Britain’s richest resident owns a music label
mainNot because he loves music, necessarily. Owning a record label no longer makes you rich.
But Warner owner Len Blavatnik, 57, who tops the Sunday Times Rich List with £13.17 billion, is known to have some cultural interests. He was among four backers, for instance, of the movie Woman in Gold, a tale of post-Nazi art restitution, and he is said to be a huge fan of Fiddler on the Roof.
He bought Warner for $3.3bn, a rather small part of his fortune, and goes around telling people, ‘I bought a record company at the wrong time.’ His ambition for Warner: ‘Even though it’s the music business, it’s still business.’
Born in Odessa, he described his boyhood in Russia as ‘this little Jewish kid, walking around with a violin case’.
Read full New Yorker profile here.
Someone who exploited the chaos at the fall of the Soviet Union for his own ends, is despicable. And owning so much money, in these times – is grotesk.
Jealous much ?