Children of oligarchs. What do the children of Russian oligarchs do?
Rich children, sons, majors - they can be called by different names, but the essence will not change. They are provocatively behaving clowns who have achieved nothing in life through their hard work and are having fun at the expense of their parents’ money.
All of these kids were lucky enough to be born into rich families, and for some reason they feel like they have to let everyone know how rich they are.
This trend is not limited to children, as there are many vain, arrogant famous adults. From "musicians" like Kanye West to children of politicians who look like they want to announce their wealth to the world, there's an endless line of rich idiots we'd all like to punch in the face.
Fortunately, there are some exceptions to the rule. Take Gordon Ramsay and his children for example. In a recent article, he stated that while he flies business class with his wife, their children travel by bus because they need to know what it's like to live like a poor man before enjoying the benefits of his achievements. This good story, but it is overshadowed by many people with the wrong mentality who raise their offspring incorrectly, allowing them to do what they want and act like spoiled spoiled children.
With so many annoying rich kids, teens, and adults who let it happen, it's hard to narrow this list down to just 15, but let's take a look at the cream of the crop and pick the kids we'd most like to punch in the face, and not just once, but repeatedly until they are simply gone forever.
15. Param Sharma - the most annoying child of all
And the crown for the most annoying spoiled rich kid we'd all like to piss off goes to Param Sharma. This loser is spending most of his free time, which lasts forever, posting photos of himself with his only friend, money. Anyway, this asshole has over 400,000 followers on Instagram.
Param is better known as 19-year-old Instagrammer Lavish P, and his fame came from his outrageous social media posts. networks, such as throwing $4,000 into the air in an attempt to tease those who donate money, or when he called the Kardashian family "peasants."
In 2014, he was jailed for selling a stolen iPhone on Craigslist. “He was sentenced to 90 days in a California prison, but even this sentence he did not receive in full, because according to his lawyer, Andrew Shalaby, Param was housed in psychiatric department instead of a regular prison."
14. Justin Dior Combs
First of all, his middle name is “Dior”, it sounds provocative, but it’s not his fault. On the other hand, his father Sean Combs, used the aliases Papa Tighten, P.Diddy, Swollen, and Diddy. All these nicknames smack of bad taste. It's hard to come up with more stupid pseudonyms.
One way or another, his son, Dior Diddy, or whatever his name is, enjoys all the advantages of life as the offspring of a talented man. On his sixteenth birthday, his father gave him a $360,000 silver Maybach. His party was attended by residents of the Jersey Shore. Justin also posts tons of selfies on the Internet in which he is dressed up in the most fashionable clothes and looks so provocative that you want to beat him up.
13. Sheikh Hamden bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum
The 29-year-old Prince of Dubai is the son of Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United United Arab Emirates. This spoiled, spoiled child is wasting his life by spending money. Let's be clear, he doesn't make a living at all - he's just spending his dad's cash, which he's extremely good at.
For example, he drives a diamond-studded, mink-trimmed Mercedes that costs approximately $4.8 million, and owns the largest yacht in the world, which costs approximately $300 million.
He mostly travels the world, eats in the most expensive restaurants and spends all his time on constant carefree vacations - all of which he got just for being the son of one of the richest men in the world. Someone please punch him in the face.
12. Haji Abdul Asim
The Prince of Brunei knows firsthand what it means to show off his wealth. He's probably the best in the world at this. Abdul invited many people to his 30th birthday Hollywood celebrities, including Pamela Anderson and Marisa Tomei for a major celebration at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
Numerous parties have always been his specialty. For example, “In 2009, the billionaire playboy threw the 'Party of the Year', spending more than 70,000 euros on flowers alone,” according to Yahoo.
Not only do his parties cost a fortune, but guests can always count on expensive gifts to commemorate the evening, “including an iPod, diamond jewelry and luxurious Crème de la Mer face creams.”
And if you're nice to the Brunei prince and are a hot female celebrity, you could be gifted a $6 million dollar jewel, like the one he gave to his longtime girlfriend Mariah Carey in 1996.
11. Justin Bieber
Where to start a story about this idiot? Okay, he actually made his own money singing songs for dumb teenagers. Other than that, however, there is no reason to like or respect this arrogant, petty jerk. Even if he's not one of the rich kids on Instagram, there's nothing to love about him.
