At No1, Ukrainian mogul you have never heard of
LEN Blavatnik, a businessman and music mogul born in Ukraine, tops this year’s Rich List with an estimated personal wealth of £13.17billion.
The 57-year-old built much of his fortune, which is up £3.17billion on 2014, from Russian oil in an unlikely alliance with BP. But he also bought Warner Music in 2011 and later added Parlophone, the Beatles’ label.
The son of two Jewish academics, he emigrated to New York in 1978 and became a US citizen in 1984.
Blavatnik has two daughters and two sons with his American wife, Emily Appelson. He owns a £41million mansion in London’s Kensington and donated £75million to Oxford University for a school of government.