft-long bronze nude by the late British sculptor Henry Moore, which he bought for £19 million, has pride of place.
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