43 Facts About Leonard Blavatnik

Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik was born on June 14,1957; Odessa, Soviet Ukraine and is a British-American business magnate and philanthropist of Ukrainian Jewish origin.

In 2017, Leonard Blavatnik received a knighthood for services to philanthropy.

Leonard Blavatnik made his initial fortune after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the privatization of state-owned aluminum and oil assets.

Leonard Blavatnik owns most of Warner Music Group and has stakes in several publicly traded assets via his privately held US company Access Industries Holdings.

Leonard Blavatnik was born in 1957 in Odessa, then in the Ukrainian SSR and part of the Soviet Union, to a Jewish family.

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Leonard Blavatnik's parents moved to Yaroslavl, a Russian city north of Moscow, when Leonard Blavatnik was a child.

Leonard Blavatnik attended Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, but did not complete his coursework due to the family's request for emigration visas.

At Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, Leonard Blavatnik became close friends with Viktor Vekselberg, another Ukrainian Jew.

Leonard Blavatnik's family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States of America in 1978, and he received a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1981 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1989.

In 1986, Leonard Blavatnik founded the holding company, Access Industries Holdings, of which he is chairman and president.

Leonard Blavatnik began his business career by accumulating shares in aluminum smelters in the period of privatisation that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Leonard Blavatnik did this via his holding company, Access Industries.

Leonard Blavatnik has been described as a victor in Russia's "aluminum wars".

Leonard Blavatnik made his wealth through the acquisition of these commodities.

Leonard Blavatnik was a board member of Rusal from 2007 to 2016.

Leonard Blavatnik invested in regional electricity generating stations, which they used to supply power to their energy-intensive aluminium businesses.

In 1999, Leonard Blavatnik sought to obtain the competing oil company Chernogorneft, which was being auctioned off.

In 2016, Leonard Blavatnik launched Access Entertainment, which bought James Packer's stake in RatPac Entertainment and a 24.

In 2017, Blatvatnik was named as possible purchaser of the publisher Time Inc Leonard Blavatnik prepared the bid with Edgar "Ed" Bronfman Jr, the former chief executive of Warner Music.

Leonard Blavatnik owns AI Film, the independent film and production company that backed Lee Daniels' film The Butler and the summer 2015 release Mr Holmes.

Leonard Blavatnik was an early investor in Rocket Internet and Beats Music, helped finance fashion designer Tory Burch, and, in 2013, paid $115 million for wireless spectrum in Norway.

Leonard Blavatnik has been the owner of DAZN Group since 2014, when Access Industries increased its stake in the company from 42.

Leonard Blavatnik is part of Perform Group, a UK based sports media company owned by Len Blavatnik's Access Industries.

Leonard Blavatnik is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Centre for International Business and Management at Cambridge University, a member of the board of Dean's Advisors at the Harvard Business School, a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and a member of the academic board at Tel Aviv University.

Leonard Blavatnik indicated the possibility of increasing his benefaction up to £100 million over time.

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In 2011, Leonard Blavatnik donated more than £50 million to the Tate Modern gallery in London – the largest donation in the gallery's history.

In 2014, Leonard Blavatnik became a trustee of Carnegie Hall in New York City.

In 2016, Leonard Blavatnik funded a new hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum redevelopment.

Leonard Blavatnik loaned the project an artwork by Damien Hirst titled "Gone But Not Forgotten".

Leonard Blavatnik received the 2017 Samuel Johnson Medal from the school.

In December 2020, Leonard Blavatnik made a donation of £10 million towards the renovation of the Courtauld Institute of Art.

In December 2021, Leonard Blavatnik donated half of the £15 million required to prevent the sale and dispersal of the Honresfield Library on the open market.

In February 2022, Leonard Blavatnik made a multi-million pound contribution to the Imperial War Museum in London.

In 2011, Leonard Blavatnik donated to both President Barack Obama and his GOP rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

In February 2016, Leonard Blavatnik donated over $1 million to an anti-Donald Trump GOP group.

Leonard Blavatnik donated $1 million to the committee for the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Since April 2016, Leonard Blavatnik contributed $383,000 to the Republican National Committee and $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund; he made a donation to Trump's legal fund.

Leonard Blavatnik donated $5,200 to the Pete Buttigieg 2020 presidential campaign and $5,600 to the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.

Leonard Blavatnik owns a Grade II listed building on "the most expensive street in the world", Kensington Palace Gardens, which is valued at £200 million.

Leonard Blavatnik has a residence in Manhattan valued at more than $250 million.

Leonard Blavatnik is a friend of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a supporter of Donald Trump.

Leonard Blavatnik is a longtime friend and business partner of Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia's richest men, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and some other Russia-associated oligarchs being under Western sanctions for support of totalitarian regimes and criminal activities.

Leonard Blavatnik was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to philanthropy.