Roman Abramovich has seven children; Anna, Arkadiy, Sofia, Arina, Ilya, Aaron Alexander, and Leah Lou. Irina Malandina is the mother of his first five, while Dasha Zhukova is the mother of the last two.
Abramovich has been married and divorced three times. He was first married to Olga Yurevna Lysova from 1987 to 1990, then Irina Malandina from 1991 to 2007, and lastly Daria ‘Dasha’ Zhukova from 2008 to 2017. His first marriage didn’t produce any children.
Abramovich’s Marriage With Olga Yurevna Lysova Lasted For 3 Years
Olga Lurvena Lysova was Roman Abramovich’s first wife and the daughter of a top-ranking Russian diplomat. She first crossed paths with Abramovich in a crowded restaurant in Ukhta in the summer of 1987.
It was love at first sight when he spotted her, but was afraid she would turn him down, so, he sent a friend asking her for a dance. She obliged after noticing that he was a handsome young man who seemed gentle and well-kept. Sensing where it eventually lead to, Olga told him she has a daughter, and he said it wasn’t a problem, since he loves kids.
Acting against the approval of his family and friends, he immediately told Olga to come and live with him, but she refused. So, he then asked for her hand in marriage before her mother, and Olga accepted.
The match didn’t quite go well with Abramovich’s family because Olga has a daughter Nastya from a previous relationship with a touring actor. But, he shut them up and went ahead to marry Olga in Moscow in December 1987. Her parents bought her a 2,000 rouble wedding gift, which was later used by Abramovich to invest in a business.
Abramovic subsequently doubled the investment and the business begins to witness an unimaginable boom. However, as the business grows, their marriage began to suffer, with him going to work early and coming back late in the night.
Olga began to feel that something was wrong as he was gradually becoming distant from her. She confronted him about it, but he said nothing is wrong.
In all this, she didn’t know that the marriage was about to end. He first brought a proposal that they should divorce so they could both emigrate to Canada since the country’s immigration law makes it easier for unmarried people to move there. They agreed that he should go there, get citizenship and then come back and get them.
Olga innocently signed the divorce papers in April 1989, but that future they talked about never came to pass. After spending a short time with her family in northern Russia, she returns home to her husband in August 1989 and got the shocker that the relationship would discontinue. So their divorce was finalized in 1990.
After the divorce, she moved on with her life and married a musician named Stefan Stefanovich. Apart from being his wife, she is also his manager.
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Meet Roman Abramovich’s First Five Children and Their Mother
Irina Malandina was born to her parents, Vyacheslav and Alla in 1967 in Russia. She lost her father who was working as a waiter when she was a toddler.
She had her university education at Moscow University and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts. After her graduation, she landed a job with Aeroflot as an air stewardess.
She first came into contact with Roman Abramovich while he was on an Aeroflot flight to Germany. A few months later, the pair got engaged and went ahead to tie the knots in 1991, a year after Abramovich ended his three years of marriage with Olga Yurevna Lysova.
Sixteen years into their marriage, the couple decided to divorce in 2007 after having five children. Irina and Abramovich’s divorce became one of the most expensive settlements in the world of sports after earning a reported $300 million.
Anna Abramovich
She is the oldest child and first daughter of Abramovich with his ex-wife Irina Malandina, born in 1992. Anna attended Columbia University and graduated with a degree in Philosophy.
In 2010, she made headlines after getting engaged to her then-boyfriend Nikolai Lazarev when she was 18. Reportedly, the engagement didn’t go down well with her father, so the pair went their separate ways. Subsequently, she was spotted hanging out with TV personality Calum Best.
According to reports, her 16th birthday was celebrated in grand style at a six figures cost. She is currently living in New York.
Arkadiy Abramovich
Arkadiy was born on 14 September 1993 as the second child and first son of Abramovich. By being the first son, he is automatically the heir apparent to his father’s multi-billion-dollar fortunes, Arkadiy is building his own empire away from his father’s shadows.
The 31 year-old is said to be the founder of ARA Capital whose assets cuts across e-commerce, oil, and gas. From 2014 to 2022, he has invested in various businesses from buying shares to acquiring. Some of them include; the Royal Atlantic Energy (Cyprus) Limited, license for gas exploration, extraction, and production in Saratov Oblast, and Greenhouse.
Besides these ventures, Arkadiy is also interested in owning a football club just like his father. He first tried to own stakes in CSK Moscow and Danish club FC Copenhagen, but the biddings didn’t go through.
Sofia Abramovich
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Sofia is the third child and second daughter of Abramovich and Irina, born in 1995. She is a graduate of management and marketing from Royal Holloway University in London.
While she earned a reputation as a “wild child” of the Abramovich family due to her obsession with living the life of the party and not minding flaunting her wealth online. She has three horses named; Dora, Billy Fraulein, and Zanzibar, and also represented Russia in showjumping competitions.
Arina Abramovich
The fourth child and third daughter of Irina and Abramovich was born in 2001. She was said to have competed in showjumping competitions with her horse Pringle.
According to reports, she came first at the International Horse Show at Olympia in 2013 with a Roan Gelding her father bought for her at 50, 000 pounds. It was also said that Arina wants to relocate to Australia to enable her to be admitted into a zoology faculty.
Based on her Instagram page, she was living in Athens, Greece as of 2015.
Ilya Abramovich
Ilya is the fifth child and second son of his parent. He was born in 2003, four years before his parents divorced.
Reports say his education was hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic. So, it is not clear where he is headed as regard his university education.
Relationship-wise, he seems to be in love with a girl named Irina Kurila. Going through his Instagram page, there are loved-up pictures of him and the girl.
The Russian Billionaire’s Third Ex-Wife Daria Dasha Zhukova Shares Two Children with Him After Almost 10 Years of Marriage
Zhukova was born on 8th June 1981 in Moscow, Russia to Alexander Zhukov and Yelena Zhukova. She was 3 years old when her parents split, prompting her to move with her mother to the United States in 1991.
She had education first at Pacific Hill Schools in California and graduated in 1999. After that, she enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with honors in Slavic studies literature. Years later, she attended the London College of Naturopathic Medicine, however, she didn’t finish the program.
Zhukova is enjoying a bubbling career as an art collector, magazine editor, and entrepreneur. She co-founded a fashion outfit called “Kova & T”, and founded a non-profit organization “Garage Center for Contemporary Culture” which was said to be partly funded by her ex-husband, Roman Abramovich.
She became the editor-in-chief of Pop and Garage magazines. Also, she became politically inclined after donating to the presidential campaign of former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
The art collector got married to Roman Abramovich in 2008. Nine years later, the wedding ended in divorce in 2017 after the pair welcomed two children; Aaron Alexander and Leah Lou.
Two years after the divorce, she married Starvros Niarchos II, in Paris, France. She welcomed her first child with him in March 2021.
Aaron Alexander
Aaron Alexander Abramovich is the first child of Zhukova and Abramovich. He was born in 2010 in Manhattan, the United States.
Leah Lou
Leah Lou Abramovich was born in 2014 in Manhattan, the United States as the second child of Abramovich and Zhukova. She is the overall last child of the Russian billionaire’s seven children.
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