Roman Abramovich adds $75MILLION Fifth Avenue mansion with eight bedrooms and a ballroom to his exclusive property portfolio

He owns the world's largest yacht, Chelsea soccer team, a string of homes in London, Paris and St Barts, and now Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a New York mansion.



The 46-year-old steel magnate has just bought a Fifth Avenue mansion in New York city for $75 million.



Abramovich, who is worth $10.2 billion, will share the eight-bedroom home with Dasha Zhukova, the mother of his two youngest children.



Moving in: Billionaire Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova are buying a Fifth Avenue home

Prime position: The Fifth Avenue property overlooks Central Park

He set a new record for the highest amount ever paid for a co-op in the city, when he sealed the multi-million-dollar property deal, according to the New York Post .



Finished in 1896, the luxurious Fifth Avenue building was once described as 'about as close to Versailles as residential New York has to offer'.

The building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style and built for a coal baron called Joseph Berwind, overlooks Central Park zoo and has a full-time doorman, according to Street Easy .



Abramovich's latest home includes a penthouse, triplex and maisonette in the decadent building which is made up of five apartments.

Exclusive: The Fifth Avenue home was built for a coal tycoon in the 1890s

Ornate: The Fifth Avenue building is based on an Italian Renaissance design

The sellers had been trying to buy up all the apartments to restore the mansion to a single, luxurious home, but tower builder Howard Ronson died before achieving his dream.

He may not have the whole building, but Abramovich will have a 15,080 sq ft home complete with wine cellar, ballroom, ten bathrooms and roof top terrace with views over the park.



'Part of it is buying a dream of eventually owning one of the greatest pieces of real estate of New York, a mansion on Fifth Avenue directly across from one of the better parts of Central Park,' Pam Liebman, president of Corcoran Group, told the Wall Street Journal .

Family: Dasha is the mother of Abramovich's two youngest children

Extravagant: Abramovich owns the world's largest yacht, Eclipse, which cost him $250 million

Paradise: The billionaire also has a luxury home in St Barts, where he holds lavish New Year's Eve parties

City living: Abramovich also owns a sprawling London mansion

Many original features of the grand home remain, including gilded flowers, and ornate wood carvings and plasterwork.



Interior designer Alberto Pinto is behind the makeover of the triplex, which has a 34ft ballroom with Louis XV-style plaster ceilings and ornate angels carved over the fireplace.

