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    Meet the 22-Year-Old Who Owns a $88 Million Crash Pad in NY

    Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of a Russian billionaire, made headlines with her new home in the Big Apple.

    By Claudine Zap | Yahoo! Finance – Thu, Feb 16, 2012 6:57 PM EST
    Fantasy Finance

    You may have heard that a Russian billionaire, Dmitry Rybolovleva, who made his fortune in fertilizer, bought his daughter a New York City apartment for $88 million. So who is this lucky duck? From what we can find out, the mysterious Ekaterina Rybolovleva is 22 years old, and doesn’t even live in the Big Apple.

    [See also: America's Most Affluent Neighborhoods]

    The Russian heiress does, however, live in the U.S. where she studies at an “undisclosed U.S. university” --  the New York Post says Harvard -- but nothing’s confirmed.

    The blonde beauty, now the proud owner of New York’s priciest crash pad, has stayed out of the spotlight. A serious equestrian (who could probably stash a horse or two in the 6,437 square foot penthouse with 10 rooms and a wrap-around terrace) she competes at  trials across Europe. Although the horsewoman was born in Russia, she has spent the last 15 years mainly in Switzerland and Monaco.

    [See also: Where the One Percent Live]

    And, in the rare instance she does hole up in her tony 15 Central Park West address, she can always borrow a cup of sugar from one of her neighbors in the post building, like Sting, Denzel Washington and head of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein.