Not caring about fans, being disrespectful to people, trying to look cool, picking fights, having bodyguards protecting him, $750 haircuts, being friends with the Kardashians - the list goes on. And saying “I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me” shows how out of touch he really is. That's reason enough to want to punch Bieber in the face, repeatedly.
10. Kardashians
Yes, all of them. With the possible exception of Kendell, who works hard, wears minimal makeup, and seems to be the closest thing to ordinary people. Keyword"Maybe". After all, she is a Kardashian/Jenner. We all know about Kim, Khloe and Kourtney and they are all insufferable.
As for Rob Kardashian, he has no talent or personality at all. He lives in a mansion paid for by his parents and spends all his time moping and wondering why no one likes him. The reasons are obvious.
And Kylie, the ugly duckling of the family, but with her family fortune, she was able to transform herself into a slutty Barbie doll who spends all her time taking selfies. Just like her loser brother, she has absolutely no talent and is as fake as a plastic Christmas tree. It's worth lining them up and knocking all the pathos out of them, along with their annoying boyfriends and entourage.
9. Petra and Tamara Ecclestone
The 23- and 28-year-old daughters of Formula One guru Bernie Ecclestone have no problem spending their dad's $4.8 billion. They constantly post selfies online, buying everything their spoiled, greedy hands can get their hands on.
Petra bought an $85 million estate in Los Angeles last year, so Bernie may regret allowing his daughters access to his fortune since they did nothing to increase it. As for the house his daughter bought, he said, “The idea was that they would buy a super-quality property, a property that would even serve their children. It didn't work out. They didn't do it. So they had access to the money they spent.” They'll never do it, Bernie. Time for Plan B: Punch them in the face.
8. Miley Cyrus
Miley is a mixture of all kinds of rich kids on this list. She was born in rich family has a musician father, but she also has her own music career, so she does have some talent and made her own money - although it was through her dad's contacts.
What she also has in common with the other kids on this list is the fact that she is a very annoying, attention-seeking idiot. From dressing and acting like a complete slut to twerking with anyone, Miley is the epitome of a mess. And the fact that she took first place in the Top 100 voting according to Maxim magazine is another reason why Maxim and Miley should not be perceived as something worthy. What a disgrace.
7. Brandon Davis
Brandon is the grandson of oil tycoon Marvin Davis. Oil heir - close friend Paris Hilton often makes headlines with accusations of drug possession, fights in clubs and indecent behavior.
He previously dated actress Mischa Barton and then called her a “chick” on Twitter when they broke up, and he was caught making a cameo when he called Lindsay Lohan a “hot crotch.” Sounds like really nice guy. The most natural rich, spoiled spoiled child.
In 2011, he mediated one of the largest real estate agreements in Hollywood history, when he sold the mansion for $85 million to Bernie Ecclestone's previously mentioned daughter, Petra. Birds of a feather.
6. Vorayut Yuvidhya
The grandson of Red Bull founder Cheilo Iuvidhya is a member of the Iuvidhya family, ranked by Forbes Magazine as the fourth wealthiest family in Thailand, with a net worth of approximately $5.4 billion. It must be nice to be born into such a family. However, Voryout is only known for burning through his family's wealth. That's why he ended up on this list.
The problem is not envy of the fortunes of all these rich people, the problem is their behavior. There was a case when this young man killed a policeman and fled, after which his father paid the family of the deceased $97 thousand to stop the trial.
5. Hiltons
Barron Hilton joins his famous sisters Paris and Nicky with his rich, spoiled-kid attitude. The heirs to the Hilton Hotel fortune became famous for their parents' wealth and clubbing.
While Paris has been annoying us for years by spending millions on houses, vacations and shopping, her brother has joined in with his Instagram posts. While Barron has managed to stay out of the public eye, he is one of the rich kids on Instagram and has around 200,000 followers, which doesn't compare to his sister's 4.7 million viewers, but she does have a nice edge and revealing dresses.
Barron made headlines in 2011 when he was fined $4.6 million for seriously injuring a gas station worker while driving under the influence of drugs. A common situation with these rich kids. Good job, Barron.
4. Akash Ambani is the son of the richest man in India
Akash is an Indian businessman and head of strategy at Jio, a 4G service provider. He is the eldest son of Mukesh Abani, who is the richest man in India. Just like many of today's rich sons, he loves to show off his wealth online, especially on Instagram.
