Dmitry Rybolovlev

Dmitry Rybolovlev
Dmitry Rybolovlev, 2012
Native name	Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев
Born	Dmitry Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev (1966-11-22) 22 November 1966 (age 50) Perm, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Citizenship	Russian
Net worth	US$7.7 billion (September 2016)
Board member of	Owner of AS Monaco FC

Dmitry Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev (Russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев; Russian pronunciation: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪvʲɪtɕ rɨbɐˈlovlʲɪf], roughly rib-uh-LOHV-liff); born 22 November 1966) is a Russian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Rybolovlev owned the potash producer Uralkali and, in 2011, became the majority owner and President of Monaco's football club AS Monaco. His daughter, Ekaterina Rybolovleva, is a well known socialite.

In 2015, Rybolovlev was ranked 156th on Forbes's list of billionaires with a net worth of $8.5 billion. In May 2014, a Swiss court ordered him to pay over $4.5 billion to his former wife Elena, which was believed to be the most expensive divorce settlement in history. In June 2015, it was announced that Rybolovlev had won his appeal against the 2014 judgement and that the settlement to be made to his former wife was reduced to approximately 564 million Swiss francs.

On October 20, 2015, Dmitry and Elena announced they had reached an amicable settlement of their divorce, and that all legal actions in relation to the case would cease. Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Rybolovlev was born in 1966. Rybolovlev's parents were doctors and he himself graduated from the Perm Medical Institute as a cardiologist in 1990. He then started to work in the cardiology emergency service. During his student years, Rybolovlev married Elena, one of his fellow students, and in 1989 their first daughter Ekaterina was born. In the late 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev had started the perestroika that eventually led to the break-up of the Soviet Union and the great economic shocks that followed. During this time Rybolovlev entered the business world.