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    • GP
      GP  •  7 days ago
      Gee....and I had to borrow 25 grand to attend college. I'm sure I went wrong somewhere.
    • susan dejohnette
      susan dejohnette  •  Richardson, Texas  •  7 days ago
      I guess it would be an insult to the one percenter's ego--- to bargain for 87 mil.
    • Pam
      Pam  •  Toluca, Illinois  •  9 days ago
      I farm. Fertilizer costs have doubled every 6 years for a long time now. What use to cost me $30 an acre now costs $300 an acre. It is really nice to see where the profits are reinvested. If the cost of fertilizer wasn't so high I would use more and we would have lots more product . That means cheaper food for us all. But Hey-straw is cheaper and grass is free live on a farm and get all three.
      • greg w
        greg w 9 days ago
        And your farm land has went up in price, your products have went up in price, can't say all, but I hunt a lot of farmers' land and I can say they ain't doing bad.....according to them, still paying down debt, still making improvements, that ain't half bad, judging by the glint in their eyes, still making profits.
      • l g
        l g 9 days ago
        Greg; her point is that it's more difficult to eek out a simple existence even as a farmer! I can appreciate her comment. The reason many food costs are so much higher is the subsidies for corn ethanol; FAILED policy!
      • master mind
        master mind 9 days ago
        i get fertilizer for free... i know a lot of farmers...
    • Gunny
      Gunny  •  7 days ago
      Must be nice to have money. i would if those in dc didn't keep taken it.
    • hoswed
      hoswed  •  Beaverton, Oregon  •  11 days ago
      blyat stupid ruski
      • Y.Golynsky
        Y.Golynsky 9 days ago
        russki are not stupid!!!!!!! Look at yourself??? Who is stupid? Oh, yes... YOU ARE!!
      • Missy Laviolette
        Missy Laviolette 9 days ago
        im jealous, heh my apartment costs $300/month, lol...
      • WELLNOW
        WELLNOW 9 days ago
        I bet the daughter is hot...too bad i don't play tennis.
    • Scott
      Scott  •  9 days ago
      With spending habits like that, I think its fair to say that some of the 1 percenters aren't going to be there much longer. The media did another story about some Formula 1 heiresses who went on a real estate shopping spree in Florida.
      • greg w
        greg w 9 days ago
        This 1% owns fertilizer.....he will stay a 1%
      • Katie
        Katie 9 days ago
        If everyone keeps running around saying "money isn't everything", "spoiled this arrogant that", why keep talking about the 1%? I'll be honest and say I'm jealous of their money, but I'm still ok with where I am... all that hating is jealousy. Be happy with your own life and stop caring so much about what the wealthy are doing. Not everyone can be wealthy. If they were, wealthy wouldn't exist.
      • A Yahoo! User 9 days ago
        You are 100% right, the vast majority of their spending habbits are money generating ones. We need to concentrate on are own issues and love ourselves. Most likely I will never be a Billionare and I accept that. on the other hand, I will try my darn best two achieve success. no matter what. Success is not only about monetary achivemment but acomplishing goals, what ever they are.
    • Reyna Gutierrez
      Reyna Gutierrez  •  9 days ago
      I'm glad for someone that has been blessed with such good fortune.It gives me hope that I may not be homeless soon due to a foreclosure
    • l g
      l g  •  9 days ago
      A billionaire spending 88M; are we supposed to be impressed? The wealthy are that way cause they take everyone's money. Most of mankind are not so greedy.
      • Gene S
        Gene S 9 days ago
        how much did they take from you?
      • Concerned
        Concerned 9 days ago
        Why get mad at them? They don't make the rules they just know how to use them for their highest good. Not everyone who is wealthy steals from people. Talk about drama. That is a ridiculously generalized statement. If you didn't care about what they were doing, then why did you read the article? They can do whatever they want with their money just like you.
      • Ideas1234
        Ideas1234 9 days ago
        hey I spend all the money I make every month. Lets talk when these 1% spend all the money they make.
    • Gene S
      Gene S  •  9 days ago
      It's simply the fact that it was an apartment bought by (or for?) a 22-year old that bothers everyone. This guy has a lot of money and needs to invest it...preferrably outside of Russia. A high-end apartment in Manhattan is a very sound investment. So it's not idle all the time, his daughter will occassionally sleep there. Why is this such a big deal? A foreigner injected 100 mil into our economy, we should all be happy, shouldn't we? Would you rather he spent the money in Switzerland or England....or some islands?
      • master mind
        master mind 9 days ago
        you are spot on, but a 22 year old who has everything haned to them will never be grounded... i think that is the issue...
      • T
        T 8 days ago
        Netflix has a movie you ALL should watch called, "DIRT.....THE MOVIE" if we all took better care of our soil in the first place we wouldn't need to buy all those fertilizers. Mother Earth.
      • Shadd
        Shadd 8 days ago
        I'm sure he took the west view of fair pay and safe working conditions while doing it to. He spent a 100 mill in our economy. please Hes a dipshit and was handed the industry by a communist government. Tell me the american farmer that would buy his daughter a 88 mill dollar crash pad. Her daddy never worked hard a day in his life.
    • TheBottomLine
      TheBottomLine  •  8 days ago
      When the elite become too decadent, it is sign society is on the decline.
    • P.B. Fairchild VII
      P.B. Fairchild VII  •  Dubai, United Arab Emirates  •  9 days ago
      She doesn't own anything. Her father does.
    • Nancy
      Nancy  •  9 days ago
      Gee, for that amt of money, we could control the problems of hungar and homlessness..sorry, just thinking PRACTICAL!!!!!!
    • publius
      publius  •  East Brunswick, New Jersey  •  8 days ago
      Oppulence................she has it.
    • Plasma Pinches
      Plasma Pinches  •  9 days ago
      Meanwhile, 90% of Russian and Jewish immigrants live in Section 8 subsidized housing and reap the benefits of SSI, Medicaid, foodstamps, SCRIE, DRIE, etc.
    • Plasma Pinches
      Plasma Pinches  •  9 days ago
      Great public relations tactic! Now all the Russians will defect to the U.S. as they have been doing for the past decade.
    • Plasma Pinches
      Plasma Pinches  •  9 days ago
      Checkmate! Russia wins all of the U.S.
    • Plasma Pinches
      Plasma Pinches  •  9 days ago
      Russia is 3x the size of the U.S. I guess that wasn't good enough for her.
    • Michael
      Michael  •  Corona, California  •  9 days ago
      is she going to pay her student loan
    • SE
      SE  •  9 days ago
      Fertilizer. the #1 killer in America!
    • steve
      steve  •  Troy, Michigan  •  9 days ago
      Its like the rich love to brag about the higher they pay for something.....I have a pet rock, its a one of a kind, willing to sell at auction, starting bid 100 million..........and if you act now I'll throw in a one of a kind stick!!!
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