The online value of High 200 collector, businessman and artwork patron Leonard Blavatnik has fallen by greater than £3.5 billion ($470 billion) within the final yr, based on the most recent version of the Sunday Times’s “Rich List.”
The annual ranking of the wealthiest people based in the UK confirmed Blavatnik’s internet value fell to £25.725 billion ($34.4 billion) final yr, inflicting his rating to fall one spot to #3. The Ukrainian businessman made his cash from early investments in aluminum and vitality corporations as they have been being privatized through the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Blavatnik’s wealth additionally comes from the sale of his stake in a Russian oil company, TNK-BP, for $7 billion, in addition to the acquisition of Warner Music for $3.3 billion in 2011.
In 2017, Blavatnik donated £50 million to the Tate Modern for its new extension, which was renamed the Blavatnik Constructing. The patron additionally donated £10 million through his family foundation to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London for its galleries, academic and social areas in 2020.
The Sunday Instances’s annual rating for 2025 included greater than a dozen collectors from ARTnews‘s 2024 Top 200 Collectors list, together with British industrial designer James Dyson (£20.8 billion, #4), Israeli businessman Idan Ofer (£20.1 billion, #5), Russian businessman and oligarch Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (£7.7 billion, #24), British hedge fund supervisor Alan Howard (£2.5 billion, #71), and Bahrana-Emirati businessman Mohammed Mahdi al-Tajir (£1.6 billion, #103).
Along with rating #5, Ofer was famous as one of many high 5 people whose wealth rose probably the most within the final yr, a rise of £5.161 billion.
The Sunday Instances checklist additionally included Simon Reuben, the daddy of High 200 collector Lisa Reuben; John Fredriksen, the daddy of High 200 collectors Cecilie and Kathrine Fredriksen; Sri Prakash Lohia, the husband of High 200 collector Aarti Lohia; Lakshmi Mittal and Household; musician Elton John; and former Christie’s stakeholder Joe Lewis.
In 2012, Mittal, a metal magnate, contributed £19.2 million (about $30 million) of the £22.7 million price of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower. The sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, rose 377 ft to an statement platform and on the time, became Britain’s tallest sculpture, after which became a slide in 2015. The Mittal household’s namesake South Asian Institute at Harvard University additionally gives artist fellowships, exhibitions, and conservation applications.
John beforehand appeared on the ARTnews High 200 Collectors checklist however sold a large portion of his collection through several single-owner sales at Christie’s for $20.5 million final February.
Lewis beforehand appeared on the ARTnews High 200 collectors checklist. Final yr, he plead responsible to conspiracy and insider buying and selling, leading to a US judge ordering the Tavistock Group founder to pay a fine of $5 million and serve three years of probation.
The Instances additionally famous the 2025 version was “one of many hardest to compile attributable to Trump’s tariffs and the following stock market turbulence” and “the most important fall within the variety of UK billionaires within the Wealthy Record’s historical past. The entry stage flatlines at £350 million—one other indicator of a subdued yr.”
Blavatnik has misplaced greater than $2 billion this yr, reducing his internet value to $37.2 billion, based on knowledge from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index based mostly on the shut of buying and selling in New York on Might 15.
Federal Election Fee knowledge additionally confirmed Blavatnik donated $293,588 to Republican candidates, events and Tremendous PACs for the 2024 election, together with $79,700 to the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee. By comparability, he donated $82,700 to Democratic candidates, events, and Tremendous PACs throughout the identical interval.
