Mittal, Abramovich top Britain’s rich list
December 7, 2006LONDON (AFP) - Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Russian businessman Roman Abramovich come first and second in a newspaper’s list of the richest people living in Britain.
Mittal is worth 13.2 billion pounds (19.5 billion euros, 25.9 billion dollars), while Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, has 10.8 billion pounds, up from 7.5 billion last year, the Sunday Times Rich List showed Wednesday.
The list shows that the combined wealth of those on the list has shot up in the last year — it is now 406 billion pounds, up over 18 percent from 343 billion pounds last year.
The benchmark for entering the top 5,000 is five and a half million pounds.
Other notable figures on the list include footballer David and Victoria Beckham, with a combined wealth of 87 million pounds, while Beatles legend Sir
Paul McCartney is worth 825 million pounds.
But list compilers warn he could fall out of the top 100 for the first time if he loses up to 200 million pounds in a divorce battle with estranged wife Heather Mills McCartney, as some pundits have predicted.