Lately, he is better known for his involvement in a car accident that resulted in the death of two people in Mumbai. India is a hotbed of rich kids showing off and acting like complete idiots. It is also known that news outlets have been adjusting the news to prevent the disclosure of unflattering information about Akash, who also happens to have influence over most of the leading news channels in the country. All this is weakly provable, but does not negate the fact that the murderer should be in prison.
3. Dorothy Wang - daughter of Roger Wong
Instagram is very popular among the rich kids of Beverly Hills. And the leader of this gang of spoiled, spoiled children who helped develop this trend of displaying a wealthy lifestyle is Dorothy Wang, daughter of Roger Wong. Mr. Wang is the CEO of Golden Eagle International Group, which owns the most big chains shopping centers China. According to Forbes magazine, his net worth is almost $4 billion.
Following the emergence of numerous rich kids blogs, Wang's popularity on Instagram has increased significantly, gaining more than 50,000 followers on her first day. Now you can watch her flaunting her wealth and acting like a rich kid on a daily basis. Other annoying rich kids like Morgan Stewart and countless reality TV stars followed suit with their own self-absorbed photos.
2. Jaden Smith
Does anyone think Jaden Smith is an actor? Luckily, we haven't seen him in any films lately and we hope it stays that way.
Everything about him is disgusting. His posts, tweets, Instagram photos, style, attention seeking, and everything else he does is just infuriating. Will Smith should do us all a favor and remove this character from our newsfeeds. Send him to a desert island.
Here's an example: “I have a goal to be the craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean I want to take the craziness to Olympic levels. I want to be the craziest person on the planet." What does this even mean? His face clearly begs for a brick.
1. Robert Cavalli - son of Roberto
The youngest son of fashion legend Roberto Cavalli and Eva Duringer, Robert is another petty jerk living off his family's fame and fortune. Robert, currently living in London and studying at Regent's University, where his specialty is waiting for his father to die so he can inherit millions.
All he does is post photos of himself and friends on the Internet, eating caviar and wasting money. He loves to take selfies to make sure everyone knows exactly how rich and original he is. At least he has over 120,000 followers on Instagram to prop up his dead ego. He's a complete idiot.
Already before foreign press The glory of the daughters of Russian oligarchs has come. The Daily Mail did not remain indifferent, which in the material entitled “Who's the daddy?” tried to explore the origins and hobbies of seven girls whose dads manage millions - and even give them a "spoiledness rating" on a scale of five (if the Daily Mail ever tries to rate someone's modesty, apparently they will use a minus scale).
The number “seven” was chosen more or less at random, because we have much more oligarchs with daughters in Russia. But we can start our review with these seven:
Polina is studying publishing. Her father is Valentin Yumashev, a journalist who headed the presidential administration under Boris Yeltsin and now works in London.
Polina graduated from the prestigious private school Milfield and in 2001 married aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, whose fortune is estimated at eight billion pounds. Their marriage became the wedding of the century in Russia. The couple has two children. Rating among "daddy's girls" from the Daily Mail: 3.
Nastin's dad - Vladimir Potanin, publisher of the Russian version Cosmopolitan magazine, President of Interros. In the list of the richest people in the world, he ranks 38th with a fortune of seven billion pounds.
Nastya is a former champion of Russia in aquabike. She showed her best results in such difficult disciplines as freestyle and slalom. MGIMO graduate. After a leg injury, he builds a career as a sports manager. She is also an excellent skier: her father built a ski slope for his daughter inside his Moscow house for £7 million. Vladimir Potanin is directly related to the fact that Olympic Games 2014 will be held in Sochi. Daily Mail spoiling rating: 5.
Vasily Anisimov made a fortune in the aluminum business in the 90s. Made a billion pounds. Business partner of Alisher Usmanov, shareholder of the Arsenal football club.
Anna is interested in real estate. Renting a house for a summer holiday in America cost her dad £260,000. “A little expensive,” the family decided, and got busy purchasing property: a penthouse in Miami (2.5 million pounds), an apartment in New York ($7.5 million) were the beginning. Then the Anisimovs bought a plot of land in New York's Greenwich Village ($23 million), where Anna plans to build residential buildings. Ani's private yacht can often be found off the coast of Sardinia. The move to America became forced - his father’s difficult business makes life dangerous. Anna managed to work as a model at the Elite agency and grace Elle and Jane magazines. Rating: 5.
