Tetra Pak Heir Hans Rausing buys Roman Abramovich’s £28.5million Chelsea …

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  • Hans Rausing, 50, is set to move from his Belgravia mansion
  • Tetra Pak heir worth £4.4bn is said to have paid in cash for Chelsea home
  • The £70m Belgravia town house where wife Eva was found will go on sale

By
Shari Miller


PUBLISHED:

16:25 GMT, 23 March 2014


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UPDATED:

17:24 GMT, 23 March 2014

Super-rich Hans Rausing will move from his Belgravia mansion – where his wife tragically died from a drug overdose two years ago – after snapping up Roman Abramovich’s luxury home in Chelsea for £28.5million.

The 50-year-old heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, worth around £4.4bn, is said to have paid in cash for the grade II-listed building in Cheyne Walk last December.

Now he has submitted plans for remodelling works, which will include landscaped gardens, servants’ quarters and a new entrance.

The £100m million Cheyne Walk, house Abramovich was planning to to create near the Chelsea Football Club

New beginnings: The luxury pad in Cheyne Walk which Hans Rausing has bought for £28.5m from Abramovich

According to documents submitted to Kensington and Chelsea council, Rausing will employ garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd to replant the grounds.

The property comprises several conjoined houses, including a grade II listed Georgian town house and a grade II* listed mansion dating from the 1670s.

Chelsea owner Abramovich and his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova bought the mansion for £25m in 2011.

They submitted plans for a lavish £10m basement development, but these were met with fierece opposition from local residents.

Previous occupants of the sprawling mansion, which boasts a 50ft drawing room overlooking Battersea Bridge, include late Conservative minister Paul Channon and artist James Whistler.

The exclusive address will provide a fresh start for Rausing away from his £70m town house in Belgravia, where police discovered the decomposing remains of his American wife during a drugs raid in July 2012.

She had died from an overdose, but Rausing had hidden her body for two months while maintaining a desperate pretence to servants that she was still alive.

Addiction: The society couple had allowed their 50-room Chelsea mansion to fall into disrepair and lived in a small part of the property before Mrs Rausing's death in May last year

Tragic: Rausing pictured with wife Eva, prior to her death from a drugs overdose in 2012

Rausing was convicted last July of preventing her lawful burial and handed a ten-month suspended jail term.

The judge at Isleworth Crown Court said Rausing was a tragic warning of the ‘utterly destructive’ effects of drug abuse.

Rausing – whose Swedish grandfather founded the lucrative food packaging firm in 1951 – met Eva Kemeny while they were both enrolled on a drugs rehabilitation programme.

They married in 1992 and had four children, but both struggled with their addictions.

Moving on: Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova, originally bought the mansion in 2011 for £25m

Moving on: Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova, originally bought the mansion in 2011 for £25m

In July 2012 Rausing was stopped by police and arrested for possession of class A drugs.

It was during a subsequent raid on his home that police made their grim discovery of his wife’s body.

Following his trial, Rausing moved out of his Belgravia house to undergo a rehabilitation programme at a private clinic.

There was speculation he would move back in following redevelopment work for a subterranean swimming pool, wine cellar and cigar room.

However, sources say it will be put for sale later this year.


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mmickk,

BLACKBURN, United Kingdom,

22 hours ago

How the other half live buys a house for 28.5m and puts sticky note on fridge reminder must sell the old house at some point for 70m!!!

La Lune,

Lunar Landscape,

22 hours ago

Money does not buy you happiness!

– Sandy Brown, London,*********Only the rich or deluded think that! It buys you freedom; up to you how you use it

The Dog Lady,

Bath, United Kingdom,

23 hours ago

I happen to know that he is an extremely generous philanthropist who gives away millions to charities every year so before you judge him perhaps you might bear this in mind. He continues to help others in a way that he can despite fighting his own demons.

dattel,

London,

23 hours ago

How much good work he could do with all this silly money? Helping addicts with no roof over their heads for example

tangerinedream,

Dry Heat, United States,

23 hours ago

Even the rich have problems….but they can afford to up and move house when they want, rather than having to hang around and tough it out…

amy lou lou,

Edinburgh,

23 hours ago

That was a really tragic story. I remember reading it sometime ago. I hope this enables him to start to moving on

Mary H,

Aylesbury,

23 hours ago

I personally would have wanted to download to something smaller, regardless of how much money I had. I wouldn’t feel comfortable living alone in a huge place. I would be nervous to say the least. Just my opinion.

acynic,

Lancs,

1 day ago

this is what is wrong with the world as people starve or die because money not there for trestment.
this is not the politics of envy.but fairness.

Gladtobeme,

London, United Kingdom,

1 day ago

I understand that this family does have charitable foundations etc, but he needs to give more of his money away, no-one needs that level of money, it becomes eventually meaningless to the possessor unless you do smething good with it.

n100jnt,

glasgow, United Kingdom,

1 day ago

Very interesting scenario !! great business for the ” agents ” though – well done chaps , wonder what vintage they had a toast with on completion??

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