Chelsea’s Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich is buying up a city block in New York so that he can build a huge mansion to help put his mark on “The Big Apple.”
According to the New York Post newspaper:
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich loves the Big Apple so much that he’s buying up most of a city block to build one of New York’s largest mansions.
The oligarch, who Forbes estimates is worth $9.3 billion, plans on building a dream mansion to live in with his glamorous girlfriend, Dasha Zhukova, the mother of two of his seven children.
[Abramovich] secretly purchased 11 E. 75th St. — a narrow, 21-foot-wide, 9,495-square-foot town house — for $29.7 million from developer Larry Gluck in October.
In December, Abramovich secretly bought another town house, two doors down, at 15 E. 75th St. that was an even tinier, 17-foot-wide house, for $18.3 million. That home is 7,286 square feet.
