Ekaterina Rybolovleva

Ekaterina Dmitrievna Rybolovleva (born June 4, 1989, Perm, Russia) is a businesswoman, equestrian and socialite. She is the daughter of Russian entrepreneur, Dmitry Rybolovlev. A keen competitor in equestrian competitions around the world, she is also the owner of several businesses and properties, including those on the islands of Skorpios and Sparti. Ekaterina Rybolovleva owned football club AS Monaco FC via a trust, however, her father was the president.

After many years of instruction, on 17 March 2007 Rybolovleva took part in the Officiel d’Evordes showjumping competition, where she placed in the first round R2/L2. In August 2007, she participated in a show jumping competition in Verbier, where she took the third position R3/M. In 2008, she placed in the first round E3/M1 in the Officiel d’Evordes, riding her mare, Eole Perruques.

She first participated in the Gucci Masters in 2009, and became a winner in December 2010, with Malin Baryard-Johnsson after performing to the music of Boney M's. Rasputin. In 2011, she participated in the new Gucci Masters with Kevin Staut, with the choreography to Moulin Rouge.

In 2011, a trust acting in the interest of Rybolovleva acquired a 627 square meter (6,700 square feet) apartment in New York for $88 million. The price for the penthouse apartment at 15 Central Park West was, at the time of the transaction, a record for the city.

The apartment has served as Rybolovleva's home in the US whenever she attended classes at Harvard Extension School.

In 2013, a company belonging to a trust acting in the interest of Rybolovleva completed the purchase of a group of companies formerly owned by Athina Onassis, the granddaughter of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Amongst the assets of this group of companies were the islands of Skorpios and Sparti. The island of Skorpios was made famous by Aristotle Onassis’s wedding to Jackie Kennedy there in 1968. Rybolovleva has said that she views the acquisition of the islands as a “long-term financial investment” which she plans to develop using “environmentally friendly technology” Sparti is an uninhabited island 2 km north of Skorpios.

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