The pop star is the daughter of Ralif Safin, the founder of Russian oil giant Lukoil, now a £350m politician. The Daily Mail calls the girl “Russian Britney” - in a sense, this is even insulting: Britney’s dad never opened any Lukoils, and Alsou herself was never caught by the paparazzi with dirty hair roots. Alsou treats the interpretation of the reasons for her success with humor: “I know that envious people call me a “singing gas station.” For his wedding with Yan Abramov, a major businessman, dad gave Also a penthouse in Moscow and a huge dacha in the Moscow region. A show-off with taste, the Daily Mail gave her a spoiledness score of 2.
Kira is the world's youngest designer fashionable clothes. Her dad is the president and main shareholder of the giant Food Industry"Wim-Bill-Dann." His fortune is estimated at £350 million. He invested 50 of them in the development of his daughter’s business. For $2 million, Paris Hilton herself agreed to admit to everyone that she wears underwear from Kira. Rating among daddy's girls: 4.
Father - Alexander Zhukov, owner of shares in a British oil company and head of Sintez - the structure controls the oil transshipment complex (up to 20 million tons per year) of the Odessa seaport of the second largest in space former USSR. Dasha, together with her school friend Christina Tang, promotes their common prestigious clothing brand “Kova&T”. She only dates men from the tabloids: before her boyfriend was tennis player Marat Safin, now it’s Roman Abramovich, whose family she had to destroy. The rating treated her mercifully: 3 points.
TV star, host of the reality show "Dom-2", Russian "Paris Hilton".
“I will never fall below a certain level, because all my friends are wealthy people,” says 25-year-old Ksenia, forgetting the eternal “don’t swear off prison or poverty.”
Ksyusha's father is the late Anatoly Sobchak, former mayor of St. Petersburg and mentor to Vladimir Putin. Rating: 5.
Overlooked by the Western press: they do not give rise to gossip - they do not appear at fashionable parties and do not publicly choose suitors:
0 15 February 2016, 14:13An interesting Instagram was found on the Internet - Rich Russian Kids. The author of an anonymous blog posts pictures from the accounts of wealthy young Russians. Children of oligarchs regularly publish expensive cars, watches, gadgets, luxury items on their profiles, show photographs taken on luxury yachts, and their own selfies with influential government officials.
Within six months of its existence, the number of profile subscribers exceeded 130 thousand, reports TJournal. The author adds captions to all photographs, which may belong to their owners - or are the creativity of the blog creator himself.
The anonymous author of the blog noted in an interview with the Bigpicture website that he is “on the side of the heirs,” but tries to please both ordinary users and the “VIP crowd.” However, at first glance, the pictures rather make fun of the spoiledness and arrogance of wealthy children and once again point to social inequality. Instagram RRK looks especially relevant against the backdrop of the ongoing financial crisis in the country.
The author of the profile also noted that previously a whole team worked on replenishing the account, communicating with wealthy people. But over time, the Instagram of “Rich Russian Kids” became so popular that young people themselves began to tag their photos with the tag #RRK (Rich Russian Kids), which made the work of the blog’s creators easier.
An evening with your closest friends.
While you are saving for the down payment on your credit car.
We take the baby in front of the crisis.
Local time - 5 million rubles. Which card should I tip?
How is it in Murmansk now?
I broke my iPhone again yesterday, today I freaked out.
When the employees stop you, they already know how to handle you. What do you know about good birthday gifts?
Spiritual awakening in the countryside.
The outfits for this weekend have been selected.
Locals are shocked by Russian handouts.
We'll raise wine glasses for a ruble.
In a curtained Maybach, the crisis is neither heard nor seen.
Gift to match the color of the landscapes.
Let us recall that we previously wrote about the popular Western magazine, which also publishes photographs of wealthy children from all over the world.
Source TJournal
Instagram photo
A strange trend has been observed recently: several famous children of oligarchs have passed away, some of them as a result of suicide. Such cases are not isolated; often very rich children simply cannot withstand the pressure. It’s not clear what they don’t like, what they’re unhappy with? These people are educated at the world's best universities, the whole world is open to them from childhood, they wear best clothes, live in best apartments and drive the best cars.
They have everything that others are forced to achieve very hard work, which, moreover, is not at all a guarantee of achieving the desired benefits. Children of rich parents have significantly big amount resources and opportunities than millions and even billions of other people.
