Chelsea’s head honcho now owns slightly more of London

Although his attendance at Chelsea games has been less than exemplary of late, any rumours that Roman Abramovich is bored with his West London plaything may be quashed by his latest property investment.

The Russian oligarch originally bought a flat for in the pricey SW1 Lowndes Square building for just over £1m in the late nineties. He and (ex-) wife Irina lived there for several years, but it seems model girlfriend Daria Zhukova requires a little more space for her expansive array of tiny bikinis. Hence, Rom has slowly bought up the rest of the building and can now realise his dream of turning the whole thing into a gigantic palatial residence…

As you can see, the new house will have a cinema room, an underground pool, eight en suite bedrooms and a thoroughly Victorian ‘drawing room’. Notice how the children must climb four flights to reach their study, whereas Shevchenko will only have one set of stairs leading to his servants quarters.

Currently, the most expensive UK private property is valued at £86m. Roman will be spending a reported £150m on his 30,000 sq foot mega-gaff, and on account of the fact that £150m is a larger number than £86m, this record is probably going to be broken.

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