Russian Billionaire Buys 4th Upper East Side Townhouse: Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A Russian oligarch amassing land on the Upper East Side has purchased his fourth contiguous townhouse on East 75th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues, the New York Post first reported.

Roman Abramovich, who made an estimated $9.6 billion fortune in the Russian steel industry, recently purchased 9 E. 75th St., the Post reported. Abramovich now owns 9, 11, 13 and 15 E. 75th St. and plans to combine at least three of the homes into a megamansion, the Post reported.

The East 75th Street home sold for $28.7 million in a deal that closed in June, according to public real estate records. Real estate records to not directly tire Abramovich to the purchase — the "buyer" is listed as an anonymous entity named 9 East 75th Street LLC — but a source close to the deal confirmed with the Post that the Russian is the buyer.

Abramovich had planned to create a three-townhouse mansion out of 11, 13 and 15 E. 75th St., but now favors a combination of 9, 11 and 13 E. 75th Street, a source told the Post.

"It will look better and bring a more balanced facade to the street — it will have more symmetry," the source told the Post.

Read the full New York Post report here.

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