It is blasphemous for them to throw this away, and early death is completely inadequate: what might be missing in such conditions that others only dream of? However, apparently, something is still missing. Today we will tell you about the children of famous rich people whose fate turned out to be tragic.
Yuri Gushchin-Kuznetsov
The grandfather of 19-year-old Yura, as well as his father, are very rich people, whose fortunes are studied by Forbes journalists. He has everything he needs for a happy life. Or rather, it was. This summer, a guy jumped out of a window and, naturally, died. For many this came as a shock. As it turned out, Gushchin-Kuznetsov was unhappily in love with a girl who didn’t care about all his money. Well, he couldn’t buy her sympathy, no matter how hard he tried.When the news about the suicide of the “golden” child reached the ears of the public and funds mass media, numerous details of Yuri’s various addictions have surfaced. However, the examination showed that he was sober at the time of his death. In addition, shortly before the incident, the guy lost a lot of money in a casino. However, this is where all the information ends: the family reliably guards any information about the deceased, the girl who made him commit suicide could not be found, and very little is known about Yura himself and his personality.
Nikoloz Khubutia
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Son of Mikhail Khubutiy, owner large network selling weapons "Kolchuga", Nikoloz Khubutia committed suicide this summer. Ironically, straight from his father's gun. The guy was 26 years old. His death came as a huge shock to his father. He could not contain his emotions, declaring that he himself now did not want to live, because his son was no more. Nikoloz was a student at MGIMO, a good student, special bad habits didn't have.
The funeral of the deceased was organized simply gorgeous. The relatives of the deceased did not skimp on expensive honors, trying at least in this way to last time express love to your son. Unfortunately, this will not bring him back...
Friends of Nikoloz recall that in last weeks Before his death, the guy was severely depressed. He said that he was very tired and did not see the point in anything. It is quite possible that this was the reason for his death: too many people expected something from the 26-year-old heir to a business empire that he could not or did not want to give.
Anastasia Soltan
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The story of this 22-year-old girl is so tragic that it is simply amazing. 2 years ago Nastya got into an accident with her parents. Her father and mother died, but her daughter miraculously survived. Numerous fractures, bruises, injuries and, of course, terrible depression from the realization that she was left an orphan delayed Nastya’s rehabilitation for many months. During this time, her loved one abandoned her, and due to the financial fraud of her father’s colleagues, she lost most of the inheritance - that is, money.
Agree, these are very hard blows of fate. And all this in a few months! I don’t even want to imagine what the girl was going through. Or rather, she tried to survive - after all, how can you blame her for not being able to do this? On her birthday, in the fall, the girl jumped out of the window, committing suicide. A couple of days before her suicide, she wrote that a short time I lost everything I had and everyone I loved very much.
An incredibly tragic and terrible story evokes nothing but compassion and pity. And, perhaps, it’s blasphemous to say so, but it remains to be seen what is really worse: a quick death or this kind of life, if it can be called life at all...
Diana Lebedeva
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Diana Lebedeva’s grandfather, Plato, who was a major oil magnate and banker, did everything for his granddaughter from childhood. Literally, everything she wanted, since his millions were enough for this. The girl had everything she wanted, and at the age of 19 she was perhaps the main Moscow party girl and informal leader“golden youth”, whose interests were burning own life in the most beautiful way.
Such a wonderful and carefree life of Diana ended tragically in Switzerland: her luxurious luxury car, as a result of the fact that Lebedeva lost control, flew off to the side of the road and fell into a gorge. Diana's friends and relatives were in deep shock. They still remember the girl as a very kind and sincere person, despite all her money.
Victoria Teslyuk
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The girl was the daughter of a top manager at the Lukoil oil corporation. Her life also ended in tragedy: she was killed. This murder became an unusually resonant case and attracted public attention from all over Russia and beyond.
On March 26, 2011, in the evening, the girl, who was then 16 years old, left the apartment and went to meet her tutor. She never returned home. Only a month later, her body was found in one of the villages near Moscow. Apparently, before her death she was tortured: beaten and strangled.
No connections and money of the father, who almost went crazy with grief, helped to find the killers. The case remains unsolved. However, from Vicki’s personal entries in her diary, it became known that she dabbled in drugs and alcohol, almost did not go to school and had sexual relations with many men who were much older than her.
