India's Richest Man Moves Into Billion-Dollar Home

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 14th 2010 at 11:00PM

Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man and the man who is predicted to be the world's richest man by 2014, has finally moved his family into the $1 billion Mumbai skyscraper he has been building as a private residence. The home, which is named Antilla after a legendary island once believed to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, has 27 stories. Our sibling blog Housing Watch reports that the 53-year-old tycoon's new home is larger than the Palace of Versailles. It has underground parking for 160 cars, three helicopter pads and a theater that seats 50. The first few floors are given over to garage space and housing for staff takes up much of the middle section. The home also has a ballroom, several lounges, a health club, a dance studio and an elevated garden.

The home has a total of 400,000 square feet of space, room enough for Ambani, his wife Nita, their three children, his mother and plenty of household help. Business Insider has renderings from Hirsch Bedner Associates which show a home that looks more like one of the luxury hotels the firm has designed.

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Jonathan Lien Oct 14th 2010 11:40PM

With all that money, you would think he would get some cosmetic dentistry.

adesertking Oct 15th 2010 1:10AM

I agree, He could eat corn through a picket fence. Maybe hairplugs and a new face while he is at it.

hey dude7 Oct 15th 2010 1:28AM

Aside from the children`s comments..

When some one reports 70 million, 2-3 years ago they become 2-300 million, then when some irresponsible reporters wanna round it off to the next big number 1 billion sounds like a winner...so it becomes a billion, no one has proof that is half that even...

Now to the stupid reckless "an the man that is predicted to be ...."
Same bunch of dumb asses never saw Carlos Slim becoming number one, as a matter of record they predicted (Carlos Slim) dropping from the top 25 when he sold Nextel and a few other piles of stock....

So there, fixing the world one post @ the time...

Dhiram Oct 15th 2010 2:49AM

Just the same way Enron and Worldcom were on the Fortune 500 list and disappeared.

And Lehman brothers too.

Fixing the world one post @ the time.

Mikki Oct 15th 2010 11:10PM

Another McMansion only now this one is in a third world country. People like him make me vomit.

He could have taken that $1 billion dollars and improved the sanitation system and clean water supply that would benefit his countrymen/women/children.

He must not believe in karma! He should! What goes around comes around!

He'll get his, big time.

Mikki Oct 15th 2010 11:13PM

Another McMansion only now this one is in a third world country.
People like him make me vomit.

He could have taken that $1 billion dollars and improved the
sanitation system and clean water supply that would benefit his
countrymen/women/children.

He must not believe in karma! He should! What goes around comes
around!

He'll get his, big time