Roman Abramovich’s 10 most
lavish extravagances
1. The world’s mosT
exTravaganT car
The Ferrari FXX is more exclusive than
even an Enzo or Maybach 66 (both of which
Abramovich also has). In fact, this car is so
elite only 30 exist. Whenever owners wish to
drive them they have to ask permission from
Ferrari, go to an ‘approved’ track then brief
Ferrari on its performance. You may even be
able to race Schumacher in his. Cost: £1.3m
2. a small wood
Yes, Abramovich owns a cheeky 440-acre
wood in West Sussex, bought from King
Hussein of Jordan for £18m. Why? To shoot
clay pigeons in peace and build a private
go-kart track with a 10-lane bowling alley
miles away from the paparazzi. Cost: £18m
Arnie didn’t
adjust well to I’m
A Celebrity… Get
Me Out Of Here!
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3. a massive foresT
Abramovich owns much of the wooded
Chukchi Peninsula in Russia, which is roughly
15 times the size of Britain. As governor of
‘Chukotka’, he dips into the boatload of tin,
lead, zinc, coal and gold buried under its
Eskimo shantytowns. But he has also spent
£200m of loose change building roads,
railways and electricity pylons for the
happy locals. Cost: £200m
4. crash pads
Though Abramovich officially lives in
‘Chukotka’ and unofficially is thought to
spend much of his week in Moscow, he also
owns a £30m pad in Lowndes Square, west
London, specially for Chelsea home games.
Then there’s the little matter of his £10m
tens Facts The Arnie quotes every man repeats
when drunk (in an Austrian accent)
1. “Knock knock” (After banging
a door down in Predator).
2. “Let off some steam, Bennett!”
(After pushing a pipe through his
nemesis in Commando).
3. “Get to the chopper!”
(While injured in Predator).
4. “Want to be a farmer? Here’s a
couple of acres!” (While kicking a
cop in the groin in Last Action Hero).
£1.3m and the wiper
still gets stuck
holiday home in St Tropez
plus another getaway in Malta.
Cost: £40m+
5. ‘The BandiT’ and friends
For his London-to-Moscow commuting
needs, Abramovich has a Boeing 737 jet
and a more modest Gulfstream IVSP.
However, his favourite toy is the gutted
Boeing 767 known as ‘The Bandit’, which has
been stripped of everything and remodelled
as a five-star hotel.
Cost: approximately £190m
6. eurocopTers
How does a billionaire oil magnate get from
the Heathrow steps of his 767 to his yacht in
the Solent? Via a Eurocopter EC-145, of
course. These dual-piloted whirly birds can
comfortably seat up to eight passengers.
Cost: £3m each (he’s thought to own five)
7. an armada
With a yacht portfolio featuring
Eclipse, Ecstasea, Pelorus and
Sussurro, Abramovich’s private
naval fleet is the world’s secondmost
valuable (behind Microsoft’s
Paul Allen’s). Over 100 staff are
employed to man these ships,
two of which fill the Top 5
most expensive boats
in Britain (in positions
one and two).
Cost: £481m (plus
running costs)
8. chelsea
Supporting the King’s
Road football club
5. “Come with me if you want
to live” (To Sarah Connor in
Terminator 2).
6. “To crush your enemies, see
them driven before you, and to hear
the lamentation of their women!”
(Explaining the best things in life –
from Conan The Barbarian).
7. “I need a vacation” (At the end
of his life in Terminator 2).
Hiddink was
a fan of regular
moisturising
8. “Look after my friend, he’s
dead tired” (To the stewardess
after killing a man on a plane
in Commando).
9. “Consider this a divorce”
(After shooting his wife in
Total Recall).
10. “If I’m not me, then who
da hell am I?” (Mild confusion
in Total Recall).
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has now cost Abramovich over £500m, plus
the £80m debt he took on when buying them
from Ken Bates. His unwillingness to stump
up £25m for Sevilla’s Daniel Alves could be
an indication that he’s growing tired of this
constant emptying of his bank account.
Cost: £580m
9. guus hiddink
Bored of his club side winning and his
national team losing, Abramovich has built
a Russian Academy of Football, with top-rate
pitches and training facilities across the
country. Crucially he also lured Dutchman
Guus Hiddink to manage the national
side. How Abramovich persuaded
Hiddink into the role is unknown,
but it probably hinged on three
words: Lots. Of. Cash.
Cost: Unknown
“Congratulations Roman,
you passed your
reverse-park test”
10. max penson arT
Abramovich is the world’s
biggest collector of esteemed
Soviet photographer Max
Penson. Much of Penson’s
work in Abramovich’s
collection was displayed in
London’s Somerset House
last year. Cost: £12m
Stone in Total Recall,
when leotards were
less supportive
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