Genghis Khan Gutseriev
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Mikhail Gutseriev - famous and very successful Russian businessman associated with oil production. Everything seemed to be fine in his life. Except for one thing: his son, 22-year-old Genghis Khan, died more than 10 years ago. One morning he simply did not wake up. The maid could not wake him up and, frightened, called the police. They notified the father: the guy had died. There is a version that a couple of hours before his death, the young man was in a car accident.
Without attaching much importance to the injuries received as a result of the traffic accident, the guy, apparently in a state of shock, went to bed. Unfortunately, this dream was his last. However, Gutseriev’s father does not believe this: according to the parent, his son suffered from a rare heart disease.
It's quite possible that he just got heart attack in the middle of the night and died in his sleep from cardiac arrest. For some time there were rumors that Genghis Khan’s death was the result of a successful special operation by his father’s competitors, but Mikhail himself resolutely refutes this version.
Philip Tarasov
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The fate of this guy, of course, is not nearly as tragic as all the people listed above. However, you don’t really envy her either. The son of millionaire Artyom Tarasov today lives in poverty and is selling his own father’s house to open his own business. The thing is that when dad died, his inheritance went to his relatives and ex-spouses.
Alas, there was almost nothing left for my son. As a result, the guy lives very poorly, but, nevertheless, dreams of rising up, opening his own business and becoming rich, like his father.
“Our Version” continues to study the caste of the Russian “golden youth”. In issue No. 12 of March 26, 2018, we already wrote about the children of famous politicians, thanks to whom the phenomenon of “hereditary democracy” appeared. Now it’s time to look at the offspring of domestic oligarchs - billionaires occupying the top lines of the Russian part of the Forbes list.
Leo Tolstoy wrote: “All happy families are alike.” If we assume that happiness is impossible without great material wealth, then in Russia today no more than a hundred families have the best opportunities for this. According to Forbes estimates for 2018, there are 102 dollar billionaires in our country. The total wealth of this “golden hundred” is over $400 billion. A total of 274 children are being raised in these families. So was the classic right? Of course, we cannot tell you about each of these offspring. Therefore, let’s take a look only at the very top ranking of the “majors” and see how far the apples have flown from their luxurious apple trees in this case.
Alekperov does not trust his son with the business
The richest heir today is 28-year-old Yusuf Alekperov - The only son President of the LUKOIL oil corporation. As expected, his father had been preparing his successor since childhood, so Yusuf received a diploma with honors from Kerosinka - the University of Oil and Gas named after. Gubkin with a degree in petroleum engineer. Then Alekperov Jr. received another honors diploma – in the specialty “Economics and Management”. The heir also worked for over two years at LUKOIL fields in Western Siberia. In general, it seems necessary school passed, and therefore it is quite logical that Vagit Alekperov bequeathed his stake to his son
LUKOIL worth $17 billion. That's just...
It seems that the highly experienced Vagit Yusufovich, for some reason, did not fully believe that his son would preserve and increase his life’s work. Therefore, he introduced a strict restriction into the will: the heir will own a block of shares, but without the right to split it. For this purpose, the shares will be transferred to a special charitable foundation, which is why Yusuf will not be able to dispose of them directly. The oligarch himself spoke about this: “It is written in my will that the block of shares cannot be divided, because I, of course, worry about the future of LUKOIL. The stability of the company will be ensured not only during my lifetime, but also after. “I don’t allow the idea of dispersing the stake, which would lead to some unpredictable actions.”
Moreover, in an interview last year, Alekperov dejectedly admitted that he was looking for another successor, since his son was not suitable for this role, they say, running a company is too much hard work for him. According to him, his successor will not be chosen from among his close relatives. However, Yusuf has no need to grieve, because his father’s billions will still go to him, and perhaps even increase.
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Mikhelson is building a huge museum for his daughter
Will not continue his father's work, largest shareholder companies Novatek and Sibur, his 26-year-old daughter Victoria Mikhelson (second place in the ranking of heirs). At least so far, her area of interest is too far from the oil and gas business. When Victoria decided to study art history at New York University after school, her dad created a fund specifically for her to support young Russian artists, “Victoria - The Art of Being Modern” (V-A-C Foundation), so that her daughter would not have to look for work after university. Currently, V-A-C is developing an art space in the building of GES-2 on Bolotnaya Embankment in Moscow. Two years later, there, on an area of almost 40 thousand. square meters, it is planned to open a museum contemporary art. The cost of reconstruction is estimated at 150 million euros. For Mikhelson, this is not money.
