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Roman Abramovich (born 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian businessman. He is one of the richest men in the world. According to 2006 Forbes Magazine, he has a net worth of $18.2 billion[1] . He owns Chelsea F.C., an English Premiership football club. He has given Chelsea much money to pay players. He is governor of a region of Russia.
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A meeting with Roman Abramovich is like the scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy draws back the curtain to find the great and terrible wizard is no more than an old man hunched over a microphone. Abramovich, colossus of Russia's tycoons, and now of British football, almost never gives interviews, so when he invites you to fly thousands of miles to see him in his far eastern state of Chukotka you accept. Chukotka is literally as far from Chelsea FC as it is possible to be - 12 time zones. Go any farther east and you start coming back.
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Roman Abramovich has been married twice and has 5 children. In March 2007 he got divorced with his second wife after paying her record 11.6 million dollars of compensation. The tycoon doesn’t like advertising his fortune and avoids journalists. He refuses to shave, adores his worn-out jeans and sweater and puts on his tuxedo only on big occasions.
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Roman Abramovich has seven houses in Germany, France and Russia. In addition, Abramovich reportedly negotiates a deal to acquire several houses in an elite ski resort. The deal is evaluated in 220 million euros.
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When Mikhail Gorbachev allowed small business development in post-communist Russia in the late 1980s, Roman Abramovich began selling plastic ducks from his small apartment in Moscow. After a few years, Abramovich began investing in other businesses, expanding his wealth. Between 1992 and 1995, Abramovich created companies that acted as resale intermediaries and he eventually focused his attention on the purchase and sale of oil. In 1995 he partnered with Boris Berezovsky to purchase a controlling share of the oil company Sibneft for a sum of $100 million. At the time the company was estimated to be worth $150 million, but after stock value jumped shortly after the acquisition, many Soviets began to question the estimated worth prior to sale. In 2000, Berezovsky left Russia over a fraud scandal and sold his shares to Abramovich.
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Roman Abramovich, 37, one of the youngest and most influential of Russia's oligarchs, remained largely unknown until recently. Few people even knew what Abramovich, once called the "stealth oligarch," looked like -- one newspaper offered a reward to the first person to photograph him. Born in 1966 on the Volga, Abramovich was orphaned at the age of 4 and spent most of his adolescence with his grandparents in a bleak western Siberia town 700 miles north of Moscow. After a brief stint in the Soviet army, he made plastic toys and started up an automobile parts cooperative. He attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow, then traded commodities for Runicom, a Swiss trading company. Abramovich attributes much of his success to the patronage of oil magnate Boris Berezovsky, who introduced him to Yeltsin's inner circle.
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