Owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich and his third wife Daria Zhukova have announced their separation after 10 years together.
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The couple, who have two children together, revealed the news in a joint statement.
“After 10 years together, the two of us have made the difficult decision to separate,” they said in the statement, adding that the pair “remain close friends, parents, and partners in the projects we developed together. We are committed to jointly raising our two children.”
According to Forbes magazine with an estimated fortune of almost £7bn ($9.1bn), Abramovich is the world’s 139th richest person,
His first marriage with Olga Lysova packed up within four years. That of his second wife Irina Malandina lasted 16 years and produced five children.
Abramovich was formerly a governor of Russia’s deprived far-northern region of Chukotka from 2000, the year Vladimir Putin became president, before quitting of his own accord in 2008.