Who will take the reins of billions? Three years ago, the oligarch had a son, that is, there is a potential heir, but we still have to wait a long time until he reaches a responsible age.
The offspring of Andrei Melnichenko, who occupy the rankings, are also young heirs of Forbes third place. Their future is still in doubt, in contrast to the cloudless present. Five-year-old Tara Melnichenko and her one-year-old brother Andrian (father is the owner of the Eurochem and SUEK companies, mother is former model and the lead singer of the Serbian group Models) are currently traveling between their parents' homes in Monaco, France, the USA, Great Britain, Switzerland and Russia on the world's largest sailing yacht.
As you can see, the upbringing and training of oligarchic “majors” takes place, as a rule, far from their native land. Thus, the last of the top 5 heirs, 31-year-old Jahangir Makhmudov, the son of the main shareholder of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) Iskander Makhmudov, graduated first from the London School of Economics and then from the Hult Business School. He is now a partner in the Israeli venture fund Singulariteam, which invests in the areas artificial intelligence and robotics. True, at the same time Jahangir is one of those rare examples when offspring work in their father's business. He holds the position of Deputy General Director of the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, which is part of the UMMC empire.
Timchenko and Rashnikov’s youngest daughters continue their business
The bearers of three other surnames from the Russian ranking of heirs have a similar biography. Let's start with the children of the owner of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (NLMK) Vladimir Lisin (seventh place in the ranking). In particular, 37-year-old Dmitry Lisin, having graduated from the London School of Economics, has been working in his father’s companies since the mid-2000s, serving on the boards of directors of enterprises he owns - First Freight Company, North-Western Shipping Company, Volga Shipping Company, Rumedia media holding; is involved in NLMK's strategy. According to Dmitry, “father will be happy to put everything on us as soon as we feel ready.”
Of the two daughters of the owner of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), Viktor Rashnikov (ninth place in the ranking), the eldest, Tatyana, initially continued her father’s work, supplying MMK abroad. But then she left own business– construction company “Rekonstruktsiya”. The parental business is now continued by the youngest daughter, 41-year-old Olga, who holds the position of financial director of the Moscow representative office of Magnitogorsk. As a reward for this, her father gave her a third of the shares of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and both of his French villas - Villa les Figuiers and Villa Nellcote.
One more example youngest daughter, continuing the business of her father, one of the most influential oligarchs today, is 33-year-old Ksenia Timchenko (eighth place in the ranking). After graduating from the University of Edinburgh (UK), she returned to Russia and is now on the board of directors of Transoil. Her father, owner of the investment holding Volga Group Gennady Timchenko, has already transferred his 12.5% stake in Sogaz to her. After Oxford University, the eldest daughter Natalya decided to take up cinematography, and the youngest son, 23-year-old Ivan, is still studying international relationships at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). As you can see, apparently, none of them began to study in their homeland.
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An illustrative example is the offspring of the owner of the Renova corporation, Viktor Vekselberg (sixth place in the ranking) - 39-year-old Irina and 30-year-old Alexander. Both graduated from Yale University. Irina worked in New York financial analyst Citigroup, and now, having moved to Moscow, together with her husband, she runs a company specializing in Russian-Chinese transactions. Alexander Vekselberg also lives in the USA and owns Ferrari car dealerships in Denver and Philadelphia. The ambitious boy once became famous throughout the world when he publicly became indignant - they say that his father spent 100 million dollars to buy Faberge eggs for Russia, but did not give him a measly 3 thousand dollars to buy a racing car! Well, now any car is at his service. It is curious that Vekselberg Sr. was included in the US sanctions list, but his son lives quietly on the land of a “potential enemy.”
Many children of oligarchs prefer to settle abroad. Thus, the 33-year-old son of Lukoil co-owner Anton Fedun graduated from a university in Britain and now lives in London, managing his own hotel there, The Ampersand Hotel in Kensington, the most prestigious area. The children of the head of Alfa Bank, Peter Aven, graduated from Yale University and also remained to work in New York. A eldest daughter ex-owner of Uralkali, Harvard University graduate Ekaterina Rybolovleva initially received from her father an expensive penthouse in New York worth $88 million as a gift. And then Rybolovlev Sr. gave his beloved daughter the entire Greek island of Skorpios, where her wedding to a Uruguayan financier took place. The same island where its former owner Aristotle Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy. The youngest heiress, 17-year-old Anna Rybolovleva, lives with her mother in Geneva.
