She may also be the most expensive baby delivery ever, if you add in the boat costs. But she’s not exactly, as some have tongue-in-cheekily reported, an “anchor baby.” At least not more than in the nautical sense.
For the past two months, Zhukova and Abramovich have been awaiting the birth of their daughter aboard the Russian steel tycoon’s approximately $500 million, 533-foot yacht, Eclipse, which he docked in the Hudson River back in February. When it was time to deliver their child (Abramovich’s 7th), 31-year-old Zhukova simply popped over to New York Presbyterian Hospital.
American citizenship: free. And it would have been no matter what. The Daily Mail reports that the baby’s mother actually already had an American passport; Zhukova spent many of her growing-up years in Los Angeles, living with her mother, a UCLA microbiologist.
The cost for delivering little Leah Lou on American soil topped several hundred million, by our estimates. That tally includes the $250 million price tag for Eclipse, which Abramovich purchased in 2010, plus operating and docking fees. While we don’t have an exact price tag for how much Abramovich has spent to sit on a boat in the Hudson, my colleague Luisa Kroll reported that Darwin Deason charters his own yacht for $400,000 a week, not including expenses like tipping, food, and fuel. Forbes contributor Tim Thomas, editor of Boat International, estimates that running costs for Abramovich’s yacht are likely upwards of half a million per week, although those numbers are rough.
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