Abramovich Jr. is following in his father's footsteps
It would be possible to list them for a long time. Alexander Frolov, the son of the co-owner of Evraz, lives in London and has his own venture fund, Target Global, there. 30-year-old Said Gutseriev, the son of the owner of the BIN group, lived for 17 years in Britain, where he studied at Oxford and the University of Plymouth. Arkady Abramovich, following in the footsteps of his father, who owns football club Chelsea tried to acquire the Danish club Copenhagen, but, however, failed.
Well, at least someone in Russia, right? However, exceptions only confirm the rule. For example, three children of Severstal owner Alexei Mordashov from his new wife– Masha, Nastya and Daniil are studying at a school near Moscow. However, do not rush to be touched by their closeness to the people. We are talking about an elite elite created with the money of Mordashov himself. private school Wunderpark in New Riga.
There are only two truly exceptions in the top 20. One of them - only daughter general director UMMC Andrei Kozitsyn 19-year-old Maria, who graduated with a gold medal from the Lomonosov school "Intek" and entered Faculty of Economics High school Economics (HSE). The second case is the daughter of the founder of the Magnit network, 23-year-old Polina Galitskaya, who graduated from Krasnodar Gymnasium No. 54 and Kuban State University in the economics program.
Potanin and Friedman want to disinherit their children
Against this background, it is impossible not to mention two truly unique cases. The owner of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, said that he intends not to bequeath the bulk of his fortune to his heirs, but to donate it to charity. According to him, with this decision he wants to protect his own children “from the burden of excessive wealth,” because otherwise they will not have “the motivation to achieve something in life.” Potanin has five children in total. The two eldest - 34-year-old Anastasia and 29-year-old Ivan - were multiple champions of Russia in aquabike. Now Anastasia helps her father in management ski resort Rosa Khutor organized the Artis project, which popularizes young Russian artists. Ivan works as an analyst at financial company LR Global. In addition, there is also Andrei Potanin, who graduated from Friends Academy in New York, and Varya and his younger brother are still preschoolers.
The practice of assigning most of the fortune not to heirs, but to charity, has long existed among Western billionaires. Almost 200 holders of multi-billion dollar assets within a few recent years joined this movement. Among those worldwide famous businessmen who did this are Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg. For example, Zuckerberg said he plans to donate 99% of his Facebook shares “to advance human potential and promote equality.”
In Russia, besides Potanin, only the founder of Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman, has done this so far. He said: “It seems to me that giving the child or young man a serious amount of money is in many ways a risk of ruining his life.” And he expressed hope that his children would achieve their own career success. His 25-year-old daughter Laura graduated from Yale University, but then joined the Israeli National Ballet. Katya Fridman, 22, also graduated from Yale and works at the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. Their younger brother, 18-year-old Alexander, is just finishing his studies at a British school.
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Personal life of the richest heir in Russia
Yusuf Alekperov once took a photo of himself and signed it “The Don.” In the photo he looks like Vito Corleone from the legendary film - a black and white tuxedo and a bright red scarf in his buttonhole.
While working in his father's company, Yusuf does not forget about pleasures social life. He likes to travel and relax with friends on a yacht, play tennis and football. Yusuf plays in amateur football team in a red T-shirt No. 1. He also loves cats - expensive, purebred ones.
In addition, the heir has a whole fleet of vehicles, and the cars owned by Alekperov Jr. are produced in limited quantities, have exclusive characteristics and letter numbers “LU-K” and “UK”, reminiscent of the LUKOIL company. Among expensive toys Yusuf’s is a black Mercedes-Benz G-Class Brabus jeep. The cost of this model is basic configuration– about 14 million rubles.
Another luxury car in his collection is the Porsche 911 Turbo S, a unique sports car with a 1000 hp engine. It is capable of reaching speeds of 100 km/h in just 3.1 seconds! The cost of the car is 13–15 million rubles. In addition, Alekperov Jr.’s fleet includes a Mercedes S63, Mercedes-AMG GT S, Mercedes CLS, Porsche Panamera, and a tuned Mercedes ML63 AMG DECEPTIKON model. Yusuf recently sold another car – a rich green BMW X6 – for $160,000.
In 2016, Alekperov Jr. married a girl named Alisa. They spent their honeymoon traveling around Spain by car.